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DG: So your father was farming then.

FN: Yeah well, at that time Dad was able to lease the farm, which was quite a nice farm, but he, he had to do a lot of. In those days there was still those big tree stumps and things that were growing, in the fields and so Dad, my brother was telling me that Dad had cleared all those tree stumps.

DG: So how do you, how do you clear it?

FN: I don't, he said he don't know how in the world he ever did it?

DG: With a horse?

FN: Uh-huh, he cleared the land for growing things. And there was, it was, there were horses. They had horses there.

DG: Did you own any horses?

FN: Well we, from where we moved from the Mt. Vernon area, we had, Dad had a few horses and he brought those and cows, to the farm, to the farm that we moved to northeast of Burlington. And on the Scott farm we lived there for quite a while, but then the Alien Land Law passed and then, see, Japanese weren't able to lease land anymore so then we had to go out, leave it, leave the farm. But in those days it was, Dad raised, I mean while we were on the Scott farm, he raised cattle and thing like that and we were only six or seven years old, but we were milking cows and I don't know how we ever did it really. [Laughs] Those kind of things I, I can still remember. But. And then...

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