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Partial Transcript: Making the decision to move to the farm, reasons for doing so, father's youthful experiences on a farm in Russian Poland, location of Racine County farmstead, size of farm description of same, learning farming from neighbors and county agent, being Jewish and choosing livestock, description of livestock on the farm, JDL's mother and the chickens, anecdote on the disappearing rooster and JDL's subsequent distaste for eating chicken, the dogs.
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Partial Transcript: Types of crops grown by farmers in the area, low profitability of these crops, what his father decided to plant, hand work and the cabbage planter, harvesting late cabbage, planting potatoes, hand harvesting of potatoes, working by moonlight at harvest time, haying, techniques and tools.
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Partial Transcript: Experience working at mill in the Old Country, importance of intelligence and will to do work in becoming a successful farmer, worms in the cabbage patch and bugs and farm crops, learning about insecticides from farm periodicals, slowness of communication between neighboring farmers re: technical progress, father's success in fighting pests and his role as adviser to neighbors.
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Partial Transcript: Yiddishkeit, High Holy Days in Milwaukee and the Old People's Home, the Litvisher Shul, Yiddish and English books, Rabbi Schoenfeld and a less-than-literal interpretation of Scripture, difficulties of maintaining Jewish life on the farm, Sabbath difficulties, kosher dietary laws, trivialities of these difficulties.
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Partial Transcript: Kneeland School, on teaching in a one-room school, classes, the slow learner who finally graduates from eighth grade, JDL's teacher, her fine qualities, her teacher's training, on equivalency of rural and Milwaukee schools, JDL's father and the Milwaukee Superintendant of Schools, “conditional admission” to a Milwaukee high school, JDL's success in high school and reflections upon same.