The Farm
Women were hired as caretakers for the farm. They grew potatoes, cabbage, carrot and turnip. In the spring the company would get some men to plow the ground, and then several women would set the seeds and weed the gardens during the summer and then harvest the crop in the fall. The vegetables would be used in the company’s cookhouses at their logging camps during the winter logging season. After 1924 the company let the farm grow as grass which was then used to feed the horses. The company shipped in large numbers of horses each fall for use in the woods’ operation. When they weren’t used to haul logs, the company would let them loose and they would eat all the vegetables that were set in the gardens by the women each year. It was anticipated that with the advent of modernization tractors would be brought to replace animals during World War 1. (Some people remarked that it would only be something else the Company would let loose to destroy their gardens.)