Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

To the Editor,

I was thinking the other day about how much has changed in the sixty or so years that there are memories from. Besides a family trying to raise a big garden and probably a couple of pigs and chickens for eggs and to eat, it was basic survival.

Most farms were on a quarter or maybe an eight of land. There were usually a few milk cows and sheep. Very few people ate much beef because the calves were sold for much needed cash. A few sheep provided a woolcheck in the spring and another for the lambs in the fall.

For some reason there was not a surplus of deer like there is no...