Changes

This once busy farmstead would bring a tear to the eye of the proud farmer who hitched his manure spreader behind a team of horses. It was a modern machine, with steel sides instead of wood, and it was probably pulled by a tractor within a few years of its delivery to this dairy farm. If this farmer had sons, they probably fought in WWII or Korea, and postwar changes doomed this dairy operation. The government grain bin in the background is a testament to the growing dependency on 'programs.'

The dairy barn is ready to be burned, and the fire will crumble the mortar in the silos, bringing them down.

This farm even had a producing oil well at one time. These tanks are from the early years of the Illinois oil fields, and are made of redwood.