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Davis Family
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Though the years the Davis family raised sheep, hogs, cattle, and angora goats. In the early years they kept horses, as teaming was
important work, especially hauling mine timber for support in the tunnels of the mining industry. Food support for the cattle and other animals required a major portion of the open
area of the ranch to be planted with oats, wheat, barley and other cattle feed. The middle building in the early days was the blacksmiths shop with hand worked bellows for doing the
iron work needed on a large ranch dependent on horses. To the left of the picture stood a metal building which was a grainery.
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When the whole grain, wheat, barley, or oats was to be used for seed, the grain was run through a hand powered cleaner, a box like
machine about five feet high and four feet wide with a crank and moving screens inside that sifted out the weed seeds. This machine was usually stored and used in the grainery.
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The top picture is of the original Joe Davis home constructed before 1900. It burned in 1929 and the rebuilt home is shown below as
it looks today.
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It was always a problem to keep mice and other rodents away from the precious grain. After the grain was grown, harvested, cleaned,
rolled or crushed, sacked and sometimes delivered, it would bring two dollars for each 100 pound sack.
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