close this bookReminiscences as a teenager on a Tuhikaramea farm in the 1930s and 1940s
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Background

Parents, great-grandparents were farming on Tuhikaramea Rd, about 100 acres, between 50 and 60 cows.

Describes situation of farm, nature of farming, mentions peat, swampy land.