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A. Varesano interviewing Bertha Falatko
8/17/72
Tape 25-2

BF Most of them
AV And this one only held one cow.
BF That's right.
AV Did many people around here have two cows?
BF Some of them did, yes. I think Mrs. Machella used to have too cows. She used to sell milk. We didn't sell much milk. We kept most of the milk for ourselves.
AV So, her stable was bigger? Maybe about.....
BF Well, we could hold, no, her stable wasn't any bigger. We could have two cows in out stable for that matter. But we just kept the one cow.
AV What else did people usually store in the cow stable, besides their hay and feed?
BF I don't know of anything else.
AV And. how about this hog coop? What did that look like?
BF Oh, there was nothing in the hog coop. That was small, too, smaller than a chicken coop. It wasn't quite as high.
AV How high was it?
BF About two yards, I guess, high.
AV Two feet?
BF Two yards.
AV That's six feet high?
BF That's not so high.
AV Ah, six feet high...
Bf Would be what, about like that, wouldn't it? That's about, I guess that would be about a yard and a half high. I wouldn't be any higher than that. And that was nothing else inside that pig coop. Just put some straw or something for the winter, I don't know. They had nothing else inside.
AV It was just a shell... and how wide, how big was the floor?
BF Oh, I don't know just how big it--I wasn't interested in those things then! I was just a small girl. I know they had coops and things, but I wouldn't know exactly what the neasurements are.
AV Was it a square, or more of a rectangle?
BF More of a square.
AV So, maybe it was about four square feet?
BF Could be. It could be, yes. Depended on how many hogs you had. We usually had around three and four. Mostly three.
AV And then, how large was the space around it, for the hogs, their yard, the hog yard?
BF Well, their yard would be about half the length of this room.
AV Five or six feet.
BF Yes, about that. Five or six feet.
AV.And fifteen feet long?
BF No, not fifteen feet, I wouldn't say fifteen. I would say, maybe it would be about fifteen, yes it would.
AV And that was their space, that they had?
BF Um-hum.
AV What about the chickens? How large was the space around the chicken coup?
BF Well, theirs was a little bit larger than that, than the pig space.
AV Would you say it was maybe like fifteen by twenty feet?
BF That would be more like it, yeah.
AV Kind of a square, or rectangle?
BF More like a rectangle.
AV And then, the area for the geese. What did the geese coop look like?
BF About the same as the pig, and like a shell.