The Bradley farm was located along the main road into town from our rural district. It was a neat and well kept farm with freshly painted buildings and a tidy white fence bordering the road. Mr Bradley was known to be one of the most modern and progressive farmers in the area. The old wooden barn with a hay mow above the stanchions still stood in good repair, but by now it was only used for heifers and calves. Instead, Mr Bradley had constructed a state-of-the-art Surge picture window milking parlor in 1959. Beside the parlor, he had a paved cow yard and a loafing barn. The cows were fed using a new semicircular feed bunk with overhead conveyer from Patz. Two large concrete silos held corn silage and haylage. It was an amazing sight for a young farm boy to see, driving by on occasion during evening milking and seeing the brightly lit interior of the parlor shining out of dark sky. It was very impressive, even though the herd of 40 cows that Mr Bradley milked seems like such a small number these days.
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