[Info-vax] Time change

[David J Dachtera]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 
> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> > David J Dachtera <djesys.no at spam.comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> When I asked some folks recently whose primary income is from farming,
> >> their take was that it was instituted to allow the kids to come home
> >> from school and still have some daylight time to help with the farm
> >> chores: planting in the spring, harvest in the fall.
> >
> > I don't know about that one, but the summer off school that
> > most schools have is supposed to be so that the kids can
> > help on the farm during the summer.  There have been some
> > suggestions for year-round schooling now that most kids don't
> > live on farms.
> >
> > -- glen
> 
> I thought that kids whas only working to sew footballs
> over in Pakistan. Are they also working on US farms ?

Family farms have been a staple of the U.S. countryside since its
inception.

D.J.D.