Bert and Hazel Sisson
Picking bales in 1950
Four generations of horses raised at the farm
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The oldest of the two brothers, Glenn lived his teenage years in the horse era. By the age of eleven, taught by his truly proud teamster father, Glenn was driving a sixhorse hitch and cultivating the Glenn and his grand kids fields. A couple of years later, Glenn was “schooled” well enough to drive a four-horse hitch team sowing the fields which he has done ever since... but the teams of horses faded away and the Sisson family purchased their first gas engine tractor (an International W30) in 1940. Previous to that, the grain was cut and bound with a binder, hand stooked and threshed using horses and a fork. A bit later and if you were lucky, the binder and the threshing machines were motor driven. Mel, the youngest in the family, was never involved in the horse years... it is a part of Glenn’s legacy only. But horses remain for work and pleasure at Royal Angus as the boys check cows daily in the seat of a saddle; working, sorting and moving the herd has always been a pleasant task.
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