vrijdag 19 september 2008

More fantastic translation from Google

Sorry! I could not resist this! This is Google's version of the story about the old farmhouse of Bernadet's granddad. So if you don't understand the Dutch in this blog, use Google to give you a perfect translation!

For the farm of my grandfather (and later my uncle and his children) is a sloopvergunning requested. To prevent the demolition hammer with a piece of horticultural history of Heiloo disappears, I asked my father about the history of the farm. The farm was probably built around 1900, the year that my grandfather was born. He started a mixed farm with a few cows, strawberries, apsperges, beans and tulips. Saturday, the farm is about 2 acres of land. The early years were not easy. It was at the beginning of the crisis years and if he had not bought the company, he was probably walk away. It was anything but profitable. The milk was only 3 cents per liter, the peas 4 ct per kilo and a carton of strawberries (2.5 kg) yielded only a quarter on.

It was not easy times. My grandfather and grandmother had 12 children, so there was something earned. In time the crisis was by government or aid given to these firms, not in cash but in kind. Otherwise they would eat or clothes for the children of Buying and that was not the intention. No, you had to return a map and then you got for example a wheelbarrow with a pneumatic tire. This was a whole progress. All these wheelbarrows manure spreading over the country had to be, this was a lot lighter and you could also bring together more. Other "small growers aid" consisted of things such as a manure fork, hoe, pitchfork, etc.

In the stable behind the woonboerderij fit about 6 cows.
Most farmers, as my grandfather had only cows in the winter (These farmers were deliberately backers said). He had in the early period but a couple of cows owned. He borrowed money in the bank for two additional cows. In the spring, then went back to the dealer and the loan was repaid back. The cow he owned had been sold again. There have been at this farm is actually never walked out of cows. I think the ground is too expensive for washing. In the crisis years, my grandfather lost the right to grow tulips. There was an oversupply of tulips, they yielded very little on it. My grandfather therefore decided to halve its tulips construction of 400 AW to 200 AW. Then came the association of growers however bulbs with the measure that all tulips farmers still only half of the year could grow. The kids had to stop completely. My grandfather had therefore decided too early, because now he could therefore have only one quarter of its original volume grow. That he was such a small grower become, that he no longer received authorization. His confidence in this organization had a considerable toll. He thought he was much wronged.

The pump house

The pump house next to the farm was built after the war. The land surrounding the farm was becoming drier, probably by the water from the dunes. The growers tried first by zandafgraving the ground again to get a little less dry. The sand could they lost to contractors for the houses. This brought only temporary relief. Because all neighboring gardeners went to do the same, thus destroying the effect was made. After the war, there was the Marshall Aid for the reconstruction of the Netherlands. Many gardeners in this area have received a subsidy when source store and a pump to buy, so they could irrigate the land. at a given moment, however, there was so much water diverted from that too little water for drinking water remained in the dunes. There was a rule that when the farmers had to start paying for water that they took from the ground. This, however, as they were wrongly, that it was massively rejected. The rule was tacitly abolished. For the drinking water was extra water from the leak through the Zuiderzee, the dunes been inflated.

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