My father, Arthur, and my uncle, William Frank, farmed all of their lives with International Harvester Farmall tractors. Although there was also a dealer in Ida at the time, most of their business for tractors and equipment went to Salenbien Brothers on the east side of Dundee.

The Dundee Feeds or the feed mill, was located on Tecumseh street on the west side of Dundee. When I was raising pigs as a teenager, my dad, Arthur Heiden, would take to me here to get feed. His cousin, Henry "Heinie" Heiden (right) worked here and we would go there on a Saturday morning when they had donuts and coffee in the office.

I was taking vocational agriculture classes at school so I always had a formula made out of the number of pounds of corn, protein mix and other ingredients to get just the right protein and carbohydrate percentages. After I got my bags of feed and left, I suspect they had a good laugh and rolled their eyeballs over the detail in my order.

We always had a small flock of chickens in our coops so that we could get fresh eggs and the main course for many a Sunday dinner. In the spring, you would go into Dundee to the Brewer Hatchery and buy chicks which you would nurse along under a small metal structure that had heat lamps to keep them warm

Walter Berns helped out with testing of chick one year. The article shown below appeared in the Dundee Reporter weekly newspaper. That's Walter, second from the left..

This Ford tractor dealership was located on Monroe Street just east of the bridge of the River Raisin. The American Motors dealership was also located at the site but I do not remember which one came first.

In the 1950s it was still common to have your milk delivered to your house by the milkman. Note the two digit phone number.

This is a drawing of a house that stood on the west edge of Dundee until it was torn down in the 1970s. It was an old, dilapidated structure which was noted or notorious for having a bunch of goats crawling around all the time.