Mama Carr – Apple Peddler

I had read on a genealogy site a comment about Mama Carr pedding apples from a buggy.  I asked my mother(Juanita Rush) about that, and this is her response:

This is quite true. She drove two horses (a team) and a wagon, not a buggy. We never owned a buggy. Buggies cost more than we had. A wagon was used on the farm for all sorts of work and also for transportation if you could not afford a car. I rode with Mama many times on what she called her ‘peddling’; trips. I can remember sitting on the seat beside her. She weighed the apples with those little hand scales that hang on the wall at the back of the built in desk in my kitchen.

 She also used those scales to weigh the family babies untll they grew too big. I started to explain how she did it but I will tell you some other time.