Sweeney's Farm

My first job was working on Sweeny's Farm. Mr Sweeney was a bit of an eccentric, he was a lecturer at Monash University, but owned a farm. My brothers and I used to work on the farm on Saturday mornings, and we would keep a note in a little notebook and he would pay us every month or so. I think I started off on about 25 cents an hour. I would do things like house work, cook him lunch, wipe down lemon trees with detergent to get rid of bugs, weed. Sometimes we got to weigh the cows, tag them, freeze brand them, it was always interesting. I took some photos of the old farm.