Dad first went to southern Minnesota and dug potatoes......then he followed the threshing trail through the Dakotas and Montana....in those days it was steam threshers and horse drawn wagons.....then he got word that a guy in Bakersfield California was hiring at a dairy farm......big operation, had three shifts of men working milking cows by hand, 24/7.....they lived in dormitories.....after a year of that he had saved enough money to buy a car, go back to Iowa, marry Mom and start his own dairy farm......