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Freeman Clyncke's grandparents came to Colorado in the late 1800s and settled south and east of Boulder. His grandfather and his three brothers farmed and ranched and have run the riding stables in Eldorado Springs for 42 years. He is one of seven children, three of whom still farmed (hay, wheat, barley, corn) and ranched (cattle and horses) at the time of the interview. As children, they milked cows before and after school (until the mid-1950s when his father bought a milking machine) and drove farm equipment. The family raised its own meats and vegetables and sold surplus milk to Watts-Hardy Dairy. The interview also describes social and recreational activities from his childhood, and it ends with a discussion of how farming in Boulder County has become difficult and is getting "squeezed out".