After Charles M. Fischer died Reinhold took over the farm, which was just over 100 acres. He practised mixed farming raising beef cattle, pork, chickens dairy (cream) products and selling wheat, apples from two good sized orchids. Apples were sold at the farm and also at the Kitchener farmers market. He employed a farm hand to assist with the chores. In the early days of farming all field work was done with teams of horses. The first tractor was a steel rimmed Fordson, followed by a Massey- Harris, then aother Massey 44 and a smaller International Farmall. In the late 1940's horses were used sparingly, and many implements were converted over to tractor operation. The grain harvest was mostly handled via a binder which spit out sheves that were stooked, often late into the evening under the harvest moon. When the stooks were good and dry they were either hauled into the barn to be threshed during the winter or as was the practise during the 1940's the stookes were hauled to the barn and threshed a load at a time. The aerial view of the farm shows the Massey - Harris 44 with a drive belt into the barn where the threshing machine was located. Reinhold also did custom threshing and hay/straw bailing for neighbours.
After the farm was sold to a developer Reinhold continued to help out on a neighbours farm (actually where his Grandfather George farmed). He enjoyed being out in the fresh air driving a tractor.
Rose and husband Reinhold attened the Kitchener farmers market for almost fourty years. Rose had three large vegtable gardens, numerous perenial beds, strawberry and raspberry plantings. In the gardens she grew vegtables for their own use and also for sale at the market. In the spring she had row upon row of tulips and later in the summer galdiolus. These flowers were cut and taken to market. In the spring and summer months the market was open Wednesday and Saturdays, while in the winter it only opened on Saturdays. Chickens (dressed), potatoes, apples, and eggs were the main items sold during the winter months. Even when the roads were impassable due the snow, they tobganed the produce the the highway (now Highland Road) and were picked up by one of Roses' brothers and driven to market. Market normally began around 6 - 6:30 a.m. This meant getting up at 4:a.m., doing the milking, feeding the animals, having something to eat and getting to market for the early birds.
During the depression years eggs sold at two dozen for $0.25, fat cattle were three cents a pound and a 90 pound bag of potatoes was delivered for $0. 25. Following the depression up untill W.W. II it was not unusual for transients to knock on the door asking for a meal and a place to spend the night. They were always accomodated and usually slept on the couch in the kitchen. The transients would have been happy to sleep in the barn, but Reinhold was worried about them smoking and buring down the barn.
Later after the farm was sold they found time to travel around the US and Canada, usually accompanied by Roses brother Leo and wife Dorothy or brother Tony and wife Claire.
Rose and Reinhold retired to a bungalow on Forest Hill Drive (412) in 1964. After Alfred Herzog's (Rose's older brother) wife died he came to live with Rose and Reinhold and lived there until he died.