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15. Father and Calves Photograph

15. Father and Calves Photograph of John Jacob & Wilma Rohner — printed p. 81 — recorded September 30, 1990 at Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon). Every printed page has its own permanent link.

Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.

p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.

Provenance

From: #5 John Jacob & Wilma Rohner
Narrator: John Jacob "Jake" Rohner and Wilma "Willie" Rohner
Recorded: September 30, 1990 · Jake Rohner's home, Benton County, Oregon (afternoon)
Interviewer: Bob Zybach
Printed pages: p. 81
Original: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Part III. Printed session note: "The following transcnpt [transcript] was made from an interview with fake [Jake] and Willie at fake's [Jake's] home, during the afternoon of September 30, 1990. After reviewing the initial transcripts, fake [Jake] and Willie provided written corrections and additions. These com,nents [comments] appear throughout the manuscript enclosed in [brackets] and include the initials of the person that has provided the information." Both narrators present; speakers are marked in the printed text as [JAKE] and [WILMA]. A note "Pause in Recording" appears at p.64.

p. 81

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Let's see, Bud wasn't. . . it had to be not too much before the '40's, because Bud went to the 8th grade over here in Oakville in '42. And he was big enough to climb way the heck and gone up in them trees, him and Ernie Kester to chase them out. And that tree was just full of woodpecker holes. I mean just literally covered. An old maple tree down that gully at Schulmericks. That's where we always chased them out and tried to catch them.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] There was a lot of bee trees around.

Bob Zybach: Bee trees?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Bee trees. Wild bees.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Oh yeah. Swarms come through there all the time.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Coffm Butte. We dropped several of them at Coffin Butte. I'd sneak up into Schulmericks and Beals when I shouldn't have. Drop some bee trees.

Bob Zybach: Were the bee trees in old dead trees? Were there a lot of snags?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] No, they'd be mostly trees that the center would be rotted out, the heart part, and maybe a limb and then there'd be a knot hole or something. Or a crack, a flaw in the tree and crack, and they would come in and build inside the tree. I have seen them in fir trees, most generally they were in maple trees, older trees where the centers were rotted.

Bob Zybach: So it'd be a live tree with a dead center but it'd usually be a hardwood, like oak or maple?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Yeah. Usually.

15. Father and Calves Photograph

Bob Zybach: Here's a picture of your dad there.

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Yes. This was a long long time ago. With the brown swiss calves.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Is that Dad?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] Urn hmm.

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] That's pretty old.

Bob Zybach: What's that building on the right there?

John Jacob "Jake" Rohner: [JAKE] The chicken house.

Bob Zybach: And did you build that?

Wilma "Willie" Rohner: [WILMA] Shorty did.

Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

As printed: Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.
This page: Rohner 1993. 15. Father and Calves Photograph, p. 81. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/15-father-and-calves-photograph/ (accessed 2026).
Cite this passage: Rohner 1993, p. 81 — Monograph #05:81
https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/15-father-and-calves-photograph/#p81 Swap 81 for whichever printed page you are quoting: every page number in the margin is its own address.
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/15-father-and-calves-photograph/
Original PDF: http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/05_Rohner/Zybach_1993.pdf

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