Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-04-18 | Page 19 | Farmer's Life Not All Labor

I F FARMERS FARMER'S LIFE NOT ALL LABOR St. St Louis Paper Describes Revival Revival Revival Re Re- vival of time Old-time Missouri Husking Bee Beneath the autumn moon of at Old Missouri a rusl rusty brown brown fiddle sanG sane Turk Turkey e In the Stra Straw Automobile headlights flickered fhi etl down the lane and andre re regular old hay burner lanterns lantern hun hung hung- under th the barn and shed and around tho the barnyard arll Inside the barn and In front of ot the big bis doorway t sideboard loads bails of 01 nn- nn husked corn were heaped so society society so- so clet toll folk country men and maidens bearded tanners farmers and p placid 11 chI farm matrons ma mn- made up the little party port on reviving ro the time old husking be Down In Jn Pettis county count the farmers Juno have a regular bureau of ot agriculture presided d over O bv by S S. S S1 M. M Jordan as lS man man- ager r and I M 31 V. V Carroll as secretary Four miles out of ot Sedalla lives J. J S Stephens substantial Th Tho e alt afternoon of oC December 7 tho tue party part ee telephones telephone along along- the thc around th the tho e Stephens farm arm bus were busy The word wn was being passed passel around that there ther e would be an old fashioned corn at it Stephens Stephens' that night There had to b be a n fiddler No violin lets n need d apply epply A party part of ot youn young young- g folks folies at a husking b bee e want fiddling fiddling- not the execution of at music on a violin The Ne New Cut Road Hoad and Chickens Chickene I In n the Bread Tray Old Dan n Tucker and Shale Shako That Wooden Leg Lee are th tho e tunes to ring out under the tho moon an ancelia and eg ed d echo celia among the rafters nt lt a 0 huskin husking g be bee That hat pleasant afternoon r rea rent al l doughnuts were made mado In the kitchen of o lf f the Stephens farmhouse C About dus dusk k L I. L. L M. M president of at the tho Pott Petti la ks kt s count county bureau of oC agriculture sent ou oua out outa t a barrel harrel of at sweet elder cider pressed from the tho choicest fruit of ot the apple tree The refreshment preparations e complete A A. basket or two of or big big- re red d apples es were er rend ready The rev revived cd corn husking v was a queer commingling commingling- of oC yesterday an and d now v. Automobiles carried many of th the e revelers re to the tho Stephena Stephens homo home The Thc They y ey Vero parked In a bl big lot near the barn Their great yellow eyes oyes Illuminated th the e plies piles of corn cOIn tho the merry party part of oC ol oland old d ed and young oung Missourians and shone over ove r tho fiddler perched on n a dr dry goods good s rs box near neat the yawning doorway Under the liGht of ot the tho same old moon moo n and the glare of oC motor car headlights headlight s tho the part party settled down to strip the bl bi bis g sg cars husking ears husking Just as their grandparents cots did lid tift fifty or sixty years yeara before It I Iwas t was the days das of ot the GOs COs shaking hands hand s ts across the years carR with ith the tho tolls folks of ot to to- to day St clay St Louis