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Show l REMEMBER"! ' EY THE OLDIIMERS i -J From Ren Fast, Pioneer, Ohio: I remember as a child, in a family of eight children, my father used to buy crackers by the barrel. We used to dig deep into the barrel, to see which one of us could find the biggest double cracker. In other words, the largest number stuck together. We had a large orchard and always had plenty of apples and home-made cider in the fall, which we made on our own hand-powered hand-powered cider mill. We also used to make apple butter in a large copper cop-per kettle. Can you think of anything any-thing better than good home-made bread and apple butter? From J. M. Hertzoy, 913 Franklin Frank-lin Street, Reading, Pa.: I remember remem-ber when canal boats loaded with coal used to pass through Reading at the southern end of town. They were drawn by two or three mules. On Water Street, near the trolly bridge, they used to dock for several sev-eral days at a time. m From H. E. Collies, Foneto, Indiana: In-diana: I can remember when grain was cradled, raked. with a wooden rake, and tied with a double-hand made from the straw of the grain. I can still make a double band. From H. Rowe, Rush Springs, Oklahoma: I remember when I was a lad in Tennessee and my mother cooked in the chimney. She hung her brass kettle from pot racks in the fireplace and the skillet was used to bake the corn pone and biscuits. bis-cuits. Saturday was her regular baking day. From Mrs. Willia Bodgett, Marion, Ma-rion, Va.: I remember my grandmother grand-mother once raised 200 geese and ducks and 200 turkeys and sold them for $1.25 each, and 50 bushels of beans for $1.00 a bushel, to pay a due bill at the country store. |