Show MADE l 1000 I 10 0 THRESH GRAIN I I I by byl I ELIZABETH ORA CRAWFORD FORD MUSK MUNK I 1 well remember the first white I l cloth I ever eyer saw I had been toe to e store and had seen It there I Ime Ime me home and asked mother if we told uld get a white oil cloth and a bar Ii store soap for the threshers heid ne he ned Id d she thought we could get Jet a ece ece of white oil cloth but we would re ive e to wait another year jear for the thelo K e p when we had the threshers St at l year and the meal was almost t tady tidy ady I got out several pieces of mado made soap put them on a anch out in the back door yard be be- I Ie a couple of tin wash basins I If Ing f ng g several towels on the back orOld of or fold Old chair so they would be handy t the men to reach How we did enjoy hearing their I banter and jokes with une other as they waited for lor their 9 jn rn rn at the wash basin When the meal was serves served one Md Id was stationed at one side of or fc table with a fly brush I hear meone say What is a n fly brush I I What we called a fly brush was pie ele de from a straight long willow I th h a newspaper sewed around It d then cut in strips part way rp p p j I I I Icy ley ey kept this brush waving back d forth over the table to keep the theis thes I is s from the food You see 11 fly cons cens had not been heard of or the then 1 The ho best the housewives had in to way of eatables was brought for fur rd ra at threshing time They aheY would be 00 bus busy for several ys before belore threshing time Baking ewIng cleaning spring chickens d Q sometimes a young oung porker or 01 a ang ang ng beef beet was killed You y 1 the fatted calf was slaughtered II lb the occasion There were mince minces s squash pies and that thai wonder wonder- J Ij old fashioned cake called f the ly cake doughnuts and what not I They must have plenty plent- on ou hand use sometimes the thresher I lids had four or five meals there I cording to the amount of or grain t to tn I threshed The Phe e threshers were not the only es es s to share in this harvest feti festi- J. J After dinner the Rood good hou house house- ees e- e Yes es es would invite all the neighbor yes cs es over for a piece of pie or calve I acup scup of coffee and anti where ever evere everi e i mothers were there also Tern vero Terne e smaller children Racing back d ct forth between eIl the barn ere the threshing was going en en cn d the house with a doughnut In hand c 2 and an apple in the other otier d l perhaps a lump of or sugar to hoot boot 1 having the Ule time o of oG their lives fI The fIe e conversation of those mo hol hols hol's s very verr different from what It uld old be toda today The last batch of or orp p pt w tilt discussed How much or copperas you could get ant a dozen eggs or how their last to to Sait Sail Lake with their Ch as us wheat oats butter eggs gs nr n- n they had to dispose of bail bad ned out If it had been a u sura sur- sur S a or not Whenever they ther too toot tone ad a n d of or produce in to Salt Lake they re e always happy when ab abo A tn to toa I a load or even a part of a load of or goods to Bring gring back for Cor the coop co co- op up store The threshing machine following the one I have described had five span of horses and amid the horse power was mounted or built on a wagon that came along with the machine I The first threshing machine was WE I called the It was mad mado I like a large box five ft square from good solid planks It was made with belts and no tumbling tumbling- rods It Tt had hada a a. concave cylinder a pully on outsidE out- out sidE of cylinder a shaft that ran out I from om t the e hor horse e power A large wheel l i about three it n. In m diameter ammeter was made maue of cast Iron A belt was at attached ached to the big biK wheel and attached to pully I on the cylinder clinder Uncle Peter MunK says he thinks only four horses horse I were used on this machine machine- Two men one on each side Eide separated the wheat from m ti the straw straw and also two to sep sep- P erate the chaff from the straw John Johr Buchanan was the man who fed It at the time he can remember This was about the year ear 1853 or 1854 j The second machine was a very noted line called the Valley Tan I |