Show t Fi I i REMEMBER L. L BY THE rIU Or OLD i TIMERS If v From Lynn D. D Pitts Pitts- Pittsburg burg burgr Pennsylvania Born in 1874 and reared in a rural district I remember when there was a hop vine growing in the garden at every every ev ev- ery cry home Housewives used the hops to make their own yeast During the winter months month every scrap lp of fat meat was carefully preserved and later made into into in in- to a soft soap for laundry work It was powerful stuff not only removing removing- the dirt from soiled clothing but coming close to removing removing removing re re- moving the he skin ikin from the hands of the laundress I remember too at that time afew a afew afew few farmers still used oxen to do their farm work However all of them kept one horse to do cultivating cultivating cultivating cul cul- and other work and for driving on occasional trips to town or elsewhere Many farmers were still harvesting small grains wheat oats etc with a cradle wl which cb left the grain lying in swaths Later it was raked with a hand rake and tied into bundles for shocking Then came a reaper reaper known as a dropper which left the grain lying in bundles of suitable suitable suitable suit suit- able size to be tied by hand making making making mak mak- ing a band from a wisp of the grain The self sel binder followed and now they are being superceded ed by combines which cut and thresh the grain in one operation eliminating all the former in be tween labor Verily times have changed h since Hector was a pup 75 5 years ago Send contributions to this column to The Old Timer r Community Press Frets Sen- Sen l 7 lee e. e Frankfort IU Kentucky t k r. r |