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Page 40 farm. Neighbors generally traded work during the season. On a small rig it might take three of four wagons to haul the grain to the bins and a good husky shoveler who would stay at the bin to help shovel. There were no farm elevators to make work easy then. It would take at least four pitchers on the stacks plus the machine operator. Quite often two or three neighbor woman would come to help cook and visit. Threshing time was when the women had a chance to get out and talk it over with a neighbor. Kids came too. Some old enough to help and some still the age when they needed help. So it wasn’t uncommon to have twenty or more for dinner and maybe supper too and all of them hungry. Some of those meals were simply out of this world and It seemed that each of the woman, when it came her turn, tried to outdo the others in preparing the meal. Sometimes you would think a table would collapse. It might be loaded with fried chicken, boiled ham, roast |