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Page 41 beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, creamed peas, corn, baked beans, jelly, pickles, bread, biscuits, salads and always a couple different kinds of cake and probably two or three kinds of pie. If I have left out anything you name it. It was probably on the table or close by. We kids might not get to eat at the first table but we never had to worry. There was plenty left. When the threshing machine was running I liked to stand in the wagon and watch and feel the grain pour in. There was a hopper on the machine that held one half bushel. When it weighed out 30 pounds it would open up and trip a tally that counted the number of bushels of grain threshed. In a good year it would fill and empty so fast that it was almost a continuous stream of grain going into the wagon. (30# was for wheat of course) A big fan blew the straw through a long tin pipe.
The pipe was probably twenty feet long and a foot in diameter.
When threshing was done there would be a big pile or two of straw
to be used for bedding at the barn and was a good place for the cattle to
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