Three day- it might take three days at each farm to thresh it and it be six wagons. And six wagons or so and with the team of horses and they- they- they pull up the side of thresher machine and fork the sheaves into the thrashing machine, that's how-

Speaker: There was two kind of stook. They used to have the long stooks and they'd be two, two, two and two. And the stook would be about- it would have maybe ten sheaves in it. Five pairs. And then the round stooks you just had two and two and- 'bout maybe six or seven. And- and it was round then.

Speaker: You go into the field and cut the grain with the binder in it. Interviewer 1: So it almost (inc)- Speaker: Makes it into stooks, yeah makes it- Interviewer 1: Oh 'kay! Speaker: Into stooks, into sheaves, yes stooks is when you put them all together made it into sheaves. Glad you remember these things (laughs) 'cause I can't- made it into sheaves and then ah- Interviewer 2: She drove the tractor, mom rode the binder-

... ah you raked all the grain up with a hay-rake that the horses pulled, and then ah got the binder, and ah went along and it picked- it picked the grain up and straw, and fed it through the unit, and it would tie what's referred to as a sheaf of grain.