And it turned out I'd two deer lying so we got them dressed up and the other guy, he come with a truck and load them and took them another place and hung them up.

What's- what's he trying to prove here. So r-- rather than say no to my neighbour, I got ready and walked across the fields with him and we dressed this steer.

Speaker 2: Yeah and that was- the- A-- Almonte had one, Lanark, Meadowvale, they all had turkey fairs. Speaker 1: They didn't dress them you-know, they left the stuffings in them. Wrapped their head and-everything up in paper.

Or you would can your- in the wintertime we dress a beef then that would be- it would be maybe canned.

Well, that was just a place where you sold your, ah, your birds in the fall. Like, they'd kill them. They were all dressed and, ah, then they'd take a sleigh load of them or carload or whatever the motor transportation you had and then there'd be buyers from Canada-Packers, Maple-Leaf or-whatever would come and then-

Speaker: Another exciting thing was when Larry was born eh? Speaker 2: Yes. Speaker: Ah, we were still living up on the farm at his parents' place when I went into labour for our second baby. And then snow drifts were deep, deep eh? And not too many had phones back then either.

That was Chad-Grant. His brother Clyde, running a- he was a druggist in town. So when mother was shopping, he'd go up and talk to Clyde

Yeah, and we have part of that Kodac camera yet and Welsh-Sardin who was a druggist in Almonte, he used to borrow her camera and ah, a lot of the photographs on postcards were taken from, you-know, his use of that camera.

Oh, you can't claim that. "Well why not?" Well as soon as you- as soon as I claim it, right? On the other side of the coin, you've got workman's compensation and E-I and-all-this-shit that goes with it (laughs) right? God pity the kid get hurt and what-not but thank God nothing ever happened.

Speaker: (Laughs) These two lads mated up and they ah- there was a clock. An eight-day clock sitting right close to the telephone and when she took the receiver off, you'd hear the clock going, "Tick, tick, tick, tick." Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: You knew she was on the line. And they said (coughs)- one lad asked the other, "You got any butter?" He said, "Yes." "Give Missus-so-and-so a pound and tell her to grease her arse and get off the line." [1:00:09.2] (Laughs) Interviewer: (Laughs) Did she put the phone down? Speaker: (Laughs) I don't know, I wasn't involved at the time. Speaker 2: (Laughs) Interviewer: Now what in- what is an eight-day clock, Wesley? Speaker: One of those up there. Speaker 2: You wind it once a week but that one's not- Speaker: You wind it on-- once every eight days. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah. Speaker 2: Put a key in it, wind- Interviewer: Wind it up.

Well, we had a eight-day clock, one that you wound up.

So they- they were from- all of them were quite familiar with how to use land that had nothing. Sheep- ah, not the Wilks family but a lot of the settlers and- you can see that couldn't eke a living out of some of the- the, ah, rocky areas and-such. Um, so it was kind of hard times up by Lanark. Now, on the other hand the Corr family were fairly wealthy farmer bunch and they were hard, hard workers.

It was another little machine, not nearly as big as the tractor, but he went from farm to farm and they cut the corn – they didn’t cut the corn, the corn was cut in the fields and then people it in on the wagons and it was put onto this machine and it chopped it up into ensilage.

Well that's where the ensilage went from the corn and then we had what we called a storage bin next to that and well, how big would it be squared off maybe like so and filled with sand and that's where you put the carrots in the winter and you hung the cabbages.

Cause some of the commodities, eh if price of lamb goes down, well the beef will carry you through or-whatever. If you get disaster strikes if you got all pigs and y-- price of pigs goes down you're getting euchred.

Speaker 1: I guess. (laughs) Well there were some things that, ah. Now, a lady that was here last night- and I never heard this word before, was "falderal". Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Speaker 1: And she said it was big- "Don't make a- a falderal", don't make a big fuss.

I get a gentleman in just so I'm able to fall the tree where I want it.

Everybody worked. ... It was a family affair (laughs).

Oh yeah, and that was somebody to fart around with- go to the hay and jump in the hay or play around, do this do that.

And then my brothers came and helped some and a neighbour came and helped some. So then he was at um, a silo felling. Like at that time the stooks were in the field and you forked them into the corn cutter. It wasn't like the way they do it now. But he was forking the corn into the cutter and he just dropped dead.