Like you'd- I- I must have been difficult for my mom because she'd have the huge table full of all the neighbourhood men there for lunch and she'd have to put on this big spread for lunch and, of course, um, she always had to have pies and the men raved about her pies and her- her cooking, but, ah, yeah, it was- it- the one farmer had the threshing machine and he would bring it over and then all the other farmers would come with their wagons and- and- tractors and- and we'd go out to the fields and throw on all the stooks of grain and bring them back and throw them into the threshing.

It was stooked and ah, I was building the load and um, a groundhog was in a stook. A stook is five sheaves or- or seven or eight whatever

Speaker: So they would cut the grain with the binder and would b-- be done up in stooks. Interviewer 2: Right. Interviewer 1: Yes, okay. Speaker: And then people went- neighbours went to the next neighbour and the thrashing mill would come and neighbours would bring this- load these stooks of grain on their wagon, bring it to the thrashing mill.

And when you ah harvested the crop, it was cut with a binder and it was put in stooks in the field and you had a threshing machine.

And that's what they did. And then they got to come around and stook it, and then they'd pick it up with the wagon and take it in the barn and then thrashing machine would come in the winter.

Interviewer: And how many would be in one stook? 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.

Speaker: Makes it into stooks, yeah makes it- Interviewer: 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: She drove the tractor, mom road the binder- Speaker: B-- binder. Interviewer: Dad stooked the grain. Speaker: Yeah, he had to stook it up into stooks so the f-- when it rains, the rain will fall off it so it doesn't get it all wet. If you leave it on the ground, it gets mouldy and-that so- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: You have to stook it up into stooks so my dad did that and ah- and then I drove the- the- when we had the- what was it, the elevator?