A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up.
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They're a thing about twenty-five feet long, or close to it. When the feeder's up. You put the grain one in, the straw goes up the other end, the blower up, the straw goes up in the mow with the blower. The grain runs out in bushels- bushels ah on the side of the mill and (inc) you have to have a man carrying them to the granary as they come out. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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And we'd fill the mow right up into the peak of the lofts. The last- they could trail the last forkful in, like into the loft. It was that full. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
You- you think it was sticks you broke up for dinner. Like you had to cut it- like you had to cut it before it- it got ripe or the leaves wouldn't stay on like you-know? But we used to have twenty mows in the barn for that kind-of-stuff. Oh the cows have done fat and everything else. They just loved it. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
Speaker: Well Dad never did anything about December, we went out in December. We were outside, taking it out of the snow. Interviewer: Hm. Speaker: You-know just ah and the- we'd- we ah packed in the- in the mows of the barn. The other feed was getting pretty low then you-know. And ah we used to get up, oh we were kids, we all worked good and hard at- Interviewer: Hm. Speaker: At the father. My father died very young. He was only sixty-two when he died. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
It was that full. And we used to do the same in the barns, but we forked it off in the barns, we- we had to spread it in the barns. We didn't- and we had- we had two- we had three big mows in the barn and we had c-- like the cow-stable loft, and we had the machine-shed loft, and we had- everything was full. And we used to- to stack our grain outside in carts and stacks outside. One stack I put up. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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Speaker: I don't know. At that time, you-know, they, ah- they used to have these big beaver meadows that they had to cut with, ah, the scythe. You've seen them? Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Just mow and- too wet for to put mowing machines or anything in. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Yeah. But it- it was good feed. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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Speaker: ... team on a wagon, a ramp on it and you'd pitch that onto- another fellow was on the load, and divot and bring it in the barn, take the hayfork and take it off. There were sometimes where the hayfork was dented we'd pitch it off in the mow. Interviewer: Mm. So it was always up- going up. Speaker: Up, yeah. Interviewer: And below you had the animals. Speaker: Below we had the animals. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
Speaker: ... tractor had been at the mill here, threshing-mill, they threshed it. Then you'd go to the next one, help him. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: But when you're on- before that you'd do your own. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: Forking things to- on wagon and feeding, barn, and building in the mow. Interviewer: Mm-hm. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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Speaker: But, ah, we didn't- the- the place above- above the cattle for the- for the mow. But now the hay, somebody called them- I forget what you called them. Lofts. Interviewer: Oh. That was up above the barn. Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: But these mows were just, what like big bins or what? Speaker: Yes, a great big- big empty bins and we- in the threshing mills you put the mill in there and put the straw- almost everything in there. In the one mill. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
Interviewer: I see. I'm not sure whether I understand what a mow is exactly. Speaker: Oh, a place where to put the feed- feed- the feed, you-know, where the feed is. Draw and run- draw it in with the wagon, fork it over into these mows. You call them mows. Interviewer: I see, you put the hay and stuff- Speaker: Yes. Interviewer: There to store it. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
Speaker: Yes, up above it was where they went. Well up above it would- would be- would be mows and for the (inc) hay you-know? For the cattle. Interviewer: What was that for the- something? Speaker: We call them mows. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: That- that we- Interviewer: What were they? Speaker: We'd have the s-- we'd have the threshing mill and all the straw and then they unchaffed it out in there. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
Interviewer: I see. I think I understand now. So there was the byre underneath, then the barn, which had the mows. Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: And then up above that was the loft. Speaker: Yes, that's it. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
Speaker: And the haymows where we kept the hay. And we- Interviewer: The hay- what was that? Speaker: The- the hay. Interviewer: Yes, you- but you kept that in the-? Speaker: Ah, we put it in those big mows in the barn, you-know. Interviewer: Oh yes. Yes. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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Interviewer: What about when you, ah, ah, the- the- put them near the- near the barn or something? Is it- did you put them in a bigger- bigger pile there, or? Speaker: Piled it all in a mow. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: Half the size of the barn. You-know, tramp it in. Interviewer: Which? Speaker: You'd tramp it in with your feet. Get much in. But, ah, you don't throw it in with the fork, no, they'd take it in with the hay fork. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
Speaker: Whenever you want that hay to drop, just pull the little tripper open, it'll drop right down on the mow. Interviewer: How- ah, what kind of a barn did your father have? Speaker: Well, there's a driveway in the middle, so you don't suddenly have to drag your hay or stuff off on one end. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: Then, do-you-see, if you fill the two mows, you can also fill out the, ah- fill the middle too if you want to- |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
Interviewer: Did you have a second storey? Speaker: Yes, if you have a door open in the end, do-you-see, you can drop it on the floor instead of in the mow. And then, ah, take it out the same way if you want to. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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Speaker: The first one we had here was all logs. And a barn floor in it, and mows on both sides you-see. And then the shed (inc) but they were all burnt. And then we put up these- put up these frame ones. Interviewer: Mm-hm. What do you mean the mows on both sides? Speaker: Well you- you ah drove in in the centre and you put it into one mow and into the other mow. That was the way you- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: You had to get inside the barn you-know. That's the only way- you had to have a thrower so's you could push it in both mows. and- Interviewer: Was it two ah- two stories? |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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Speaker: W-- We put it- we had a- a stable and a loft- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: The loft was above and you put up a hand, you-know? Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: You'd fork it up to the loft and somebody would stack it back and spread it back in the mow. Interviewer: Yes. This was wild hay. Speaker: Wild hay, yeah. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Beaver w-- what they call beaver hay. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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... she took me to the doctor and he said "Well have you been uh," I think it was buckwheat they were thrashing, and I was on the thr-- in the mower- mo-- mow where they used to throw the straw, and it was an infection from the buckwheat straw. And they gave mother stuff she had to put in my eyes, particularly the one eye, but the other one had a couple, and it was closed tight, you-know? |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |
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... and my job was to tie the slings and then he would pull it up with the truck and I would drop the hay in the mow, and then I'd have to pull the slings back down and set them again, and climb into the mow and level the hay off. So, that- that would usually take us ah in the summer time, it would take us a month and a half to do the one farm. |
A place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. |