One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants.
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The window ledges would be holly and ferns and things-like-that and up in the chancel there'd be a good display of fruit and sheaves of wheat and oats tied in bundles at each corner and there was one special lady who used to do most of that. But, that's all I can remember about that. It was a beautiful church is all I can tell you ... |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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... it was there, but this shaft was there, and that was revolving in the same as the- as the flywheel, with the- and (inc), for cutting the corn. And of course this corn had to be fed by hand, it stood on a- on a little platform, and you pulled the sheaves off the corn and fed them into the corn cutter, there wasn't- there wasn't more than three or four men at this thing, and just heaving them off. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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And we'd tie that pole there and when we put- we or- wire like you-know across, and we'd stand this other pole in it and we'd take the corn and we'd put the stoops, like the sheaves. ... Up close on opposite each other. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Speaker: Cradle the grain. And very often the man's wife brought the youngsters out if they had them to the field and, ah, the older ones looked after the younger ones on a blanket in the field. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: And the woman bound the grain into sheaves. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Behind them. Interviewer: When the grain had been bound up into sheaves, to let it dry out on the field, what did they do with it? Speaker: Well, they stooked it up. In stooks. Put about, ah, eight shea-- sheaves in- in a row. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Well, there are- there are to- everything has changed, you-know, in the old days. When I was a boy working on the farm we cradled all the grain by hand, ah, the women- usually the women, ah, raked it up and tied it by hand and- into sheaves. Stook it up. Now, of course, they have- then next come the reaper. Ah, they just cut- cut it and laid it in bundles but they didn't tie it. Then came the binder and they tied it. Then came the binder with the sheaf-carrier and they carried the sheaves into, ah, six and dropped them off for a stook. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
Interviewer: Ah, for a- Speaker: For a- a stook. That's what they called, ah- the- the shea-- the sheaves when they're standing up, you-see, to dry and finish. Stook of wheat, stook of rye, stook of, ah- Interviewer: Right. Speaker: They carried the sheaves. Then came the, ah- the, ah, ah, threshing mills. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Speaker: Below we had the animals. Interviewer: Yeah, right. Speaker: And (inc). And the grain, we used to take the binder, cut it and put it into sheaves, stook it out in the field and then go along. Maybe, well (inc) years, the stook thrashed, there was a bunch come with the teams on the wagons, you-know, and tractor had been at the mill here, threshing-mill, they threshed it. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Speaker: A rolling machine, yes. Interviewer: Tie it- tie it up. Speaker: Mm-hm, that's right. Interviewer: Now that just throws the bundle out doesn't it? Speaker: Right out I guess. It grounds (inc). Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Raises them up. Stooked up sheaves (inc). (laughs) Interviewer: These- you stooked the sheaves, that means- Speaker: Mm-hm. Interviewer: That you put the (inc)- Speaker: Oh, I guess it was maybe twelve sheaves to a bundle, you-know. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Mm-hm. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
Interviewer: What- what is the bundle called then? Speaker: Well (inc) did you bundle them, put them (inc) up. I can't remember. I think we just bundled them up. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Cut the sheaves and put them in bunches. Stick them together. Interviewer: Yeah. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
Speaker: The binders would show- throw the sheaves out. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Yes and then we'd pick them up and put them- I think it was pretty much twelve sheaves to a bundle. Mm-hm. Interviewer: Mm-hm. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Interviewer: And, ah, what did you do with them? What- what do you call those little bundles? Speaker: Ah, the sheaf. Interviewer: And then what- what did you do with the sheaves? Speaker: Well, they just dropped them right along as they- as you tied them. And then you come along and stook them. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Speaker: And then they had a rake. And the grain at that time was nearly all cut with a r-- reaper. Big thing come around and shoved off a sheaf at a time. Then to follow it up we tied that by hand. Interviewer: Tied them up into what? Speaker: Tied them in be-- in the sheafs you-see. Take a- take some of the grain and- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Make a band. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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At that time the grain was much longer then it is now, it was uh, I'd say five feet tall and uh, they'd cut the stubble maybe leave it about a foot and you'd put the sheaf together and- and stoop them, you had- you had stooped two make sure they were good and solid then you stick about six around that- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Which made a stook. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Dad I-don't-think ever grew corn. But Jimmy did, and he ah, just used a- he- well, he was in on a corn binder, and ah, then he'd ah, it was cut and in stoo-- a s-- um sheaves, and then he'd draw it in close to the buildings and draw in a stoop of corn a day for the cattle while it lasted. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
Interviewer: Ah, after the um- the grain was ripe, and ready to cut, how was it cut? Speaker: With a binder, yeah. Interviewer: And what did it do? Speaker: It, ah, ah, cut the grain and then tied it with twine and it was in sheaves. Interviewer: Mm-hm, and what did you do with the sheaves? Speaker: Stooped them 'til they dried out well, and then we u-- they usually drew them in, stored them in the barn 'til the threshing mill came. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
... and um, there was men on the straw, to tramp it and build it in the barn, or on a stack, if it was going to be stored- if there was too much and wouldn't fit in the barn, and then there was somebody to cut the bands on the sheaves, band cutters, and ah, then there was feeding the mill the sheaves, and ah, carrying the grain to the granary. And I think that covers most of them. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
And my other uncle, Mother's brother, he was a way up forking the sheaves down above the mill, and he just jumped from there right down onto the mill, and the mill was still going; he might've been badly hurt. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Speaker: Yeah, gardening and haying and stooking grain. Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: Ah, when you- used to be when they cut the grain, they made it into sheaves and then you had the stuko sheaves- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: To dry. Interviewer: Oh wow. Speaker: And then you loaded them on a wagon and brought them into the thrashing machine. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: It's a lot simpler nowadays. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
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Interviewer: And what does thresh mean? Speaker: (inc) stick the- the gr-- the- the grain from the- from the stock. Interviewer: So that would all be in bails in the barn. Speaker: It would be in little (inc) or little ah sheafs, a sheaf, sheaves. And- and then- then they'd bring the machine in and they- when I first was a kid, they had um, ah steam engine to run it. And the steam engine was pulled by horses. |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |
Interviewer: What did you do with hay? Speaker: Hay, you'd bail it. You put it in- in bails- Speaker 2: Rectangular. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Yeah. But ah, the sheaves were just ah- ah- ah sh-- sh-- stocks of grain. Interviewer: Did you have to do that by hand? Put them into sheaves and- Speaker: No, no th-- there was a- a binder. A s-- a machine called a binder that come in and it- it r-- |
One of the large bundles in which it is usual to bind cereal plants after reaping. Also, a similar bundle of the stalks or blooms of other plants. |