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LUCKNOW SENTINEL
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
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WEDNESDAY, eh
AY, DECEMBER 24th, Y
To faithful friends old
and new, hearty 'thanks for} your.-
good-Will-crnd:best-washes
'for a wonderful' holiday season,.
FINLAYSON
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the .lo. s frorn the oldY, log
,building
were eventuallymade into. fire
wood . ,
Th_e_crQpsgrown were mainly
hay . timothy and clover--- wheat,
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oats, barley, peas, turnips, >,mang
lei,* and potatoes, 'The most
arduous task._was harvesting the
hay. It was deemed essential, that
the •hay should be cured in the
field ,. and' to 'accomplish this it was
gathered into small stacks called
.. hay cocks. where it remained ;for.
/'several: days s To load -the. hay on,'
to the hayrack it took men.with .;
strong-arms and backs Some of
the.,hay was stored in a loft, over
the_cowstable.;_aird it' was necess.
ary• to pitchthe hay•off the wagon
by hand through, doors about three
feet by four feet and more man
power, as boy power was, used to.
store 'the' hay away in ;the back
corners of the loft. During the
late 1890's the"lalso7sneer; hay -
loader, arrived on the: scene which
ended the practice:of making' the
The first grain..binders
did not come equipped withsheave
carriers so the sheaves were scatter'
ed helter skeltet: oyer the, ground
and the stookers had .:to pick 'them
up and carry them to `the' spot °
' where ,the- stooks: were to be made:
an the United States the .stooks. are.
'called shocks).. After drying out
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sheaves were 'hauled'to the barn to
be stored in the )(now until the.
threshing rig could come to: do the•
threshing. •.It rewired a large crew
to:moVe:the sheaves .out of the
' mow , up to the front- o, the . .
machine ; and then to show the
threshed straw either on a 'stack,
outside .oi into the mow. storage for
winter"feeding.•...One manetit the
bands .on the °sheave: , another red.•
the straw into the cylinder, of 'the
machineand orie carried . the : bussh
els of grain into the granary and
tallied the number of bt.uhe s or. a
machine . Outside, of the three or
four 'men who travelled with the
outfit, the neighbours furnihea
ihenecessary..rranpower • The,
ting bar on a mower and from then
on the pea crop was harvested by ;
machine. It required 'a man to
follow -the mower with.a fork and
when the bundle was large enough.
in Ontario's•climate , so. peas were
used as a substitute for cern in
some hog -feed ing-nations,.-- - Peas..
have a very high 'protein content:
ere was a cash ket for -pe -si-- -
as many bushels were •used in the
logging camps of north, and north
west as, part of the diet of hungry.
lumber jacks in soups, The crop.
had, to be discontinued .when an
infestation of pea weevil occurred,
Each grain would have a hole in it
with one of thesebugs curled up
inside
Afterthe; harvest and threshing
was •,completed `''it. was then time to
do the fall plowing, which. was
done with. a teamof horses and "a.,
one furrow.walking. plow .,This
operation took .a long time, and had
to cease when the fall .freezeup.
came whether the job was complet
ed or not
Our ancestors brought with them
frorn,Scotland a great respect for
their church' and the Sabbath day.
In addition to the English services
there was one in Gaelic each .Sun-
day morning at ten o'clock . Fath-
er would walk across the fields to
attend this Gaelic service and the
rest of the family 'would arrive -in
the double -,seated buggy hauled by.
W.
...=Have a
happy
holiday, and accept our pleased thanks!
LUCKNOW BOWL [ f
Fred` and. Dove Horton
start, them boiling: Then there •m
the evening services at :seven ,'
o`clock. • The* preachers worked
hard at'their jolis, Sunda • was a
day of rest and no.work was done
except the works of ne e�ssity.and,
days the preachers believed in' ex•
pounding the word.; and preached
for an hour at least ;so that, with'. ;
the 'psalm singing and the long
prayers', it would be )ate in the
he worked the bundle out.behind\ a team of work hoises and a single afternoon before dinner was over,
the-mower—There-was-no-eor-n--- seated --buggy' with the driving Usually, sotleone__r_ema ned'home
'develo ped' that would mature horse between'the shafts. In those ' toput the ��otatoes. on the . stove and
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power for operating the' machine.
was: provided` by a •wood -;burning
steam engine and took'an experie
ced engineer to fire and 'attend to
it. The women folks provided
good- meals for all the hands.
Threshing time was considered '
something 'special and ire were .
even allowed tostay home from
school fora•couple of days.
In the East a Star shone,
idh g the Wise .Men to the
sacred manger. Let. the
message of , the Nativity
light -the -way -for -us -today :- --
o fie blessis
lasting Peace and:Go,od Wil.,
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The pea crop' was at first harvest
ed by hand with a scyth .. ' The
plants were not very deeply rooted
so they were easily pulled our.
Later someone came up with the
idem of attaching a series of half
inch round iron•rods•which were
curved ,in a half Ducie to the cut -
for. Christmas
and the New Year
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