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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-12-24, Page 6THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO • 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 •RECOLLECTIONS CONTINUEDFROM PAGE.5 the .lo. s frorn the oldY, log ,building were eventuallymade into. fire wood . , Th_e_crQpsgrown were mainly hay . timothy and clover--- wheat, . Y y: 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 - ��t�eFstooks�f•€xpa- f�s*t�e�.�_ 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 yetP P.. CONTINUED ON PAGE fi • ¢ Rjfk4 rf . 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., • • 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 t W. \S t{ t 11c�(~O k LU1��d �- /: U!C:t t("QW C2Ctll. RJJ • "DONALD AND (JIM.