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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-06-25, Page 13and nobody used any spray,: We had to pick the apples, and, the packers would come and sort them, 'taking the best and packing 'them in barrels, We had to. deliver them to a box car in LucknOW u--..--.-fer-thesum-o-f--7$-1 a barrel. Just goes to Show you; how hard a dollar Was' to come by in those days...And the going Tate for pitching sheaVes in harvest was $1 a day, In winter we had skating on the 'ponds, and some winters Jack Glenn had an open; air rink in Dungannon, and a warm 'place to change our skates. yVe had sleigh .riding parties, on fait home made bobsleds, mostly on river hill and. Glenn's Hill, and on Cook's hill on 9th concession of West Wawa- nosh. We always had a lot of *from page 12 the fall, one boy on the paring machine and two girls Wowing for each machine. We worked ten hours a day with pay $1.00 a.day,,and you really had to produce or the foreman would tell you about maehine--Vo would be plenty soaked with apple juice. Robt. Moore Was night man and kept, fires going to dry apples. The apples would dry overnight and,,the kilns would, be ready to load again in the morning. I had been working in the place, the day it burned down; so I lost illy job. We had about three acres of apple orchards at borne, lovely apples, mostly Kings, Spies and . lialdwins. Not much trouble with worms in those days. Lots of bluebirds and other birds and I believe 'they took care of worms, We had about three acres of , apple orchards in those daYs, and had large bins of apples in cellar for winter use. In the evenings we WOuld have apples to peel by machine, and slice for drying on a rack` above the kitchen range:. It was loaded at all times, as that was what we used to trade in for groceries at Ben Crawford's store; mostly flout, 'sugar and tea etc. as we had most other necessities of our own, such `.as ' fruit, vegetables, milk, eggs and butter. We Usually hada keg'of salted lake trout, a. quarter of beef or would slaughter a hog for winter use, We had a plentiful supply of game in the woods and bunting was. good, lots of partridge, 'snow shoe and • cotton tail rabbits, also fox, coons-and-muskrats-.-There were no deer in this' part of the, country in my earliest days, but were quite plentiful later, 1 can recall how peace- ful it was to be up in SterVart's swamp hunting on a real stormy day. "It 'was so still and sheltered from the wind, Perhaps a light snow sifting down, and listen to the music of a couple ..of hounds mining the rabbits. They had • some good • rabbit hounds in those days. Some times yOu could hear them back in the swamps running all night. The, old Dungannon bridge was built in 1917. I believe by Sandy and Grant. It was a The only convenience We had concrete arch, something was Ihe little houie on the new.in bridge construction at prairie with the air condition, that time, Many heavy ing and solar heat, where the - beams were used to hold the snow blew in and covered the forms up :and took all Om- seat, titer tol build, At. that time I was -Woring-at-tbe -"Rhrer--Wlnt LintlfieittAtfaef$6- Valley Creamery, which 'was - 1897 - 19 pearthe bridge, so I 'have watched the building. of the • new bridge, and the Old one which has been real inter- esting. We did not have any luxurious in those daysjust thebare necessities, YOU did a lot of walking Until you Could afford an. old bicycle.' • We had no electricity and .no telephone. We had oil lamps for light, which was an improvement over the cand- les which our forefathers had - for lights. If we had any kind „ of bath all winter, it had to be in a tub by the kitchen stove, wood to cut in winter, to keep the home 'fires burning, The old house had no insulation or storm windows, ,therefore those stoves had an awful appetite' for wood, and yea* kept warm two Ways, cutting the-wood-and burning it. Conley Construction LUCKNOW Convent Work Framing Renovations For Free Estimates CALL 528-2338 usiness irectory CR410.0117..R101-..: Certified General Carpenter Box 309 CLIFF MANN- LUCKNOW, ONTARIO eeeylp Peeepiteat,& 'Weateft, KITCHEN REMODELLING BATHROOM REMODELLING REPAIRS WOODSTOV.ES SOLD AND INSTALLED /QUALITY WORKMANSHIP - FURNACE INSTALLATIONS mosommusommimp masnImosimmemo WINGHAM MEMORIALS Renovations - Custom Built Stairs Windows and Doors R. R. #1, Ltteknow, Ont. Tel. 528-6842 REP.. 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