HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1979-10-25, Page 12Bruce A. Blake of Brussels
area was fined 555 on ,a
charge of speeding.
Joseph G. Cronin of Dub.
lin ryas fined $38. for, foiiow
,ing another motor vehicle too
closely.
David•Ellis of-Seaforth and
Dianne J. Garrett of Bayfield
were fined $104 as minors
having liquor readily avail-
able. •
George Nesbitt of Clinton
(Photo by Oke)
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was fined $28 under :the.
Motor Vehicles Traffic Act,
for failure to yield.
Glenn R. Somers of Brus-
sels was fined 5104 "for
having "liquor readily avail-
able,
•Edgar A., Stoll of R.R.
Kippen was fined 553 for
using a license plate issued.
to another vehicle...•
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garden ,produe„e, sliced tomatoes or cucumbers, Babbage
salad and of .et►urse. those homemade pies and cakes,.
Aititetirries paired with Muted fruit. Enough; to make:any
4raen's mouth water,
While the abort d; ti+t alight sound like 'the'
elaborate fare sometimes: Imes offered at contemporary church.
..
suppers, it Was actually the standard menu at a
t#tzesh.tng t, eal where the alta was to Serve good. plain.
'fogd;,, and lots i?.f it. to hal tate empty spaces in men who'd;
been threshing; forhottrs. Th..eQther haste part of the meet,
of course, was roast beef or pork. .necessary to, produce
that dark brown ;grav: y used to smother the potatoes.
Now threshing back in the 1920'S 411441910 ".$ warn 1
quite the Sante as today's mechanized harvest. With the
help of a recent article in Early Canadiaij Life. and: some
reminiscences from area residents, JO's reCreate a goon$.
old-fashioned threshing bee.
Threshing started in September. and .if :the weather
didn't co-operate« or if too many farmers shared the same
custom thresher, ecru#d still be going on in November, with
snow already eoveriog the ground.
Crops, lice oats, wheat and barley were cut with a
binder, Stooled and, then hauled into the barn by wagon. to
be stored unfit the thresher and his Men reached the farm.
The at-tt I tools of the custom thresher's trade were a
steamengine and ,grain separator. died often only one
farmer on a lino would own this equipment, which meant
he threshed for tnovt of his neighbours, The secret in
threshing wasto leave the-graiin in the barn long enough to
overcotn,e the risk or heating and ,Spotting whenit was.
finally Safely stored in the granary.
-George Addison, who now lives in Seaforth, but farmed
in the Kinburn:area for many years, was one man who did
custom'threshing. He*threshed over a wide area of Hullett
and Gederich Township and recalls that the season. lasted
,generally until after the snow was on the ground, because
crops were usually, safety stored in the barn.
"In those .days. you had to lease home at 4 a.m. for your
place of work on Monday morning. in order to_ be fixed Up
at 7 a.m, with the steam engine fired lip,” Mr. Addison
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remembers,. The steam-• wng.tne was fuelled ' with rough
wood or old fence rails in the early days -later coal and even
later still, gasoline, was used to keep the water boiling,
TIRING UP
Mr. Addison recalls that a crew would usually thresh
from morning until about f p.nt. at night, and then in order
to be so up for the 'next day's work; he had to fill all the
separator grease cups, grind the knives for the straw
cutter on the separator and the steam engine hadto be
refilled with water which the thresher andhis co-workers
had usually hauled from a nearby creek in a wooden water
tank, On Monday night, the thresher could bank his fire in.
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tt#e engine so: he didn't have to get. ?tit the teen; quite so
l ,the emottling,lThis. style :o threSllia Went On
eary' next �'
:tinct stook thfeehieg and the tractor beeante the order
the- day.
Mr. Addison said in 4.di to the threemtan crew on
the .engine, there were .tisualiy Silt. Chien needed to wotlt:
tossing sheaves down to the Separator front the MOW, ,and
two. more men to carry the bl`tsbei baskets of grain IA the
granary -a job that often teat' aeb ng arras before the :day
wasover,
Now as two other tonal resident* told me, .enc of the
hazards of the steam: engine auto separator sySteitly of
threshing was fire,
Secord McBrien, who farmed on Lot 2, Con 'VS of
Hullo* Township, for many years, said if the belt running,
fromthe steam engine t en i e to he separator wasn't properly
.. p
oiled. it could get too hot, :igniting the straw which was
being blown into the barn. The result was a fire in the loft,
and with the dry grain, the whole barn was often lost as • the
flames spread.
Mother problem with' the steam engine belts was when.
rain started .to fall, the belt would become slipper y and;
often threshing came toe halt. It wasn't just the threshers
who were worried about the lost time -imagine the farm,
wife, suddenly finding she was going to have front eight 44
12 men staying on fpr more meals than she'd planned.
flack to the hot oven to turn .out more biscuits, nnuffinaa,
homemade bread and other tempting delicacies.
Oh, how much did a thresher eat? Well, while two
pieces of pie was considered an average dessert, .Mts.
George Addison recalls the men would often compete to,
see who could eat the post -the record she remembers
seven ;pieces of pie eaten• by one thresher to top off his
already hearty meal.
LOCAL MANUFACTURERS
Two popular steam•ongine and separator makes Lound:
in Heron and Perth. Counties were machines built either• by
Robert Bell Engine and Thresher Co Ltd here in Seaforth.
or by George White Manufacturing in Stratford. Even in
this area, the threshing crew would oeeasii nally: stay alt
night. but in Western: Canada, the "harvesters
excursions" meant n whole'gang of men travelled with the
thresher and 'his machine, often living on the fax in
converted train cabooses, My father and many other young.
Hien front southwestern Ontario, battled unemployment by
heading west . on these excursions. Many . were so
captivated by the vast spaces and unclaimed land in the
Western province's, that they stayed on as homesteaders.
,My father carved -out a subsistence living in the . Peace
River :district cif northern, Alberta for 10 years before the
war offered a challenge of a different kind.
How much grain could a threshing bee get through in a
day? Flossie McKellar, a retired farmer's wife, recalls in
the magazine Early Canadian Life that "like many of our
A RELAXING CHAT -. Don Farwe#l, principal
of St. Joseph's Separate School, Stella Farwell,
a teacher at St. Columban School; Edith
McCarroll, teacher -librarian at the board office;
Ray Contois, principal of St, Columban .and
meighbpurs, we• were .happy if el coitill thresh -14000
bushels of grain all told. which Would take ne entire day,.
if nothing went wrong. Tile oats, which had ;been put in the
barn last. would be threshed -first, the barley next; when,
Wo saw hpar good the yt :ld °_Wasfrom them, we could tell
Whether Wo would need all .our wheat to see the livestock
Through the winter or Whether we might have someto sell,
I£ work Istarted, early .enough in, the InOr*ing'. there WAS at
'#east :a chance that ;by upset every Sheaf would have,
passed through the separator, which could' then be moved:
durng the evening to the next farm."
While the ;neighbouring farmers. Worked a long, hard
day' outside, usually the farmer's wife, assisted: by a
daughter or neighbour'S wife., put in just as long a day at
the stove, One .of the talents needed in feeding
thresherniea was liming your' baking so the pies and! cakes.
and bread could be ,baked before or after the ;Vast went io
the even- One retired farmer said he rernembers lots of
vegetables and pork, and agrees that ""everybody hath a
good feed."
One of the cooks who knows about threshing -meals
firsthand remetnbbrs that roast beef, sometimes wieners
and other hot, meats were always popular with, the
men -that it, unlessit was "dirty, dusty threshing" when
n
the men didn't always feel like downing a big m,ea1,
Other common items onthe menu were hot biscu#ts,
scones, bowls of applesauce and often canned strawberries.
or raspberries, washed down with lots of tea. The men
helped themselves to the food, but it was the ladies:" job to
keep the tattle filled, with steaming bowls of vegetables.
potatoes and. gravy.
Now while cooking in such quantity might faze many
Modern cooks, this lady said, "It was rather enjoyable to
see the men: eat, especially if you, liked to cook."
Eventually, tractors became the order of the day and the
steam engine became a thing of the past, although
nostalgia buffs still have a chance to hear their familiar
shrill whistles at steam thresher's reunions and sometimes.
at county fairs.
Few popple would argue that today's methods of
harvesting are far More dependable and likely speedier
than the threshing methods of yesteryear. But one can't
help being justa, little nostalgic about those days
of
co-operative. harvesting. when the threshing bee was 'a
chance for socialbility as well as good, hard work,.
I'd like M. thank Secord-McBrien, Mr. and Mrs. George
,Addison, Mrs. Isabelle Hunt, George Campbell and Hugh.
McKellar, who wrote article in Early Canadian`=T,iife, for
helping' recall some of the joys of steam threshing days..
Larry Cook, principal of St. Patrick's School
Dublin, and Terry Craig, teacher at the same
school, relax during the noon break at a
professional development day at the school on
Monday:
Kertn`eth:•Nigh of Seaforth
was fined 5492 on five counts.
in county court, Seaforth on
Wednesday. Oct. 17.
Mr. Nigh was fined $103
for creating . unnecessary
noise, 5104 for having liquor
readily • available, 578 for
littering, 5103 for creating
unnecessary noise and $104
for. creating unreasonable
noise,
Other fines went to Louis.
Arts of R.R. 4, Seaforth for,
5104 oil having liquor readily
available in 'motor vehicle
and $104 for consuming_
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liquor in. a motor 'vehicle;
Garald A. Barringer of Sea -
forth 528 forr disobeying a red
light and George Brooks of.
Seaforth and, John Green.' of
R.R. 5, Clinton, "$104 for
having liquor readily avail-
able in a motor vehicle.,
Donald Dale of . Sparling
Street; Seaforth was fined
528 under the Motor Vehicles
Traffic Act for permitting an
Unlicensed person• to drive a .
motor vehicle. Howard, Culli
gan of Ontario Street, Mitch .
ell, was fined $53 for speed-''
ing, Geanie Fehr of R.R. 1,
Seaforth was fined $103 on' a
charge of creating unneces-
sary noise; • Theodore ,lain..
maat of R.U. 2, Seaforth $104
for a minor having liquor
readily available and 528 for
operating a motor vehicle
without prior endorsement,
Gordon Mauer of High
Street, Seaforth was fined
555 for speeding and' James''
McIver of R,R. 2, Staffa was
fined . 5104 for consilniing;'
liquor in a motor vehicle,
Donald J. McClay of Lon-
-don was fined 5104 for
creating unnecessary noi$e
and Aloysitts McQuaid of
Seaforth was fined $104 for'
having liquor readily :avail•
able in a motor vehicle.
lames Parkinson of Seas
forth was fined 5104 as a
Minor having liquor readily
available.
William Seymour of Sea -
forth was fined $28 under the
Motor Vehicles Traffic Act
for failure to produce a
driver's license.
Debbie Simpson of Sea!,
forth was fined $28 .for hot
having an operator's licence.
Wendy Walsh and Jackie'.
Walsh of Clinton, Troy V.
Tanner of London were fined'
5104 each as niinots passer.-
sing liquot.
Harry Whitt of ;Seaforth
Was fined '08 to creating
unneoessi►ry noise.
Kippen
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