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co GRANDFATHER There was also a toasted the bread over took them off and learn how to start a fire (Continued from Page 16) gathering tank to get the coals. As the syrup layed them on top of from small dry sticks >, ready for use. Before was ready to take from the load. He wrapped called kindling. Then to herds used a milking the steel gathering the fire we used to stir his feet in a heavy keep the wood burning cn machine powered by a tanks were used, the it and cool it a little blanket and went on required experience in single cylinder old method was to lay then place it in clean toward town but learning the kinds of A gasoline engine. My two wooden barrels snow, and it became before he got to town wood and if they would father worked on a on a low sled like candy which the wagon got stuck burn even if it was farm that had a milker which was pulled everyone enjoyed. again. He laid the green and how to con- and in the summer around thru the woods Some farms had rail blanket back on the trol the damper in the E-4 evenings we could by horses. The sugar fences which required load and had to put on flu and the air draft x hear the engine runn- shack was usually into a lot of maintenance his boots which were below the grate. ing over a mile away so the side of a hill and and a lot of material to frozen and very cold on Most kitchen cooking when the engine was the sled was pulled up make one. The zig zag his feet. ranges burned wood, I shut off we knew that to the high side of the pattern took up a lot of The dinner bell was usually smaller than co a he would soon be com- shack and the sap was room and the sharper in use on nearly every the heating stove. A ing home to be with us. drained from the bar- the corner the better farm where work was fire box was on one His pay was $1.00 per rels into a wooden they stood up and also done by man and side of the stove with I day for 12 hours. That trough which carried required splitting more animals, but as the an oven adjacent so i was average pay for a the sap to the holding rails. Some rail fences machines took over the heat could circulate farm hand in 1924. In tank inside. A storage were handy as they and made loud noises under the top and the 30's a man could tank was near the boil- could be taken away it made it impossible around the oven. Some get .10 per hour on ing area. As the and replaced for con- to hear the clang of the ranges had a water some jobs. They raised gathering tank was fill- venience. Our one sec- bell. Because of this reservoir to keep some - hogs to butcher and ed it was brought to tion was taken down they were used less water warm most of i sold some at the com- the boiling area and every year when we and less. Also about the time. This was fill- mercial stock yards. emptied into the threshed grain to make that time more men ed and emptied by Many families raised holding tank. A large room to put the were able to buy wat- hand. This water was chickens, ducks, geese supply of wood had to machinery where ches and the bells were used for baths or laun- a n d turkeys. The be kept on hand to necessary so the straw not really necessary. dry. Water for cooking I chickens gave a supply make a hot fire to boil would be close to the One great change was heated in a tea of eggs to use in cook- the sap to syrup at the barn to use on the barn that has been very kettle and was fresh i ing and some chickens rate of 50 gallons of floor for horses and noticable is in the type from the well. were killed and dress- sap to make 1 gallon of cows to lay on. of swim suits. Women During the years ed to cook in the home. syrup. Maple sugar After threshing the wore bathing suits that when plowing the Some of the poultry was made from the fence was put back to covered their bodies fields was done by j would be sold on the syrup by boiling it to a keep the horses and from their shoulders to horses some small market. heavier syrup then stir- cows in place. below their knees. farms had 2 or 3 horses In the spring maple ring it until it turned to When I was a small Men wore suits that and used a "walking syrup was made on sugar. Maple sugar boy there was not very had a full body cover plow." Some had many farms. Wooden was used for sweeten- much rubber foot wear and legs like started using riding pails were taken from ing food before cane to keep our feet dry. underwear, many were plows. On large farms storage and set into (white) sugar was There were overshoes colorful with stripes they began to use the soft snow and available. One family with cloth top that had going around them. "gang" plows, still pull- water poured into was said to have 80 rubber soles. These Bathing suits were for ed by horses. And as them to make sure that l b s. of sugar by were light and warm wearing at the beach each field or portion they would hold maple February 1st back and good to play in out- only and since the type was nearing comple- sap. As time passed before 1900. During the side in the cold and of suits has changed tion it was interesting the wooden pails syrup season we en- snow, but water came drastically to cover the to see what would run disappeared in favor of joyed having several through if one waded bare essentials many out as the last cover for metal ones. The fire people come to visit in the puddles. Before women wear such birds and animals was arch had to be made and would prepare a these overshoes out- clothing and have in- turned by the plow. safe to hold up the picnic lunch. It was a door workers wore tentions of going swim- This last stage we call- pans of hot sap as it snap to cook because leather boots with a ming. ed "running the rabbits was being evaporated of all the heat. heavy felt liner. My Most rural homes out". As the tractors by heat until it was Potatoes were baked grardfatherwas hauling were heated in winter took over this job the syrup. The trees had to under the ashes in the grain to market one by a large black noise and vibration be tapped and spiles fire arch, eggs were winter and his trip took heating stove in the liv- was so great that all driven into the trees to placed in a bucket of him through several ing room. This required animals escaped well direct the sap into the boiling sap, and meat low and wet spots. The carrying in a lot of before the last soil pail and hold its posi- was cooked over the wagon got stuck in a wood of proper size was turned. While tion to catch the liquid. open fire. We also low area and he had to and length to make plowing with horses get off the wagon and sure the fire would we used to find bird put the team on the hold until the next day. nests on the ground rear and pull the Ashes had to be clean- beside a tall weed and wagon to higher ed out from below the would liked to have ground. While he was grates about once a doing this his leather week in real cold See GRANDFATHER WELCOME boots got wet and he winter. One had to (Continued on Page 22) TO • BUILDER NEW e DEVELOPER SULT BACKHOE & BULLDOZING DESIGNER CARLISLE of Septic Tanks - Drywells New Homes Field Systems LOTS AVAILABLE IN CHAPMAN'S NEWEST ADDITION Gravel, Stones, Slag, Topsoil, Fill Phone 654-3452 Landscaping CHAPMAN BUILDER AND DEVELOPER PHONE 289-5190