Download or read book Horse Drawn Days written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before tractors or steam engines arrived on the farm, horses did all the heavy work. From spring plowing to the fall harvest, the mighty draft horse powered farms across the Midwest. Relied upon to complete a multitude of tasks, including towing threshing machines and plows, hauling milk to the local cheese factory, and pulling the family buggy to church each Sunday, these animals were at the center of farm life, cementing the bond between human and horse. Horse-Drawn Days: A Century of Farming with Horses captures stories of rural life at a time when a team of horses was a vital part of the farm family. Author Jerry Apps pairs lively historic narrative with reminiscences about his boyhood on the family farm in Wisconsin to paint a vivid picture of a bygone time. Featuring fascinating historic photos, ads, and posters, plus contemporary color photos of working horses today, Horse-Drawn Days evokes the majesty of these animals and illuminates the horse’s role in our country’s early history and our rural heritage.
Download or read book Old Days on the Farm written by A. C. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 100 Years of Vintage Farm Tractors written by Michael Dregni and published by . This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tribute to 100 years of vintage farm tractors is for all those who "get it": those who appreciate the lines of a recently restored tractor glistening in the sun; those who get goosebumps at the distinctive sounds of the famous Poppin' Johnnies; those who plan their budgets and days around the careful restoration of that Minne-Mo or Farmall.
Download or read book Good Old Days Remembers Working on the Farm written by Ken Tate and published by DRG Wholesale. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-life stories will take you back to the time when families stood shoulder to shoulder, working against Depression, dearth and drought to build a better life together.
Download or read book Being Neighbours written by Catharine Anne Wilson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change. Being Neighbours takes us into the heart of neighbourhood – the set of people near and surrounding the family – through an examination of work bees in southern Ontario from 1830 to 1960. The bee was a special event where people gathered to work on a neighbour’s farm like bees in a hive for a wide variety of purposes, including barn raising, logging, threshing, quilting, turkey plucking, and apple paring. Drawing on the diaries of over one hundred men and women, Catharine Wilson takes readers into families’ daily lives, the intricacies of their labour exchange, and their workways, feasts, and hospitality. Through the prism of the bee and a close reading of the diaries, she uncovers the subtle social politics of mutual dependency, the expectations neighbours had of each other, and their ways of managing conflict and crisis. This book adds to the literature on cooperative work that focuses on evaluating its economic efficiency and complicates histories of capitalism that place communal values at odds with market orientation. Beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed and illustrated, Being Neighbours reveals the visceral textures of rural life.
Download or read book Two Minute Tales written by Rex Reeson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-Minute Tales is a fast-paced collection of flash fiction and short stories. They are organized by length, so whether you have "Just a Minute," "A Minute or Two," or "A Few Minutes More" you'll find a story perfect for you. H. C. Heartland captures emotion and heart in Father of a Bricklayer and Happy Hearts. Ever wonder what happens when the lights go out in the library? Never Checked Out gives you a glimpse. And finally, she explores her heritage in A Thousand Voices Heard. Rex Reeson's debut features his clever writing style. See things from the perspective of a raindrop in Drip. Go on vacation with a group of fiddler crabs in Vahh Cahshun. Enjoy a good old ball game in Knuckleball, fight a cold in On the Ropes, and spend a day down in the trenches with Colt McGuiness. B. B. Smith provides the scenario and calls on your imagination to fill in the blanks in Only One, Pass the Salt and Lost and Found. You'll cheer for the husbandly hero in The List and sneer at the dastardly Malcolm.
Download or read book Son of a Brewer written by Armand De Clercq and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 1997 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blackwood s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Trout in the Milk written by Mel Harmon and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." (Henry David Thoreau) There are two great branches of evidence in a Criminal Case. They are direct evidence and circumstantial evidence. The meaning of direct evidence is as plain as the nose on your face. A first grader can easily grasp the concept. Whatever a person perceives with any of his physical senses is direct evidence. If you see a crime happen that is direct evidence. And if you smell it or touch it or taste it or hear it as it happens -- that is also direct evidence. Everything else is circumstantial. Therefore, the meaning of circumstantial evidence is easily comprehended and just as easily categorized. If it isn't direct evidence it's circumstantial evidence. And if there's a trout in a can of milk, we know the farmer has dipped his can into a stream of water. We didn't see him do it, but we know the squiggly rainbow didn't come from a cow's udder. The finned scrapper getting his first taste of milk is irrefutable circumstantial evidence of dairy farmer duplicity!
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earnings of Agricultural Labourers written by Great Britain. Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmlines Living In the Days of Dumb Phones and Analog Apps written by Dan Gogerty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmlines are the threads that connect people to a place-in this case, a family farm in a time when kids downloaded games in the grove or haymow or from a Parker Brothers box; where they accessed apps by running out the door to a tree house, snow fort, or pickup baseball game; where they made social media connections by talking, scheming, sharing, fighting, and linking up with kids in the community. Times change, but these Farmlines continue to get passed along through stories, daily activities, hopes, disappointments, subtle rituals-through handwritten letters and homemade bread. Comments about Gogerty's Writing "Gogerty develops snapshot messages that expand to enhance the entire narrative. His writing is incredibly clear and yet so lyrical that its precision is not too formal. He infuses the essays with lots of humor and good will and peaceful energy." Holly Carver, editor and publisher, Iowa City
Download or read book Verdi written by Verdi Gilbertson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I chuckled quite a few times reading these stories and imagining Grandpa telling them. Eric Gilbertson MIT 2008, 2010 Grandpa's book is fun to read. It's just amazing all that Grandpa went through as a line man on the telephone company. It makes hiking up Mount Washington in January seem like hiking along the beach. Matthew Gilbertson MIT 2008, 2010 Grandpa doesn't talk about the fighting during the World War II. He talks about the many towns he went through and the people he met. He thinks more about the good things and experiences rather than dwelling on any bad ones he might have had. Jacob Gilbertson St Vincent College 2012
Download or read book It Happened in Southern Illinois written by John W. Allen and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of articles describing the people, places, and folkways of southern Illinois, John W. Allen provides entertaining and informative glimpses into the region’s past. Included here are sketches of the early pioneering days when wolves were literally chased from the door, stories about the many Indian artifacts discovered among the rolling hills and valleys of the area, and articles pertaining to the strategic role the region played during the Civil War. Allen also describes the activities of such infamous outlaws as Samuel Mason and the Harpe brothers as well as the famous Illinois-born heroes “Bat” Masterson, “Wild Bill” Hickok, and Wyatt Earp. In his warm and friendly style, Allen reminisces about the self-sufficient and satisfying rural life of a previous generation with its oxcarts, pie suppers, threshing machines, kerosene lamps, and blacksmith shops. Any reader interested in southern Illinois and its history will delight in this collection of stories from John W. Allen’s popular newspaper column, “It Happened in Southern Illinois.”
Download or read book The Harvest Story written by Robert T. Rhode and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harvest Story depicts the life of rural American threshermen. This collection of first-person narratives chronicles the eyewitness accounts of people who threshed grain with steam engines. The book selects anecdotes from over 50 volumes of material published in The Iron-Men Album Magazine from 1946 until 2001 and arranges them in a coherent recitation. The result is a story of hard, honest work, of heartfelt cooperation and of triumph not unmarred by tragedy. Readers hear the recollections of those who pitched the bundles of grain onto the horse-drawn wagons, unloaded these bundles into the threshing machine, and saw the stream of clean wheat cascade from the grain auger. Readers encounter the wit and humor that characterized yesteryear's harvests. They learn about the vast industries that supported the agricultural enterprise, and they discover the dangers posed by mechanical equipment. The Harvest Story concludes by examining the birth and development of a movement to rescue the agrarian past from oblivion. This book captures authentic voices from the era of steam-powered threshing and offers readable interpretation and explanation, including detailed appendices.
Download or read book Old Farm Country Cookbook written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet most folks living on farms had plenty to eat. Preparing food from scratch was just the way things were done, and people knew what was in their food and where it came from. Delicious meals were at the center of every family and social affair, whether it be a threshing-day dinner with all the neighbors, the end-of-school-year picnic, or just a hearty supper after chores were done. As Jerry writes, "For me food will always be associated with times of good eating, storytelling, laughter, and good-hearted fun." Inspired by the dishes made by his mother, Eleanor, and featuring recipes found in her well-worn recipe box, Jerry and his daughter, Susan, take us on a culinary tour of life on the farm during the Depression and World War II. Seasoned with personal stories, menus, and family photos, Old Farm Country Cookbook recalls a time when electricity had not yet found its way to the farm, when making sauerkraut was a family endeavor, and when homemade ice cream tasted better than anything you could buy at the store.
Download or read book The Reader s Digest written by DeWitt Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
