August 5 - 11, 1948

Helen Adcox, 1936

In an earlier post I talked about "binders." This link will give you a good idea of how the binder worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ekJFOxUhy4

August 5: "Got up early this morning and worked around home all morning. Went to Coddingtons to thresh early noon. Got all his oats threshed, but only about half his wheat threshed. Got home late this evening."

August 6: "Got up early this morning. Done chores around home, then went threshing around nine o'clock. Got done at Coddington's by noon. I loaded a load of bundles at Luick's before dinner. Stayed there for dinner. Got done threshing at Luick's about 4:00. Went to Eicher's and threshed 10 acres of oats yet this evening. I got home at 8 o'clock. Went to Peoria to get Mom."

August 7: "Got up early this morning. Got ready to thresh at Dan's. Loaded a load of bundles before dinner. Started early noon, was pretty wet. Got all done but 3 loads of bundles, it was too wet. Got home about 6:30. Done chores then went up to Ervin Kahlers for the evening. Bill Schurter's were there."

August 8: "Got up rather late this morning. did chores, then went to timber to see if cows were all rite. Layed around most of day. did chores early, and went to Dan's for evening."

August 9: "Got up early this morning. Did chores, and started to turn oats. Cows were in corn, had to fix fence. Went threshing early Monday noon at Schmidt's. Didn't get home till seven o'clock. Helen finished turning oats shocks."

August 10: "Got up early this morning. Dan went through bridge with load of dirt on truck. Wasshn't hurt much. Finished threshing at Schmidt's and Dan's. Started at our place at 3 o'clock threshed till 6:30."

August 11: "Got up early this morning. Done chores, put cows in timber. Then turned oats shocks so we could thresh. Got 1 load loaded before dinner. Then started after dinner, but it rained about 2:30. Went to fair at Lincoln this evening, Dan's went along."

sweeper & attach.   17.85

fair   1.90

gro   1.39