Discussion includes farming (farmers helping each other with threshing and silo filling), selling eggs and milk, cooking, and traveling/plowing in snow. Family names mentioned: Cantine, Hasbrouck, Schoonmaker, Hardenburgh, Bishop, Rose.
The threshing machine was used to separate the grain (wheat, rye etc) from the stalks of the plant. On the left is a wagon full of cut sheaves of grain. The man on the top of the pile is bundling stalks to pass to the second man on the wagon. A...
