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The Acton Free Press Wednesday January w mm History of Halton Farming methods in the horse age 80 Holstein breeders attend annual meeting C is president Here another article En a were pitched on and off the load taken from a history of by hand and building the load written for Halton required a considerable skill Women Institutes by Ben Case Later a track similar to that In of the area There the hayloft was built and the are only three copies of unloading taken care of by history In the Free The load was built Into Press had borrowed one to share four bundles each tied with slings the story with oar readers and the bundles hauled up one at a time They were run along the track and dumped Into the mow more or less where wanted VILLAGES Another and perhaps earlier method was to have the whole The mills often formed the hauled up by nucleus of a village growing up windlass to a greater height than as the surrounding district groin already In the wooden hand rake When cured the hay was put up Into colls against the time It could be hauled in being pitched on and off Ihe load by hand This was one of the hardest Jobs on the farm A hoyfork installed at the barn lifting large forkfuta at time and operated by horses took the hay into the loft and along a track suspended from the peak of the roof Thia eliminated a great deal of hard work Later a hayloader drawn behind the wagon was a great help in the field Along about 1640 a threshing machine about four feet by four feet by five feet high mode Its appearance with a revolving spiked cylinder which knocked off the heads of the grain with the operator tossing the aside It was powered by horses working cither on a tread milt or at a sort of merrygoround outside the barn By the latter At first it was run by horse power and later power was supplied by an upright steamengine which was drawn from farm lo farm by horses It was necessary for each individual farmer to have a pile of wood stacked nearby for stoking the engine The next step was a traction engine whereby the built on the lines of a locomotive was geared to propel became settled Surting with the that it could be pitched off down method two three or four horses mill hands a store or two would hill Into the mow be opened then the inevitable similarly with haying the tavern and eventually schools horeedrawn haymower with a and churches community cutting blade similar to the would require many products reaper replaced the Also produced by hand in the era j horserake replaced the before the advent of the factory would be hitched to long arms running out from a central cog wheel with small boy keeping the horses going round In circle In time a larger separator or thresher made Its appearance By J Stanley Some BO and friends mot In the North Community Centre on Thursday morning Jan for their annual meeting lucst speaker Smith how It possible to llvlruj a dairy herd With Just cows milking ho Is to finance his four In and one son in high school lie Itself along the road to the stated that you no wonderment or the whole com- on a small farm not to try going to and especially of a larger one He ruled Iho boys whose great was following as Hits Important to steal a ride on nmuiing on a dairy farm the wife who contraption make dairying for The threshing gang of three or nil the family you the four stayed fur the night at the and finally the cow farm house where the outfit was Mr Smith stated you should set located Dinner and supper were goals that you can reach In served by Iho ladies of dairy business If you get clone to household to all including the tho goal then rnlso it You must neighbors perhaps twenty all go further than Just having good tola who at the cattle you must grow good threshing As tho culinary feed Ho also cautioned turners reputation of each farmers wife and hence the village would contain tailors blacksmith wheelwrights and tinsmiths bakers and later a rVlTrn livery stable or two These early 5ELFBINDEjRv5 would generally be found near a source of water- power although along the in the presence of water transportation gave the Impetus whereby a town sprang FARMING METHODS We have seen how the early crop had to be sown between the stumps and it would be several years before a field was even tually cleared so that a plough could be used to advantage The grain was cut with a cradle and by hand being first raked into bundles with a wooden rake and bound Into sheaves It is not that many men are left in the county today who could bind by hand using a few wheat or oat stalks of twine The sheaves were stocked In the field as a protection against rain and eventually taken to the barn During the course of the fall or winter the grain was spread out on the barn floor and threshed with a flail a method which changed since the days the Egyptians and Romans THE HORSE AGE After clearing the land of logs and stumps at which task oxen showed up to great advantage horses were greatly to be preferred largely because of the greater speed at which they could pull a plough or wagon Smiths book Canada Past Present and Future shows that by there were 717 horses in compared with oxen four yean old and over while in which was settled somewhat later oxen still predominated there being oxen as against K7 horses Down at the front to the township the proportion of horses would be much higher still In the 1830s the horsedrawn reaper was made fay Cyrus in the and by its use bad spread over the continent With the the grain was cut with a sliding knife similar to that still use today A revolving rati bent the grain as it was cut onto a table and a man standing a side step raked the grain off in bundles tbe right for binding by Eventually in tbe 80s a self was invented whereby the sheaves were automatically bound with twine At first the sheave were dropped individually but later a sheafcarrier was added to drop eight or ten sheaves at a time to facilitate Mooting grain was then hauled into the bun and threshing attended to later In the year The sheaves was stake the women of tho neighborhood vied with each other as to aunnttty and quality of Hie served at their respective tables In the early days a In tho form of moving canvas used to convey the straw from tho separator lo a straw stack In tho barnyard Building this stack was about the worst Job at tho threshing as the dust from dirt rust and smut would soon blacken the person at the of the camera learned how lo avoid this Job and It was usually assigned to greenhorn or falling thai to hired man Later on a blower was a great Improvement as waa automatically cut up and blown into the mow to be kept con venient dry for feed bedding during the winter months The changing structure of the barns over the years la worth noting Following log barn a framed barn with possibly ad joining stables shecp- Investing too much In machinery He suggested that the farmer should do the best he can with what he has and not always be looking to something different year Howard a director of the lesion Association Canada brought greetings to Iho meeting as did Martin tho first vicepresident hist year record year for the breed with now In numbers of registrations trniiBfcrs exports new in I certificates and number of cattle classified A noon lunch was provided by the wives of county Holstein directors Winners of the varioun trophies and certificates throughout the year were honored New officers The now officers of the Club for are Past Fred Nurse president were low the cost the buildings would be comparatively low with only a cost outlay of a hun dred dollars an indication of tho changing times costs the writer had a stable rerVlodellcd In 1040 by a qualified barn framcr at Iho going rate of Three Dollars a day The Job took one hundred days and the labor cost was At todays rates lOflB for one hundred days work labor cost would run to at the very least Towards the later part of 19th century and early in this one bank barns were built on most farms A basement at ground level was built of stone with the walls 10 to 12 feet high On this either the old bam was raised or a new framework built with granary mows and hay lofts Again most of the material come off the place and such bam would actually cost less than seventyfive years ago advantages of such a barn wore considerable with ail the stock housed in warmer quarters and built on ground with the feed much more etc level The framing consisted of handhewn beams 12 to Inches square and the frame r had to be a master of his trade with a mastery over such things as Elates purlins mortises braces etc The sheathing either clapboard or upright Choose It from cant GMC trucks ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS 4S ft GEORGETOWN NOTICE TO ALL HOUSEHOLDERS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS HAVING TROUBLE WITH YOUR PRESENT HEATING OR WATER HEATING UNIT DONT WAIT UNTIL THE FURNACE BOILER SPACE HEATER OR WATER HEATER EXPIRES CHANGE NOW TO CLEAN QUIET SERVICE FREE ECONOMICAL DEPENDABLE NATURAL GAS LET US GIVE YOU A SPECIAL PREPARATORY ESTIMATE WITH NO OBLIGATION ATTACHED BY CALLING UNITED GAS LIMITED SALES HAMILTON 5251812 BURLINGTON 6378211 0AKVILLE 8454297 MILTON ACTON 8772491 OR 8773921 GEORGETOWN Georgetown IF YOU ARE NOT PRESENTLY LOCATED ON A GAS MAIN BUT NOT TOO FAR DISTANT CALL ANYWAY AS WE CAN ALWAYS EXTEND OUR LINES AT NO COST TO YOURSELF By H Stanley Claude Inglls was chosen as Arnold Fish first vicepresident president of the Soil and J C field second vicepresident crop Improvement Association J Ford Ralph at their annual meeting on Ford Directors Bill Bcrmett Wednesday Jan the Master Murray Harris Feeds Research Farm in Colin Marshall Bruce MeClure Georgetown Other executive McDonald Ken Murray members and directors are as Jeff Nurse Joe follows vice president Colin Dennis Sinclair Bertram Marshall Milton representative to secretarytreasurer Henry Farm Safety Council Stanley OntDept of Agriculture Ralph Ford representative on Milton directors Sire Committee of United Harold Arnold Fish Breeders Tom McGee Sales Clarence Ford Jr representative Martin Alexander Harvey Nurse Earl Wilson it Bell Murray Harris i i Harold Russell One sixth of stolen In John K Bruce North America become Involved to the Hcatherlngton 3 Ontario Safety reminds Representative to you to leave your car locked at all times even on your own And dont leave It wllson parked down back alleys It Is safer on a welllighted well- Is a lazy mans estimate frequented street a workers success ccssiblc above the Some barns were enddrive with the upper doors and gangway at one end The result shallower mows were more convenient for pitching off loads and mowing back A barnraising was a feature of country life in those boards sawn from logs cut on the days being an occasion for a farm and hauled to the nearby neighborhood gathering since sawmill As the cutting and manpower of the whole hauiing would be largely taken was required for such an care of by the farmer and wages undertaking FRESH Ontario CHICKENS CANADA 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