The Homeplace Daily Morning Morning Chores for men in the mid-19th century begin with caring for and feeding livestock. Fall agricultural demands range from harvesting crops, curing tobacco, plowing, repairing fences and rebuilding barns and implements. Quilts, coverlets and winter clothes were laid out to air as farm women churned butter, made lye soap or dipped candles in preparation for the long winter nights ahead. Daily Afternoon Shorter days with less light encourage a steady rhythm of chores as the day winds down. The men may be found cutting firewood or snaking timber from the forest with oxen.
Tobacco is cured and marketed, and corn is harvested.
The women tighten the house against the coming cold, storing food harvest or making the final stitches on winter clothing. By 4 pm, the farm family searches for livestock. Farm events and demonstrations are best enjoyed between 10 am and 4 pm. A Traditional Quilting Bee Quilting was both an artistic and social outlet for women in the 19th century. Farm wives were eager to leave chores behind for a day of quilting and visiting.