The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-07-13

covered In the ancient way. The machine
attacks the standing grain, cut it. binds IL
In sheaves, and losses them ASIDE with n
finished. impatient motion. still later
development has come with improved
machinery. Wheat. which used to require
cutting before IL was fairly ripe in order
that the last Of the field might be finished
before il became too ripe, may nov be per-
mitted TO grow yellow and rich with the
filed grain before sound OF the sickle is
heard. Thus matured it may be thrashed
at once.
From Sickle to Thrashing Floor.
The thrashing machine is set in readi-
ness at the barn and the harvester Is
driven into the field while the
fire is building under the boiler i'm
the engine which is to drive the sep
arator If the field be large the reaper
is adjusted with an elevator or endless
belt that carries the fallen grain up over
n roller and drops IL into the broad bed OF
"A wagon driven alongside, When the wagon
is full it goes to the thrashing machine
and another wagon takes its place under
the elevator The grain in the straS is
pitched to the table OF the separator and
fed into the cylinder by n careful man.
Wheat that was standing and waving in
the morning sunshine is heaped in lint at
evening" visible. golden answer to the
prayer: "Glve us this day our daily bread. :"
Harvest time used to be season OF terror
for the women who must cook for II Gro Wi
OF hungry men none too tender OF speech,
none { % slow To complain. What rave nous
eaters they were! Add what wreck they
made OF loaded table.
Courtesy Among Housewives.
Women in the country borrow Il good
deal one from the ether They are long
way from market. and if need be they can
school themselves 10 get along with very
! little. But when social skies are clear each
housewife cen find plenty of excuse for
stunning over to the neishbOr's house"
II haven't any right u come without
! bring home something of yours know
that" pro ests the visitor; "but l wanted
t. use IL colander, and wondered IL you
was using yours
OF course the woman visited has no
thought Of ever needing the colander, and
! in the granting OF requests the time Ct
visit is extended till approaching dinner
honr compcls return, 1t isn't much, but 1t
| is social lite for the country woman.
There is less formality in the domestic
! life OF the countrymen. Brown takes his
] family 10 spend Sunday with Jones and
"his folksn Mrs Brown assists in wash
ing up the dinner dishes. exchanging g)s-
sip the while, and trading recipe for
graham bread and sweet pickles If the
/ doctor be called upon in case OF sickness,
and he needs tumbler or spoon, or "A bit
| of sugar, he goes to the cupboard and
! finds il. "Helps himself say the neigh
bors. and they like him for IT, OF course
/ the younger doctors take no such privi-
! 10 Scs but il is doubtful if they win more
| patrons or heal the sick more readily than
| do the old men who jog along behind in
ferior horses. and hum lullaby while pa
tiently trcading muddy roads in the gloom
! of a starless night
Had to Borrow Fire.
But the muddy road * becoming thing
OF the past 7 lie draining Is reclaiming
/ the low places in fields. and successive con-
/ tributiOns of gravel are raising the high
ways above the quagmires and quicksands
Of an early day. Good roads bring the
farmer nearer town. He supplies his house
! hold with all things needful. and marker :
] his pro uce with the minimum OF trouble.