Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-01-04

1853 by Asa Earl and McKenny
was present with his father at
the raising, having come with
his parents to Harris Grove i'm
November, 1851. and lived in a
cabin built by the Mormons I'M
Til 1868, and the memory of that
old log cabin furnished The model
from which the cabin was built.
McKenny is now n years old.
The cabin was built on
board about 2x3 feet. The length
of the logs is SNi0 inches. height
about Z inches, logs about 1 inch
i'm diameter except the ridge
poles, which hold the shakes or
clapboards that form the cover
or roof i'm place. they being much
smaller.
Pins Hold Ridge Pole.
The cave ridge pole is held in
place by a pin at each end and
the next ONE is held i'm place by
pieces of wood the desired length,
one end resting against the first
polo, the other end holding the
second pole, and so on up, ono
being required for each length OF
shakes. The weight . of these
poles answers i'm the place of
nails. Colorcd putty is used in
The model to stop the cracks be-
tween the logs of the cabin and
the sticks of which the fireplace
and chimney are built. Mud with
hay cut i'm short bits and mixed
was used to stop the
spaces between the logs of habit
able cabins. The door opens out
and sows the wooden hinges but
does not show the "cat-hole,"
place left i'm most doors for Tab
by's use. Their duty was to mar
kel the mice.
Three Styles of Fence.
The fence is built of rails and
shows three styles The one to
the left is called a rail fence,
stalcd and double ridcred; the
one i'm front, straight fence. The
rails arc held i'm place by stakes
sci i'm the ground at each length
of rail" and held i'm place at the
upper end by hickory sprouts
heated i'm hot ashes and wound
about the stakes. This style of
fence was called 'sdooryard"
fence. The fence TO the right
was used where the STOCK was
not liable to bother it, but WAS
easily blown down.
Articles of Farm Use.
The cradle used in cutting
J small grain, the rake by which
the grain was fashioned into
sheaves. and the fail, used Ia
heat the grain loose from the
straw, are shown on the roof
These tools did all the harvest
work i'm Harris Grove up TO the
year 1856.
/ Leaning agains the corner ol
the cabin is the A-drag used lol
covering he small grains viii
earth after hing sown by han1
and for the first cultivatlon -
corn. Leaning against the fence
is shown the one-horse, single
shovel pillow, used i'm the cultlNa
lion of corn and potatoes. Nea'
and i'm front of the window is Tia
Fashioned grindslone and Tia
shaving horse used by the earl,
settlers for hold large or small
. pieces of wood while being fash
toned into article OF use such a
pillow beams. wagon tongues, o.
r bows, handles of all kinds, etc
!, The main or under piece OF tn
a horse, fun size, was usually mad
y fro ma slab split from the sid
of The log and. the flat side mad
a smooth with the broad AK, show
leaning against The cabin nca
a the grindslone. The upper piece
!, usually four or five feet Ion
q and eight inches wide by thre
f inches thick, fastened with pin
at one end TO the main piece an
held i'm a convenient position b
a block placed under the othe
end. The head or upright wa
made from a piece of wood 81
n inches square sawed at ri9i
a angles into The piece, three inch
n es Don one side. four inches fro1
q to pend and two inches on OPP
posile side and six inches lrol
n top. The piece, except the tol
was then reduced TO Ike and fas
lencG in slots made through tn
center of both pieces of the hors
q by a wooden pin passing throuG
Il the upper piece and holes in Tn
headpiece by which it was regu
If lated TO hold different size
N pieces. The operator sat astrlo
y the horse where the draw-knil
= is shown and operated the head
" piece by placing his foot on tn
;, treatdle.