August 16, 1963
Friday, nice day. I worked in am and girls and I went to Middleburgh in am. I made slip cover for Gerald's car in am. Wyckoff’s started to cut hay on the field behind the house.
Comment: Don't remember the slip cover, not sure which car it was. The lot behind the house was about 20 acres and some years, probably in the forties, we planted corn. I have a distant memory of Uncle Merel, while cutting corn in that lot by hand, slipping with the corn knife and severely cutting his forearm. The corn knives had a curved blade that was used to "pull" cut several stalks at a time and then the cutter would bundle the cut stalks into a "shocks" and these would be loaded on a wagon and taken to a ensilage cutter to be ground up and blown into a silo. Now, if you Google corn cutter, the only things that comes up are kitchen utensils for getting the kernels off sweet corn cobs......
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| Dad on Tractor, Uncle Johnny Haskin, Albert Reed Marilyn & Me....1940 in the lot behind the house |
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