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00:00:02 - Mr. and Mrs. Wery married in 1935 and then left the farm until 6 years ago (1970).

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00:00:18 - Mrs. Wery was born and raised at this farm.

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00:00:24 - The shed and outdoor oven south of the house are torn down now. Grandmother used to bake in the oven.

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00:01:37 - Used outdoor oven until they got a kitchen stove.

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00:02:10 - They had battery-run electricity on the farm.

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00:03:18 - Mrs. Wery's father's name is Michael Tureur.

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00:03:32 - The present house is log with brick veneer, and was built by a Parins family. The bricks were put on in 1917.

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00:04:50 - Summer kitchens were used in order to keep the main house cool.

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00:05:39 - As a child (11-12 yrs.) Mrs. Wery made meals and drove horses at harvest time.

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00:06:16 - They got tractors about 1934 (Mrs. Wery is 59 now and was born in 1917).

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00:07:55 - The pigpen is now across the road but the road (path) used to be on the other side of this building.

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00:08:49 - The pigs were always seperated from the other animals until they gave birth. The pigpen was built by Parins.

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00:09:47 - Parins built: threshing floor, cow barn, granary, Tureurs built: chicken coop, summer kitchen.

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00:10:20 - Mr. Tureur raised chickens and sold eggs and chicks in the spring.

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00:11:04 - They sold the eggs in Fontaine's store on Co. N for 10 to 15 cents a doz.

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00:11:31 - They took 30 doz. cases to Fontaine's at one time and exchanged it for flour.

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00:11:43 - They took grain to the mill in Luxemburg to make their own flour in winter.

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00:12:04 - They used the barter system at Fontaine's; traded eggs for flour, yard goods, etc.

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00:12:31 - Fontaine's has been closed for 5 years now (since 1971).

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00:12:56 - They used to have a brooder inside the northeast corner of the house.

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00:13:44 - Garage, wood shed, summer kitchen, and machine shed were built by Mr. Tureur.

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00:14:16 - The threshing floor has an old and new section.

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00:14:53 - There is a straw stack south of the threshing floor. The straw was blown and stored there.

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00:16:17 - Someone usually came around with a machine for threshing. They raised grains such as oats, wheat and barley.

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00:16:54 - Discussion of which crops were grown on which acres.

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00:18:17 - Constructing trailer houses for the daughter's and son's family is common in the area.

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00:18:54 - The garden used to be between the barn and the house with a path leading to the barn along the north side of it.

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00:19:41 - The orchard and garden were together. (orchard to south and west of garden) The plot used to be hay and was later worked up into a garden.

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00:20:33 - They planted potatoes, beets, carrots, pumpkin, sweet corn, cabbage, etc. in the garden.

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00:21:00 - They had no herb garden, but planted dill in the large garden for cucumbers.

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00:21:33 - They planted cow beets on wet land beside the pigpen. They were dug in the fall and stored in the basement.

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00:22:42 - There was a post and barbed wire fence around the garden, and also around the cow yard next to the barn.

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00:23:39 - Some fruit trees were to the north of the garden. (plum and cherry) They were canned or made into sauce.

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00:24:23 - There used to be a smokehouse on the property.

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00:24:58 - The family fished a lot. They would put the fish in a salt brine overnight and smoke them the next day.

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00:25:16 - Three families lived together on this farm (the Tureurs, her uncle Jean's family, and her grandma and grandpa).

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00:26:15 - They fished for herring in the winter. Usually caught 300-400 fish.

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00:27:09 - There was an ice shed to the north of the garage, they packed chucks of ice, cut from the Bay, in sawdust during the summer time.

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00:28:57 - Most other farms in the area did not have ice sheds.

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00:29:20 - The basement floor is still earthen.

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00:29:55 - They washed the sawdust off the ice at the well before bringing it in the house.

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