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00:00:05 - Butter and egg selling (continued).

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00:00:27 - Boy's clothing. His mother was a seamstress and sewed for the neighborhood.

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00:00:34 - Churning butter. Butter was made in a churn. The process took a long time.

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00:01:23 - As a boy he wore knitted stockings to above his knees, which his mother had knitted.

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00:01:55 - Danish people in Denmark, WI. They settled in Denmark where Danes were. They would spin yarn and knit mittens.

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00:03:04 - The Danish people were extremely polite in requesting item from the store.

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00:04:03 - Wooden shoes were worn for farm work and taken off before entering the house. They were painted black. Later leather shoes came into style.

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00:05:51 - Keeping warm on the wagon box in winter. To keep warm while driving in the winter in a wagon meant putting hay in with hot stones or a jug of hot water and covering up with a smelly horse blanket.

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00:06:53 - To dry out wet shoes, oats were heated in the oven and put into the shoes.

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00:08:07 - Beer making. Beer was made in a cedar tub over a vat. Boiling water was poured over the hops. The process took at least a day. The beer barrels were rosin. The beer barrels were sometimes borrowed from the bars until fall.

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00:10:15 - Drinking beer at harvest time. A lot of beer was consumed during the harvesting season.

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00:11:12 - Shingle making. Shingles were made from pieces of cut cedar. They were cut with the grain and therefore more water resistant than the milled cross-cut ones.

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00:12:03 - Some shingles were taken to the bay and sold.

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00:12:48 - Layout of the farmyard. A few barns near Rosiere might still have the old hand made shingles.

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00:14:45 - The buildings on the farm land formed a square.

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00:15:48 - The area contained a summer kitchen, since using the regular iron stove would also heat up the house.

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00:16:11 - The log barn was used to store hay and keep the horses and cows.

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00:17:22 - Folk medicine. On the spot treatment for an axe cut consisted of covering the wound with cobwebs to stop the bleeding.

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00:18:20 - Fever in the leg was treated by wrapping the foot with crushed onions and bandaging tightly. This took down the swelling.

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00:19:11 - More about farmyard buildings and threshing. The frame barn was used to store bundles of grain and hay.

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00:19:28 - Some crops were threshed to keep the seeds.

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00:20:08 - There were several different types of threshing machines on the farm from the one run with a team of horses to the gas powered engine.

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00:21:28 - Vegetables were stored right on the ground floor since the houses did not have furnaces. Carrots were put into sand.

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00:23:21 - Various vegetable dishes they ate. Many vegetables, as they appeared in season, were cooked with the staple potatoes and a suitable type of gravy.

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00:24:37 - Picking berries and preserving fruit. Fruit was of the wild variety such as strawberries and raspberries. Apples were sliced and dried, and later used in applesauce.

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00:25:44 - Lighting (log peeling, candles, and kerosene). One form of room lighting was using a log peel spiral attached above the stove and ended inside of the stove, which was allowed to burn upwards. Tallow was later used in candles and eventually kerosene lamps appeared.

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00:27:09 - Stoves were of the wood burning type. They were used for cooking, heating and also heating a tank of water that was attached to the back of the stove.

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00:29:23 - After he was married his home was outfitted with gas lights.

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00:30:03 - His father worked at a furniture shop for $1.25 per day for six day week.

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00:30:38 - During the summers the children would ride out into the pea field and pick peas for the Larsen canning company for $.15 a bushel.

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