Full audio file. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 1 - Introduction. [never recorded] Tape 1, Side 1, Part 2 - Mr. & Mrs. Wery married in 1935 and then left the farm until 6 years ago (1970). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 3 - Mrs. Wery was born and raised at this farm. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 4 - The shed and outdoor oven south of the house are torn down now. Grandmother used to bake in the oven. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 5 - Used outdoor oven until they got a kitchen stove. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 6 - They had battery-run electricity on the farm. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 7 - Mrs. Wery's father's name is Michael Tureur. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 8 - The present house is log with brick veneer, and was built by a Parins family. The bricks were put on in 1917. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 9 - Summer kitchens were used in order to keep the main house cool. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 10 - As a child (11-12 yrs) Mrs. Wery made meals and drove horses at harvest time. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 11 - They got tractors about 1934 (Mrs. Wery is 59 no and was born in 1917). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 12 - The pigpen is now across the road but the road (path) used to be on the other side of this building. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 13 - The pigs were always separated from the other animals until they gave birth. The pigpen was built by Parins. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 14 - Parins built: thresh floor, cow barn, granary, Tureurs built: chicken coop, summer kitchen. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 15 - Mr. Tureur raised chickens and sold eggs and chicks in the spring. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 16 - They sold the eggs in Fontaine's store on Co. N for 10 to 15 cents a doz. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 17 - They took 30 doz. cases to Fontaine's at one time and exchanged it for flour. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 18 - They took grain to the mill in Luxemburg to make their own flour in winter. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 19 - They used the barter system at Fontaine's; traded eggs for flour, yard goods, etc. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 20 - Fontaine's has been closed for 5 years now (sinec 1971). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 21 - They used to have a brooder inside the northeast corner of the house. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 22 - Garage, wood shed, summer kitchen, and machine shed were built by Mr. Tureur. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 23 - The thresh floor has an old and new section. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 24 - There is a straw stack south of the thresh floor. The straw was blown and stored there. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 25 - Someone usually came around with a machine for threshing. They raised grains such as oats, wheat, and barley. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 26 - Discussion of which crops were grown on which acres. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 27 - Constructing trailer houses for the daughter's and son's family is common in the area. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 28 - The garden used to be between the barn and the house with a path leading to the barn along the north side of it. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 29 - 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. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 30 - They planted potatoes, beets, carrots, pumpkin, sweet corn, cabbage, etc. in the garden. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 31 - They had no herb garden, but planted dill in the large garden for cucumbers. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 32 - They planted cow beets on wet land beside the pigpen. They were dug in the fall and stored in the basement. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 33 - There was a post and barbed wire fence around the garden, and also around the cow yard next to the barn. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 34 - Some fruit trees were to the north of the garden. (plum & cherry) They were canned or made into sauce. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 35 - There used to be a smokehouse on the property. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 36 - The family fished a lot. They would put the fish in a salt brine overnight and smoke them the next day. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 37 - Three families lived together on this farm (the Tureurs, her uncle Jean's family, and her grandma and grandpa). Tape 1, Side 1, Part 38 - They fished for herring in the winter. Usually caught 300-400 fish. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 39 - There was an ice shed to the north of the garage, they packed chunks of ice, cut from the Bay, in sawdust during the summer time. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 40 - Most other farms in the area did not have ice sheds. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 41 - The basement floor is still earthen. Tape 1, Side 1, Part 42 - They washed the sawdust off the ice at the well before bringing it in the house. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 1 - Description of the location of the shed and the outdoor oven. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 2 - The big boiler pot was stored in this shed. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 3 - Pigs were butchered in the shed. The boiler pot was used in butchering. Short description of butchering a pig. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 4 - Salted and canned the pork from the butchered pigs. Tape 1, Side 2 , Part 5 - They never butchered cows themselves. Took a cow to the butcher shop once a year. Tape 1, Side 2, Part 6 - Kermiss is coming soon. The first Kermiss is at Lincoln.
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