. The story of agriculture in the United States. as intelHgent and progressive, a reader ofThe Rural New Yorker and The Genessee Farmer. Hehad no reaper, probably because they were too of his daughters writes as follows: My recollec-tions of my childhood home are very pleasant. Of theten brothers and sisters in the home, some of the olderones were always away, attending school or holidays and home-comings of the absent ones and ^ The home described is that of the authors grandparents. 154 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES the family gatherings were red-letter days to
. The story of agriculture in the United States. as intelHgent and progressive, a reader ofThe Rural New Yorker and The Genessee Farmer. Hehad no reaper, probably because they were too of his daughters writes as follows: My recollec-tions of my childhood home are very pleasant. Of theten brothers and sisters in the home, some of the olderones were always away, attending school or holidays and home-comings of the absent ones and ^ The home described is that of the authors grandparents. 154 AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES the family gatherings were red-letter days to us time, with its preparations and feasting;Christmas, with the hanging up of stockings and thescramble to see what Santa Claus had put into them;the Fourth of July, with its fire-crackers and the thrillsof patriotism, were great days of the year. But otherspecial occasions stand out in my memory: the last dayof school, with its public exhibition, the apple-paringbees, the sugaring-off time, threshing days, sheep shearing,. ^^ Shearing Sheep butchering, and house-cleaning were always hailed withdelight by us children as occasions of unusual stir andexcitement. Even the dipping of candles, soap making,and white-washing days brought joy to us. Then thegathering in of the winter stores, the apples into the cellarbins, spitzenburghs, greenings, seek-no-furthers, northernspies, none-such and russets; the pippins, pound sweets,and jilly flowers for earlier use; the pumpkins gatheredin piles by the barnyard fence, with the choicest ones WHEN REAPERS WERE NEW 155
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