Middledom

Memoirs

Hendrik de Jong (1896 – 1982)

From Milk Yoke to Dog Cart

After haying came the grain harvest. Then I had to tie sheaves and later I had to lift them. Then came the potato lifting and the beet. But before the potatoes were removed from the ground, the barley was threshed. That was done with the horses. The sheaves were then spread out on the threshing floor and the horses had to walk over them.

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