Threshing When Dr. Rose Did It

THRESHING WHEN DR. ROSE DID IT

Dr. P. B. Rose, the chemist of S. State St., was in a reminiscent mood: "When I was young, in the fifties, I was engaged in threshing in Ohio. There were three of us with the machine. We had eight horses, but only used six, always having two fresh horses, the man we threshed for furnishing two more. We threshed by horse power. In those days the business was conducted differently than nowadays. We were the only machine in a radius of 40 miles. We would start in August and thresh right through until April. At first we would go into a neighborhood and thresh sufficient seed wheat. After this was complete we went regularly to work. This was no 10 hour a day business. We worked from daylight to dark, and then took up our machine and moved. This threshing was a sort of neighborhood affair, and all the men helped. We had chicken for dinner right along. The chickens at the farm houses would commence to cluck as soon as the machine was heard coming down the road."