| Show FIRST PLACE ANECDOTE PLANTING WHEAT PIONEER STYLE Glenn Thomas 2850 Monroe Blvd Ogden Utah 84403 In coming order to winter have my the mother old flour bin requested filled plant for field the of wheat at age twelve following the death of my father in 1926 at Wales had assisted the year before Flacing the lines around my neck with the team hooked to the hand plow pointed it into the hard dry soil Huge clods were turned over whilewas thrown about desperately struggling five days with an of ax Sacks to plowing and of was then the wheat the were measured filled plow harrowing leveling bottom of the field carefully keep with placed in position breaking planting at After the hard could the top clods begin middle and Placingmarker at each position off eight short wvheat buckled and steps with bucket leather strap around my neck Now standing at the four step position at the top of the field carefully sighted point at the middle and again at the bottom and began taking careful steps in straight line With ecach step reached into the bucket tookhandful of grain and allowed it to sift through my fingers withsweeping motion of the arm making sure the grain was being evenly spread refilling the bucket at the middle and again at the bottom of the field and repeating this rhythm until the field was planted harroved into the ground and furrows Water turns were met taithfully The made wheat for was irrigating rich reward came at harvest time with an excellent crop of wheat Some was taken to the mill and made into flour Thankfully the old bin was filled for another year |
