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Ida Chamness writings on travel and religion, 1927-1938
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6 cooking and baking. So you see in the fall of the year after the potatoes are dug and got in; and the grain threshed by flail beating the grain out in the, barn, building: then ground into meal; which each farmer does on his own farm by water power and stone grinder. They boil the potatoes, put them through a mill turned by hand; about two bushels at a time; which a woman is supposed to get all done in one day: get up at four o'clock
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6 cooking and baking. So you see in the fall of the year after the potatoes are dug and got in; and the grain threshed by flail beating the grain out in the, barn, building: then ground into meal; which each farmer does on his own farm by water power and stone grinder. They boil the potatoes, put them through a mill turned by hand; about two bushels at a time; which a woman is supposed to get all done in one day: get up at four o'clock
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