{"id":2450,"date":"2019-02-15T22:57:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T03:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2019-02-15T22:58:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T03:58:31","slug":"john-skeochs-threshing-outfit-roverhurst-sask-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"John Skeoch’s Threshing outfit , Roverhurst, Sask, 1927"},"content":{"rendered":"
While  thrashing his wheat crop of 1927, John  Skeoch hired a photographer to capture  just how<\/p>\n
much he had  invested in his enterprise\u2026Steam Tractor,  Threshing machine,  hay wagons, hired help (and neighbours).<\/div>\n
This was  no small venture.   While the home farm was in  Fergus, Ontario, the Skeoch brothers also had  sections (640 acre sections)<\/div>\n
near Riverhurst, Saskatchewan.   John and his  wife Anne lived  in the west \u2026 built a  stone house as was the custom with Scottish<\/div>\n
farmers.  That proved to be an error as large numbers of Garter snakes also like the stone foundations.  Eventually the house had<\/div>\n
to be abandoned.  No  matter\u2026the wheat crops were terrific.  (P.S.  I like the word thrashing better than threshing\u2026as in \u201cI will give you<\/div>\n
a good thrashing\u201d\u2026That\u2019s what they  did to the wheat tassels.)<\/div>\n

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Re:Photo\u2026a little lobsided \u2026had to do this  to avoid glare.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2019<\/div>\n

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When Marjorie, Kevin, Andrew and  I visited the Keillor farm (village nearest to the Skeoch farms)… the ruins of these machine were part of  uncle John\u201ds graveyard for vintage implements.  We did not have much<\/div>\n
time to appreciate them though because  a big windstorm blew up and we had a hell of a time holding down  our tent.  My pants  disappeared  in that windstorm.   Next morning we had<\/div>\n
breakfast with Aunt Anne  and  Uncle John in the stone farm house.  Yes, the snakes were there\u2026peeping  at us  through cracks in the stone wall\u2026and  curled up in the coffee cups.  You are probably wondering<\/div>\n
about my pants.  Maybe you think I had breakfast in my underwear.  Let me leave that tough in your head.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While  thrashing his wheat crop of 1927, John  Skeoch hired a photographer to capture  just how much he had  invested in his enterprise\u2026Steam Tractor,  Threshing machine,  hay wagons, hired help (and neighbours). This was  no small venture.   While the home farm was in  Fergus, Ontario, the Skeoch brothers also had  sections (640 acre sections) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}