{"id":616,"date":"2018-02-21T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=616"},"modified":"2018-02-22T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T01:52:10","slug":"eighteen-man-threshing-crew-circa-1900-prince-edward-county-hughes-farm-answer-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"EIGHTEEN MAN THRESHING CREW CIRCA 1900, PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, HUGHES FARM (?) ANSWER QUESTIONS!"},"content":{"rendered":"

EIGHTEEN \u00a0MAN THRESHING CREW IN 1900: \u00a0ONE \u00a0MAN \u00a0TODAY<\/p>\n

LOOK CLOSELY \u00a0AT THE PICTURE \u00a0AND ANSWER THESE \u00a0QUESTIONS BELOW<\/div>\n
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PICTURE \u00a0WAS TAKEN AROUND 1900 IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY,\u00a0ONTARO, CANADA. \u00a0POSSIBLY ON THE HUGHES FARM NEAR BLOOMFIELD\u00a0<\/span>(picture was \u00a0given to Marjorie at the estate sale of Mable and Stanley \u00a0Haines, Mabel was an aunt of Marjorie (Hughes) Skeoch)<\/div>\n
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QUESTIONS:<\/div>\n
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1) Find the youngest thresher man, estimate his age.<\/div>\n
2) Find oldest, estimate age<\/div>\n
3) Find dirtiest thresher man, suggest his job<\/div>\n
4) Find \u00a0number of men with pitch forces, suggest their jobs<\/div>\n
5) Find \u00a0man with derby hat, how come the derby?<\/div>\n
6) Find how many are wearing bib overalls, why?<\/div>\n
7) Find number \u00a0of \u00a0bearded thresher men<\/div>\n
8) Find Steam tractor.<\/div>\n
9) Find horses. Guess number of teams being used (pitch fork men might help.. hint)<\/div>\n
10) Find two men with thin smiles<\/div>\n
11) Suggest why most faces are serious<\/div>\n
12) Find the strongest man<\/div>\n
13) Find the weakest man (just a guess\u2026thin \u00a0does not always mean \u00a0weak)<\/div>\n
14) \u00a0Find a possible cowboy (big hat)<\/div>\n
15) \u00a0What does the \u00a0term \u2018mostly hat\u2019 mean? (usually applied to men from the city)<\/div>\n
16) Why did I guess that picture was taken around 1900<\/div>\n
17) Who seems to be the owner of the steam \u00a0tractor?<\/div>\n
18) How many men \u00a0seem \u00a0to be farm owners?<\/div>\n
19) How many men seem to be farm workers\u2026hired men?<\/div>\n
20) Explain why 18 men were needed \u00a0to thresh in 1900 and only 1 man is needed today \u00a0in 2018<\/div>\n
21) Suggest the food menu laid our for these men after picture was taken.<\/div>\n
22) \u00a0Find the Steam \u00a0Whistle<\/div>\n
23) \u00a0Find the \u00a0man that looks \u00a0most like your father, grandfather, great grandfather \u2026yourself (male and female faces)<\/div>\n
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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2018<\/div>\n
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(Now fold up your answers and chew \u00a0the \u00a0paper. \u00a0There is no free lunch contrary to question 21)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EIGHTEEN \u00a0MAN THRESHING CREW IN 1900: \u00a0ONE \u00a0MAN \u00a0TODAY LOOK CLOSELY \u00a0AT THE PICTURE \u00a0AND ANSWER THESE \u00a0QUESTIONS BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}