Audio Recordings

Krueger, Edgar 1985 November 18
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include lime kiln use, shingle laying, thatching, corn cutting, types grown, corn husking, corn shocking, corn stalk stacking

Hilgendorf, Otto 1985 November 21
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background, foster child, corn cutting, corn planting, grindstone use, corn knife use, corn husking, corn shocking, corn shocking stand, grain bundling, grain shocking, pig butchering, intestine cleaning, meat storage, cutting carcass, use of brain, beer making, feather stripping, Schwartz-sauer dish, grain types, grain cradle use, grain binder use, bundle tying, use of flail

Fiala, Matt and Sisel, Wilfred 1985 December 10
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background, farm purchase, flailing, reaper use, stump fencing, seed crops grown, greasing flail,, flailing process, clover crop, grain binder use, shocking grain, flax as healant, flax fiber uses, flax flailing, use of planter, use of cradle, bundling cradled grain, cradle construction, cradle sharpening, cradling schedule, grain cutting

Monfils, William and Beulah 1985 December 11
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include grain bundling, grain shocking, pig butchering, bleeding pig, blood stirring, scalding pig, scraping pig, intestine removal, liver cleaning, intestine cleaning, intestine use, blood sausage, tongue, head cheese, intestine turning, non-use of head by others, lungs, beef bladder for tobacco pouch, use of heart sack for tobacco pouch, butchering location, head removal, cleaning ears, removing brains, splitting carcass, stripping fat, rendering lard, use of stomach, background of Mrs. Fiala, smoking meat, bread baking in bakehouse, making starch from potatoes, smoking meat

Monfils, Mabel 1985 December 12
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background William and Beulah, grain cutting, use of scythe on corners of field, bundle tying, grain shocking, pig butchering, heating water, catching blood, blood sausage, scalding pig, scraping pig, use of hook, splitting carcass, cleaning intestines, use of liver, stomach, bladder, feet, and ears, cleaning head and feet, making sausage, smoking meat, making tripp

Steenberg, Agnes 1985 December 16
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background, grain cutting, grain shocking, pig butchering, scraping pig, intestine cleaning, splitting carcass, lard rendering, cleaning feet and ears, use of liver, grindstone use, use of scythe at corners of fields, tying grain bundles, making shocks, sharpening tools

Stakston, George 1985 December 17
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background, corn planting, corn cutting, corn shocking, wooden tool for shocking, corn husking, cutting grain, cradling grain, tying grain bundles, grain shocking, grain stacking

Dopson, Clifford 1985 December 17
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background, family farm, corn planting, row marking with sled, using hand planter, mother's role, planting schedule, corn cutting, no shocking with binder, corn shocking, use of buck in shocks, corn husking, wooden pin variant, bundling stalks, grain types grown, cutting grain, cradling grain, bundling grain, shocking grain, pig butchering, heating water, bleeding pig, scalding pig, scraping pig, using corn knife to scrape pig, gambrel use, tackle block use, hanging pig, cutting carcass, drying meat and storing in oats, preparing tongue, no intestine use, blood dish, use of feet, brain not used, rendering lard

Mattes, Rudolph 1985 December 19
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background, lime kiln use, liming soil, stone cutting, slacking lime, stone cutting, kiln description, tailings from kiln, origins of kiln, wood used in kiln, kiln destroyed in use, mortar from kiln, stone fencing, stone ditching, mortaring trough, sealing with mortar, used for church, shingle laying; Topics covered in interview include intestine turning, use of spoon handle, headcheese making, changing carcass, cutting for chops, use of brain and stomach, hanging sausage, storing meat in oats, rendering lard, cracklings, tongue use, grain cutting, commercial beer making from barley, old reaper not used, grain planting, grain bundling, grain shocking, flail use by grandfather, grain cradling, stump fencing, rail fencing and binder use, corn planting, cutting and shocking, husking, no sweet corn grown, use of silo

Welles, William 1986 January 3
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background, grain crops grown, timber cutting, masonry on farm, masonry not in family, maple sugaring, grain cutting, corn cutting, hay and grain cutting schedule, grain shocking, grain bundling, bundling well, unloading bundles, corn planting, pre and post binder shocking differences, group husking, pig butchering, scheduling, grindstone use, bleeding pig, barrel use, platform use, scalding temperature, gambrel insertion, hanging pig to cool, washing carcass, dressing carcass, cutting carcass, intestine cleaning, head cleaning, bladder use, use of tongue and head, liver sausage, headcheese, splitting carcass, rendering lard, mixing beef and pork

Bohn, Heman and Gertrude 1986 January 6
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background of Herman and Gertrude, corn planting, marking rows, corn cutting, corn shocking, use of buck, corn husking, grain cutting, grain bundling, grain shocking, loading bundles, pig butchering, bleeding pig, scalding pig, gambrel use, cutting carcass, removing tongue, cooling carcass, innard removal, intestine cleaning, use of wood piece, sausage making, lard rendering, use of thyme, sausage storage and hanging, smoking sausages, brain soup, bladder use, lung sausage, potato sausage, headcheese, liber sausage, knuckles use, checking intestines, stopped butchering, harvesting overripe grain, husking bees

Oestreich, Gerhard and Irene 1986 January 17
Scope and Content Note: Topics covered in interview include background of Irene and Gerhard, building construction, patching, pig butchering, heating water, slaughtering pig, scalding pig, scraping pig, innard removal, scheduling, intestine cleaning, use of wood stick, use of stomach, lard, cleaning stomach, use of lungs and bladder, help from neighbors, scheduling butchering, blood sausage, headcheese, heart use, summer sausage, garlic in sausage, differences in sausage, butchering in Watertown today, feather stripping