Emma to Joe, 16 September 1918
Maple Lane Farm Hampton R.R. 1 16th Sept 1918 My Dear Son, Beulah wrote some to you yesterday and Ted undertook to also but I guess I had better say a few words to make sure the others get their share posted. Well, since I wrote the whole question has been threshing. Three or four steam (tractor) threshers travel the neighborhood - everybody belongs in a certain ring of men who have exchanged with each other since time was - and it took some figuring to determine where Papa had best join in. Finally three threshers converged at our corner so that Armours, Pascoes and ourselves were threshing at the same time - which kind o' balled things up. However we got through at last. Had a rainy day so they were here for two dinners, four lunches (14 hands or rather mouths counting Ted) and two breakfasts for two extra men ("Bert" Northcote & his helper -'twas his mill we had.) One thing I fed 'em was baked beans from our own beans - which are most all r...