We used to bind an awful lot of our grain. We needed the straw for baling, and some of it for feed. . . . My Dad had a threshing rig and we'd go around threshing for all the neighbors. We'd thresh our own first. . . . We might thresh for four weeks in the hot of the summer. . . . My dad got a combine in 1924, and most of the people were still using headers. . . . After we got the combine, we still used the binder for oats for feed. . . .

We used to have to depend on neighbors, you know. Whenever anything went wrong or you needed any help, you always depended on a neighbor. Now, everybody's got their own equipment and they're pretty independent, and they don't really care if the neighbor knows what they're doing or not.