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Collection: 00205 - Mildred K. Jahde Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00001
Title: Gilbert Jordet wheat farm, Finley (N.D.)
Date: 1912
Creator: Keeling, Mae Emma
Inscription/Marks: [front of card] Col. 000205-00001. On a large wheat farm operated by Gilbert Jordet, Finley, No. Dak. Mildred E. Jahde, June 1963. [Mildred K. Jahde typewritten letter regarding 00205-00001] Finley, No. Dak. 1912. A true year. Next to our field a big outfit used to farm and harvest great fields. To hire and fire 20 men in a day was nothing. He hired anything who could say he had driven a horse. Two thirds of them had not. Sometimes the place of work was many miles from the cook car and sleeping quarters. It was the days when I.W.W.s roamed the country looking for jobs not work. Few of them intended to work. Some times some farm boys from Kansas or Nebraska would drift in but the majority were bums from away back. On this night the boss arrived from town with several prospective employees and showed them the bunck [sic] house which was filthy and told them to wash up and come in to the cook car for supper before they rolled in for the night, which they did. About 4 A.M. the next morning the boss began to roll them out to feed the horses and harness up before they ate breakfast. With 20 or 30 teams there was always things to be mended and repairs to order, horses that were sore or sick or mistreated and new ones brought in to take their places. So it was dark when this new employee was being rolled out to start the day. He stretched and yawned. There were no lights, the stars were shining. Not knowing what was expected of him he made his way to the cook car. The cook served him his breakfast and as he finished off, he wiped his chin of the coffee which was dribbling down his chin, "Now this is the kind of a place to work," says he, "Two suppers in one night and Hurray for bed again." And he must have gone back to bed again as he was in the next load back to town. If they missed the ride they had to hitch hike back. When this outfit got rolling around a field, there would be twenty binders each cutting a swath of 10 or twelve feet. With 4 horses on a machine. There were enough shockers to keep up and as the last machine left the field the last bundle was picked off the carrier. The owner's name was Gilbert Jordet. When I went to college his daughters were very well educated. One of them was my teacher.
Summary: Five four horse teams pulling mowers and binders harvesting wheat on the Gilbert Jordet farm. On a large wheat farm operated by Gilbert Jordet, Finley (N.D.)
Red ID: PH_I_149015 Image ID: 98913 Image Notes: 00205-00001

Collection: 00205 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Mildred K. Jahde Photograph Collection
Date: 1880-1950

Summary: Images taken by the mother of Mildred Jahde in Mountrail County N.D., including postcards, coal mines, and a rodeo at Elbowoods ca. 1905-1910.

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