[ Harry ]TRADITIONAL FARMING TECHNIQUES

Duration / 00:05:52. Speakers Pierce, Harry (b.1896, male, retired farmer)Recording date / 1966. Recording locations / Kingham, Oxfordshire: OS Grid Reference (425500, 223500).

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Uh, Uh

Corn stacker,

Haystack.

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fill

the middle

UP

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againMIDDLE

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MIDDLEright up

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And you started to,

[ Put the thatch on ]

[ That was by using wheat straw ]

[ Which you put, in a big heap ]

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[ Where you took them up the ladder ]

a t t h e b o t t o m ]

[ And you started

OF THE EVE

And Worked up!To the top of the roof

- K e e p i t d o w n

USINGS t r i n g s

A n d S p r a y s t o

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or

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you went

And round, and round again

- That way

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[ As we say ]

When round

the outside

first

- Filling the Middle up

Till you got the middle full

A n d t h e n g r a d u a l l y k e p t

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[ but uh ]

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