Farmer Boy

What was father doing when Almanzo found him in the toolshed?
1. collecting supplies to take to the field
2. fixing his plow
3. preparing feed for the animals
4. mending a flail
True or False:
Almanzo told his father that he should hire a machine to do the threshing, but his father refused to do so.
1. false
2. true
Why does Father not like the machine threshing?
1. it costs too much money
2. the men who bring the machine are not trustworthy
3. they work too slowly
4. they wastes too much
True or False:
Father says, "All it saves is time, son. And what good is time, with nothing to do?"
1. true
2. false
Fill in the Blank:
Father and Almanzo spread the wheat on the floor, then they hit the wheat with the _____. This caused the grail to separate from the husks.
1. hoes
2. flails
3. whips
4. rakes
Fill in the Blank:
When they finished hitting the wheat on the floor, they used _____ to pick up and sift the straw to throw it aside.
1. flails
2. hoes
3. rakes
4. pitchforks
Fill in the Blank:
When the grain was thick on the floor, _____ scraped it to the side with a wooden scraper.
1. Lazy John
2. Father
3. Almanzo
4. Mother
What did Father and Almanzo do with the grain after they separated all of it from the hay?
1. shoveled it into the wagon
2. shoveled it into the fanning-mill
3. fed it to the cattle
4. hauled it off to town
What did Father and Almanzo put into the fanning-mill next?
1. potatoes
2. apples
3. walnuts
4. beechnuts
What did the fanning mill do to the nuts?
1. broke open the shells
2. crushed them into tiny pieces
3. mixed them with water
4. separated them from the leaves
Father and Almanzo had a lot of other things to thresh. Which was NOT something that they would thresh during the long winter storms?
1. beans
2. Canada peas
3. oats
4. corn
True or False:
Almanzo was very proud that he was big enough to help take care of the farm work now.
1. true
2. false