SEGMENT: RECOLLECTIONS, MARKETING, & FARM WORK

Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 21

SEGMENT: RECOLLECTIONS, MARKETING, & FARM WORK,

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RECOLLECTIONS
Story of grinding feed one day & finding Ed Nimmo dead with flies all over mouth. Bert Gunter said " Ed's a little under the weather." "Ed was his own worst enemy." Mentions Ed's wonderful wife. Cary Birch dying of heart-attack. Relates Ed Nimmo telling of fellow getting pinched & killed between 2 trucks working on hard road. (addenda item# 68, see Aikman 7, Clip# 780)
MARKETING
Discussion of work at grain elevator & how use of trucks has increased business. Description of loading train cars. Mentions calling commission houses for best price & selling grain by that night. Story of how Bert got enough railroad cars to ship grain. (addenda item# 68, see Aikman 7, Clip# 780)
FARM WORK
Description of raking hay with horse-pulled rake. Cautions about too big a load on wagon. (addenda item# 69, 70, see Aikman 7, Clip# 780)