In 1925, we bought our first truck, a Chevrolet 1 ton, complete with box and a wood cab, for $840.00. With it we could haul 65 bushels of grain, compared to 55 to 60 hauled by wagon and two horses.  If a triple box was used we could haul between 75 to 80 bu., and pulled it by four horses.  It took approximately 12 hours for a round trip to Burlington.  We harvested our wheat with a header pulled or rather pushed by six horses.  The header would elevate the cut wheat straw into a header box 8'x 16'mounted on a wagon and pulled by two horses.  After the header was full, it was unloaded by hand and the wheat stacked into stacks.  About a month or two later, a threshing machine would come into the vicinity which was powered by a steam engine.  It took about 12 men to make up a threshing crew.  The crew consisted of one separator man, one engineer, one waterman, from four to six pitches, (who put the straw in the machine), two grain haulers, and two cooks to feed the crew.  Harvesting corn was done by hand.  It was husked and thrown or tossed into a wagon pulled by two horses.  It was then hauled to cribs and unloaded or piled in long piles.  One man could pick approximately 50 to 60 bu. of corn per day if he worked from ten to twelve hours.  Then later, the corn was shelled with a corn shelter.  In 1923, we received over 20 inches of rainfall and therefore, had 150 acres of corn that year and the average yield was 35 bushels per acre.  John, Emil, and I bought a used corn shelter from Granville Hutton.  We reconditioned it and did custom shelling for three years.  We charged two cents for husked corn and five cents for snapped corn per bushel.  The cobs were used for fuel along with cow chips and coal.  The later we could buy for $8.00 to $10.00 per ton.  In about 1940, dad and mother, Emil and we ourselves, each bought our first propane gas ranges, which made. cooking and baking much easier.