The memory of the era
years ago as being austere working and honest, looking tanned and hands hardened by hard work. Imagine too, their original buildings, rough, low, and appropriate storage livestock, hay, and grain harvested. Grain surely reached the bread basket after arduous work: mowing with a sickle in one hand and the mud in the other, from dawn to dusk, enduring the rigors of summer with no more means that an old straw hat, perhaps, some patched corduroy pants and a hard clogs.
Within the agricultural and livestock work in those days, there is a special mention those suffered tough-looking women and huge heart, who, after returning from the harvest or other agricultural work, even had the strength to care for their children and make the many chores. Women on many houses had more than six children and did not miss not a day of harvest and threshing.
One of the agricultural work that had a special charm and the whole family involved in it, was the threshing of grain. The agricultural implement of choice for performing the task of threshing, was the trail, a very important tool in an era in which there was no machinery to separate the wheat from the chaff, and where human and animal went together. The trail itself was a wooden rectangular shape, curved at the front, in the bottom, had several jagged mountain ranges and plenty of sharp flint stones.
The harvest once collected, stretched on the floor was a circle and proceeded to thrash the pile with the trail. The sledge was pulled by two mules or oxen that were fitted with the harness and collars, to secure. The thresher, which settled into the top of the trail, and was responsible for driving the yoke of oxen, and male or fuel over the animals when circumstances required it. Moving in circles, flakes, or blades of the thresher, placed in the back, cut the straw and the ear splitting the seed without damage. When the pile was suitably trite they proceeded to pick it up. To do this they used the yoked oxen and a drag guided by someone whose mission was to ensure that the pile piled stay as possible.
With the advent of consolidation and the formation of agricultural cooperatives in the mid-60's, these daily chores of life of a farmer, were disappearing. All this is only the memory, and some agricultural equipment kept in houses and museums as silent witnesses of a past not so lejano.Como in almost every village is the memory of the era, here in Sanlucar with
era name Mount one of many who had at that time.
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