Original Blog Entry: Burlap

JAP69 — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:49:40 GMT

When I got the roll of untreated burlap cloth and the untreated burlap bags for the container garden the aroma of the burlap brought back the memories of how I like the aroma of burlap. It also brought back memories of my youth on the farm of the fall harvesting season. We use to grow various grains on the farm, wheat, oats, buckwheat and maybe some rye. We use to hire a neighbor who had a combine. The combine cut the grain stalks and it went into to the combine to sort out the grain kernels which then went up to the bagging area of the combine which had two chutes for the grain to fall into burlap sacks.

I use to ride the combine maybe in my middle teens and be a bager. The grain would fall down the chute into the burlap bag and when it got full enough I would trip the chute lever to the other chute with an empty burlap bag. I would then tie off the bag with the grain in it and drop it down a side chute to the ground to be picked up. Then I would set an empty burlap bag onto the chute for the next fill up.

The aroma of the burlap and the harvesting of the grain on a bright sunny day is a memory not forgotten.

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