Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
16. Drummond
Oat field (am_2221)
Bernadette Godbout, daughter of Paul Godbout and Pamela Plourde is crouching behind the stooks in
the field of the neighbour Johnny Desjardins. In the back, the house and barn of Paul Godbout can be
seen. At the time, the people of Drummond farmed mixed crops and grew mostly oats, wheat, buckwheat,
hay and potatoes. In the 1930's, grain was cut and placed in stooks to dry then taken to a threshing
mill installed in a field. Before, the farmer beat with a flail the sheaves scattered on the floor
of the seed shop or the barn. Towards the middle of the 20th century, the farmers bought
combines to harvest the grain. Photo taken around 1940. Lent by the Godbout family.
