5/17/2009:
Home Grown: German-Russian Farm Kids Remember
"The Header Box"
Eileen M. (Burlack) Ketterling
Interviewed: Wishek, ND, 11 August 2006
Born: Burnstad, ND, 19 August 1930
We had this wheat that was my uncle's wheat, Mr. Balen's wheat and we were headering and Mother was driving the header with six horses and Brother Ben he was, I don't know what the heck Brother Ben was doing at that time. Well anyway I was driving the header box uh mother was driving the header and Marian was putting it around on the, and it was so slippery, that wheat was so slippery that she was putting it down with the fork and all of a sudden Marian was gone, she slipped off the back of the header box and it was so slippery she just slipped (sound effect) down my goodness with the pitch fork. Wow, she was lucky she didn't get hit with that pitch fork. She was pretty angry, she said "Oh my, my, my that wheat is so slippery, I slipped off."