Sweet Sorghum Stalks

Filling Cans with Syrup

Sorghum Mill
By H. V. Noble (circa 1973)

My earliest recollection of it was when I must have been around 2 years old (1909). It was made mainly by “Pickett’s,” about ¼ mile west of Bakers Corner (Indiana) store.

Pickett (Old John, that is – about the same age as my grandpa) was a general repair shop. He had a big forge, some saws some drill presses and I guess a wood and perhaps a metal lathe, too. I don’t recall that he did horseshoeing, but he did do repair work on tools. With his forge, he could make any kind and shape of metal replacement part. He could also repair them – by splicing, fagot welding, etc, etc. I don’t know how or why he got in the sorghum business. Maybe it was a cash business that brought in quite a bit of ready cash in the fall. The market was fairly stable in as far as price was concerned.

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