Granary

May 4, 1931  I got lumber to build a granary.  Also paid for the tractor, altogether $198.00 for the tractor.  Abe Friesen was here for night.

Cornelius used the granary to store wheat that was harvested in summer for later sale when the price would be higher.  After some of the wheat was sold, he would store milo in it for cattle and hog feed.  It had three bins where grain was stored.  There was a window in each bin through which the grain was shoveled to or from the pickup.  The Siemens only bought a gasoline-power augur in the 1940s.

Apparently, he also paid for a tractor that he had bought earlier. 

Abe Friesen was Anna R. Friesen’s (Jake’s Anna) older brother.  He had left his home in Mexico because he did not get along with his step-mother and come back to Meade.  He was wife Margaret’s nephew and a good friend of the four older siblings, so he would come sometimes to spend the night.