Survey of English Dialects recording in Kersey, Suffolk

[Side 1] Bert remembers seeing horse-drawn threshing machine, recalls threshers using 'stick-and-a-half' or 'frail' [= implement used for threshing corn by hand], tells anecdote about old farm worker frequently sabotaging threshing machine as he preferred to 'throsh' [= thresh] by hand, describes how 'dib' [= dibble, implement used to create hole for sowing seed] was used to sow corn before introduction of seed drill, describes harvesting by hand. [Side 2] Bert talks about timber shed and 'cart-lodge' [= cart-shed], recalls carting corn to barn for stacking, describes typical day mowing with scythe to make hay, discusses breeding and selling horses, talks briefly about farm wages in past.