We went to the Adirondack Museum. We learned facts about logging and farming.

We learned that you have to be aware of being crushed by falling trees in the woods, or falling in the river and getting crushed by logs. We know river driving is done in spring and in daylight. They use peaveys and pike poles for river driving and for skid ways they use cant hooks.

With farming we learned that it takes five hours to churn butter. Farmers trade butter, blankets, jackets from the sheep, skins and lots of other things to get other stuff. The Adirondacks is a bad place to have a farm because there was to many trees, rocks, bad soil and the summers were to short. When you farm you have a team of oxen and they have to be the same size to plow fields.

We learned lots of facts at the museum. I hope we will go again, because we had fun!

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