My husband who is a 78 year old retired farmer remembers threshing very well. The farmer with the thresher machine was paid about $.05 a bushel. There was a threshing crew to cut the wheat and bring it to the machine. The threshing crew was paid $1.50 a day and the owner of the wagon and team of horses to haul the wheat up to the thresher got $1.50 a day. The dinner was either usually home grown chicken, ham, or roast, lots of potatoes, biscuits, gravy. In other words like a big thanksgiving dinner. Women took pride in putting on the best meal.