Field Trip to Belknap Mill By: Rus

Hi. I am Rus. I am going to tell you about my field trip to the Belknap Mill. First we went into a room were we dressed up in the clothes we would of worn in that mill in 1918. Our job in than t Mill was to make socks for the soldiers fighting in world war 1. The problem is that they were fighting in muddy ditches and desperately needed dry socks. We first went to the machine room were the machines would sew the sock completely except for the toes. Then it would go to the loopers who would turn the sock inside out so that they could sew it. Then it went to the turner boys who would turn the socks right side out. They were paid a penny for every 36 socks they turned right side out. Then it went to the steam room were they would steam the socks to get the wrinkles out of them. Then it went to the finisher who would check the sock and pack them up. Their was also the supervisor and the machine fixer. I was the supervisor and I had to make sure that everyone was doing their job correctly. The machine fixer would fix machines. We all got to try our jobs. Then mom and I went out to Wendys and got something to eat. This was a relay fun field trip.