Bedroom for male offspring of the family. Boys may give up temporarily to sleep in dogtrot when overnight guests are present. Boys must help with the farm, livestock, repair of equipment, build fires in fireplaces in winter and in kitchen stoves throughout the year. They would hunt and kill game, bring it home and prepare it for cooking. Fishing was recreation, as well as a chore, as the fish must also be prepared for cooking. Fishing might involve several types: a floating jug or pole, trout lines in the river, a wire trap in a stream, a screen in the creek for red-horse suckers, and gigging for bass, bream, or catfish, or a cane pole while sitting on the river bank or in a small boat.

Boys had to gather wood and build fires for the washpot, “pump up” wash water and be available to use the “battlin’ stick” on their dirty clothes. They often must help milk the cows (or goats) and “slop the hogs,” scrub the chairs with lye soap and sand, help with the pea and bean shelling, corn shucking, and with the hog killing in winter. They might even have to help sweep yards, a year round chore which must be done in a pattern dictated by the lady of the house.