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8/31/2010 3:10:41 PM
When it comes to antique farm tools it's not surprising that many remain stubbornly unidentifiable. Do you know what any of these 24 mystery tools were used for?
7/20/2010 2:51:37 PM
Many breeds of livestock, including many British native breeds, that have survived for hundreds of years are in serious danger of becoming endangered or extinct.
7/20/2010 2:38:36 PM
The diary of Mary Dodge Woodward shows the life of a woman on a bonanza farm in the Dakota territory.
7/20/2010 2:33:29 PM
Seasonal help flooded bonanza farms of the Red River Valley, in Minnesota and North Dakota, during harvest.
7/20/2010 2:16:44 PM
California’s Imperial Valley is home to the Holtville Carrot Festival, which celebrates the area’s farm traditions.
6/22/2010 12:15:54 PM
Nothing says summer like goat heads, grass burrs and patching bicycle inner tubes.
6/21/2010 4:37:34 PM
Recalling the days of cultivating corn, while avoiding creeping jenny, one row at a time using a 1-row cultivator.
6/21/2010 11:20:58 AM
A pioneer woman’s diary from the 1880s describes conditions at a bonanza farm, an early “factory farm,” along the Northern Pacific Railroad.
6/18/2010 2:43:15 PM
The Red River Valley, located between North Dakota and Minnesota, was home to some of the earliest bonanza farms in the 1870s.
6/1/2010 3:01:42 PM
By the time the all-new Model A came out in 1928, more than 15 million Model T Fords had been sold, and the ubiquitous “Tin Lizzies” were everywhere. Tin Lizzie was only one of the many nicknames given to the car. Others were Flivver, Bouncing Betty, Leaping Lena, the Spirit of St. Vitus and the Mechanical Cockroach.
In addition to the nicknames, there were probably more jokes about the little Ford than there are about Pat and Mike. Most of the jokes kidded about the car’s diminutive size.
5/26/2010 2:44:23 PM
"I was 12 years old when my dad, Anton Blaha, put this cedar corner post in the pasture. I took a spike (then referred to as a 1D common nail) and punched my name into the bucket in 1935. ..."
5/21/2010 11:16:34 AM
A chance finding of a grain probe brings back memories of shelling corn.
5/21/2010 10:15:56 AM
Since the 1880s, the Yaegers have been farming with steam in Montana.
5/14/2010 8:54:55 AM
Whenever we old timers begin to long for “the good old days,” we should hark back to some of the home remedies with which we were tortured, as kids, by our well-meaning parents, notably chest cold and cough home remedies.
4/26/2010 10:48:41 AM
The advent of the modern cream separator allowed many farms access to new revenue.
4/26/2010 10:12:40 AM
Delbert Trew recalls the days when stovepipe was custom-made at hardware stores.
4/26/2010 9:32:45 AM
Dry stone walls survive as the oldest relic of Britain’s farming heritage.
4/22/2010 11:42:16 AM
Sam Moore recalls manning a civilian volunteer observation post firsthand during World War II.
4/8/2010 3:00:29 PM
"... The family farm I was raised on had an old iron pile with an old tractor, a Model T Ford truck, a 1909 seven-passenger Page touring car, old plows and cultivators, and other miscellaneous scrap iron. That old iron was sold (and some was donated) and melted down for the war effort."
4/8/2010 10:00:42 AM
Ryan Collins' essay "The Mechanics of Life."
3/30/2010 9:20:05 AM
An astute observer could learn much by studying a family’s clothesline.
3/1/2010 11:59:22 AM
Nephew’s relentless search for his uncle’s 1944 Farmall Model H tractor pays off.
3/1/2010 11:35:38 AM
Dale Geise recalls the days when his family baled hay – and the inherent danger.
2/22/2010 10:01:36 AM
"I’m 81 and was a town kid, but during World War II we all had to help out on the farms. ..."
2/17/2010 11:50:09 AM
Long ago, I saw an old rust-covered tractor for sale beside the road and immediately stopped.
Upon closer scrutiny, the derelict turned out to be a 1939 John Deere Model B, serial number 79014, equipped with steel rear wheels and rubber-tired fronts that still held a little air. It was love at first sight, at least on my part, and I called the number listed on the sign.
The owner and I quickly agreed on a price (actually, he quoted a price and I agreed), and I was the proud owner of the forlorn little B. All I now had to do was get a non-running tractor with steel lug wheels onto my trailer for the ride home.
2/16/2010 12:20:29 PM
McCormick Harvester Co. salesman Daniel B. Klopfenstein’s letters home paint picture of international agriculture in the early 1900s.
2/10/2010 9:40:13 AM
When it comes time to procure a gift for me, the last place my husband heads is the mall. He would, as he readily admits, “rather take a beating.” Instead, he does what any clear thinking man would do when shopping for his wife: He trolls the swap meets at tractor shows.
2/3/2010 2:06:53 PM
At the turn of the century, the pace of life was much slower. Land mass transportation was by railroad trains, inter-urbans, stagecoach and such. There were no automobiles or buses.
Local transportation was limited to walking, horse or horse-and-buggy or bicycle. The bicycle was the most economical and efficient means of individual local transport.
1/25/2010 8:59:52 AM
January was always my favorite time on the farm.
During the 1940s and 1950s, almost every farm in our small rural community was a family farm. Let us describe that farm as a rather small holding, from 40 to 150 acres or so. Each farm had its inhabitants: first the human family, then a few cows (either a small beef or dairy herd), a few sows, some sheep and, of course, chickens.
Each month all year long was a working month – except January.
1/19/2010 10:14:41 AM
Salesman’s letters home paint picture of international agriculture in the early 1900s.
1/11/2010 4:50:17 PM
When I was a kid, folks often used the expression “once in a blue moon” or “never in a blue moon” to describe something that occurred very rarely, or that might never happen at all. I didn’t know what the term referred to since I’d never actually seen a blue moon; every moon looked yellow or white or maybe gray to me.
1/8/2010 4:39:54 PM
Funny how things change.
An article in the February 2010 issue of Farm Collector takes a look at pure-breed livestock signs from the 1950s and ’60s. The first thing you notice as you look at the signs is that cattle in that era had an entirely different profile than do cattle today. Legs, apparently, were considered optional equipment in the old days.
12/16/2009 2:32:28 PM
A couple of years ago, in the pages of Farm Collector, Delbert Trew recalled his and his bride’s Texas shivaree. The way he described it, the event was brutal and sadistic and certainly not much fun for the young newlyweds. We had ’em in western Pennsylvania too, but I think they were (in most cases) a little more fun.
11/30/2009 9:57:32 AM
Need in-depth information on belt repair? Check out two takes on lacing belts from Farm Collector columnists James Boblenz and Sam Moore.
10/28/2009 11:07:29 AM
The 150-year-old hill farm Gelli Newydd boasts a working overshot waterwheel.
10/27/2009 9:15:14 AM
"I spent many hours plowing in the spring on Saturdays and days off from school. The TE-20 would go fast enough with two bottoms to bend a plow point should you hit a stump. My dad slowed me down after about three trips to town to get a plow point straightened at the blacksmith shop."
10/26/2009 4:37:09 PM
My dad had an insurance policy in the 1940s when we went out custom cutting grain for our neighbors: a rope!
10/20/2009 1:23:03 PM
Excerpts from the newspaper the Rural New-Yorker in the 1800s: an unlikely story of a cow and a snake, living frugally, and remedies for fits.
10/15/2009 4:10:36 PM
Transporting the John Deere Dain tractor into the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum.
10/15/2009 3:38:39 PM
Presidential museum exhibit shows rural roots influenced Lincoln's character and political agenda.
9/22/2009 4:34:31 PM
As you read this, kids across the country are settling back into familiar classroom routines.
Familiar to them, that is: not so familiar to those of us years separated from lessons in readin’, ’ritin’ and ’rithmatic – and totally alien to those who lived in the era when what we think of as old iron was new.
9/10/2009 11:50:34 AM
John Parlett first started his extensive collection of farm-related items more than 40 years ago and has given it increased attention during the past decade.
8/26/2009 10:56:08 AM
The National Poultry Museum celebrates the farm-raised poultry tradition.
8/26/2009 10:46:32 AM
Loyl Stromberg: The man behind the poultry.
8/26/2009 9:51:28 AM
Comparing the early poultry industry to today.
8/17/2009 4:32:26 PM
In the September 2009 issue of Farm Collector we visit a different past — that of the weekly newspaper of 90 or 100 years ago. Don’t get nervous: We’re still talking cast iron machinery, line shafts and stationary steam engines. Like equipment on the farm, machinery in the print shop was big, heavy, cantankerous, noisy, dangerous and dirty. It was also elegantly designed, brilliantly conceived and often stupendously dependable.
8/6/2009 9:55:33 AM
The original poems that were basis for Christian Williams' 12-song folk album Songs of the Iron Men.
8/4/2009 2:17:47 PM
Life on the land, farm shows, lessons from the past and more
7/28/2009 5:06:11 PM
This photo was taken in September 1922. It shows brothers John and Carl Surine with their International threshing rig.
7/27/2009 2:48:04 PM
When Sam Moore was a kid on the farm during the 1940s, his family grew corn, oats, wheat and hay.
7/7/2009 12:25:02 PM
Laying new linoleum signaled a higher standard of living.
7/7/2009 12:15:35 PM
A defining moment in the history of American postcards has to be the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
7/2/2009 9:19:29 AM
Looking for a little something to perk up your road trips this summer? Find a museum. The big ones will do nicely, but if you really want to stumble on a funky little collection that captures the pulse of one tiny dot on the map, think small.
6/30/2009 4:02:19 PM
Threshing in Manitoba in the 1930s and ’40s.
6/22/2009 1:41:33 PM
During the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era, entertainment was almost non-existent.
6/18/2009 4:26:21 PM
True enough, thrift can be carried ridiculously far, but rooted as it is in a time when each man made his own way without benefit of government handouts, it speaks to admirable traits such as resourcefulness, discipline and creativity.
6/17/2009 1:33:19 PM
Excerpts from mid to late 19th century newspapers.
6/17/2009 9:26:04 AM
The farmer who broke a 150-foot length of 3/4- or 1-inch diameter rope while hoisting hay into his haymow could hardly afford to buy a new rope. Instead, he had to splice the rope. For him, that might not have been hard to do. But today, try to find someone who can splice a rope. That is another rope trick that has not been passed down through the generations.
6/16/2009 11:47:56 AM
“I have just read the April 2009 issue of Farm Collector. Three stories brought back memories. ...”
6/16/2009 11:06:39 AM
Circa-1920s photo shows an old mower, a homemade Model T truck, a Model A and a Canary grass header.
6/16/2009 10:30:15 AM
“The picture of a Model A Ford homemade tractor takes me back to World War II days. ...”
6/16/2009 10:06:38 AM
Grain surplus of the 1930s and ’40s prompted "government granaries" across the county.
6/16/2009 9:41:00 AM
Increasing desire for the large and modern threatens traditional Welsh agricultural buildings.
5/20/2009 3:56:23 PM
Unique region demanded innovative thinking.
4/29/2009 10:31:55 AM
In my opinion, we lived in the best of times — times that may have been simpler but certainly not easier.
4/28/2009 4:47:55 PM
Electric cars were quite popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially among ladies, who were then thought to be too delicate to crank an internal combustion engine.
4/28/2009 3:43:10 PM
Twelve steam farming poems become an album of American folk music.
4/27/2009 2:45:47 PM
In one of your summer issues, you had an article about a collection of items used when corn was shucked by hand. It reminded me that when I was 18 ... .
3/30/2009 11:42:06 AM
Frozen in time: I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
3/30/2009 9:13:15 AM
Try these recipes with your hand-crank ice cream freezer.
3/24/2009 5:18:19 PM
Daylight saving time hits us every year — and this is the third year where we'll spend more time "saving" than in standard time.
3/24/2009 9:38:55 AM
Farmers of old traveled great distances — and that's just in the furrow.
2/23/2009 9:54:55 AM
A farm boy's start on the threshing ring.
1/29/2009 3:58:23 PM
Canadian collector discusses a life with steam and his personal Case collection.
1/29/2009 2:53:27 PM
The Hoffman family in Ebenezer, Saskatchewan, Canada keeps steam tradition alive with their 1917 17 HP George White.
1/29/2009 11:14:56 AM
“The river was a scene of remarkable animation.”
1/29/2009 10:22:42 AM
Memories of picking corn by hand in Iowa.
1/29/2009 9:39:59 AM
After spotting a disheveled granary, Jim Lacey acquired and restored it.
1/27/2009 3:44:37 PM
The old-time farm family found many uses for buckets.
1/27/2009 9:45:59 AM
Lino Giovacchini turns old iron into wood. A magician? He might as well be.
1/26/2009 4:51:33 PM
In 1944, Dale Geise could on rare occasions get a job on another farm.
1/21/2009 3:28:11 PM
Time to get my hands dirty with a 1921 1-1/2 HP IHC M.
1/21/2009 3:26:42 PM
Variations of this weather lore abound, involving both shepherds and sailors, and even appear in the Bible and Shakespeare.
1/21/2009 3:25:23 PM
A forgotten rope trick from old days on the farm.
1/21/2009 3:22:25 PM
If you find yourself in need of a little diversion from the news of the day, why not let Farm Collector help you travel back to a simpler time?
12/1/2008 4:55:21 PM
Depression-era hardships stripped luxuries out of the budget.
10/9/2008 2:05:23 PM
Two photographs, courtesy Steve Davis, documenting the aftermath of the steam engine accident between Thomas Chorley's Geiser Peerless traction engine and the electic trolley on the Syracuse & Auburn line in New York on the morning of Aug. 11, 1916.
10/9/2008 10:59:31 AM
Needles in the Forest: Searching for Clues to English Engines in the Woods of California
10/9/2008 10:39:19 AM
Custom Threshing Circles Swept America’s Fields at the Dawn of the 20th Century
10/9/2008 10:02:41 AM
I remember being about 4 or 5 years old, and knowing just that Dad ran an “engine” with yellow flywheels and a diamond-shaped smokestack. Now, being a bit older, I know all the details I couldn't be bothered with before.
9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Here's a recipe from Jill Cross, wife of author Scott Cross whose "Raising Cane" appeared in the September 2008 issue of Farm Collector.
9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Cub Cadet collectors try their hand at making sorghum, start to finish
8/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Hobby got you on the hot seat again? Tractor restorer extraordinaire Roger Welsch offers ironclad defense
8/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
This recipe may give your cardiologist fits, but it's down-home cooking at its finest. And what better way to showcase a uniquely American crop?
5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
When Daryl Dempsey decided to build a corn crib, he figured what was good enough for his grandfather was good enough for him. Using a textbook from his grandfather’s college days, he took a 1915 plan and put it to work in a new century.
3/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Fifth generation family sawmill still going strong.
12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Ohio oil boom of 1885-95 comes to life in display
12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Just in time for gift giving, new releases celebrate vast range of arm collectibles
11/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Vintage farm relics finds new life as sculpture
10/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Down on the farm, one function always drew a crowd. Whether you spelled it shivaree (like we do down in Texas) or charivari (like the dictionary does), a local, recently wedded couple was in for a rough night. This old-time rural custom had been carried on in our area for years.
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