April Fools Postcards

|Published on April 1, 1999

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This 1929 card shows what must surely be the world's largest cream separator, displayed at the National Dairy Exposition in St. Louis. "It's 14 feet high, and a real one," the writer notes.

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No antlers; no red nose, but it's a Reindeer (2 hp, vertical tank-cooled), by Root and Vandervoort

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Early-day genetic engineering? "Good Corn makes Good Hogs," reads the inscription on this 1910 card, printed in Toronto.

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