Letters: Harvest time in Kansas

By Virgil H. Smith

|Published on August 22, 2011

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1933: Virgil Smith (shown at top) and company on a threshing machine during harvest time in Kansas.

Image courtesy Virgil H. Smith

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1963: A combine at work during harvest time in Kansas.

Image courtesy Virgil H. Smith

Three decades of progress

These photos show harvest time in Kansas, on a farm 8 or 10 miles east and north of Douglass. I have seen threshing machines to combines. The photo at top was taken in about 1933. I am shown at the top of the photo; everyone else in the photo is deceased. The photo at bottom shows changes in harvest equipment; it was taken about 30 years later.

Virgil H. Smith, Silverdale, Wash.

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