‘LET’S TALK STEAM’

By L. C. Uazilly
Published on May 1, 1964
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T. H. Krueger
This shows my Advance-Rumely, 24 x 38, all steel Ideal Thresher with my son, Earl, at the stacker swing gear. The thresher was new in 1926 and I am the second owner of it. The machine is in good condition. Courtesy of T. H. Krueger, 1615 San Francisco

Box 167, Starks, Louisiana

The steam traction engine had a comparative short span of life
on American farms in view of the great amount of work that it did
so well. Not more than about fifteen years marks its heyday and
period of greatest use. But even in that short period the impact of
its mighty tread as we turn back a page in the great book of years

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