This clipping has pondered me a long time. It was taken from a
St. Paul Sunday Pioneer Press dated November 26,1950. This with
other pictures, of an outstanding young Florida Farmer by the name
of Forrest Davis; no further address given. He is pictured on left
pitching peanuts into a thresher. It is my hopes it could be used
in ‘The Album’ in effort to bring out some further
‘Hobby Magazines,’ I have seen nothing about threshing
peanuts, and very little if any, on rice threshing in the south.
Maybe some reader can come up with some interesting information on
threshing these crops.
I have a span of Oxen which is a two ox hitch and a most unusual
four wheel logging wagon with a wooden axle to fit a solid wooden
wheel with a 6? inch hole and no spokes. The reach and the pole of
this wagon are separate branches from a tree. This wagon may be
used for various occassions – weddings, hay rides, parades, fairs,
thresherees and plowing. These are the most baeutiful Brown Swiss
oxen averaging more than a ton each. I also have two more oxen to
make a four ox hitch. These oxen have been parade entry winners for
the past four years. Any organization wishing for me to come – may
write me at this address. A price list will be sent upon
request.
I had a wonderful vacation trip this past summer to Ogden, Utah,
and I went up to Mendon, Utah, and saw a fine scale model Case
traction engine, a drag stacker type thresher and steam calliope
all built by the late Mr. K. M. Woods. I was told he gave all of
his collections of big engines and threshers to the Museum at the
University of Utah at Logan.
On my way home I spent one day at the Antique Engine and
Threshers Show at Bird City, Kansas, and above are some pictures
that I took there. At left: A Case engine pulling thresher. In top
center is a one-half scale model Russell. The boiler is made of
?’ thick sheet iron. Lower center is a Case 65 pulling a 12
bottom plow. On right is a dandy little Case at the Bird City
Show.
