R. R. #13, Box 209, Brazil, Indiana 47834
This photograph is probably of an Illinois threshing scene.
Written on the back is the following: ‘1911Bill Vogelear’s
Minneapolis 25-75 steamer. 44 x 64′ separator with Garden City
wing feeders. Bill’s nephew, Jake Kleinhesselink, 15, was water
boy; following year he was engineer at 16 years of age. This big
steamer would pull the separator through potato land as slick as a
whistle. Later tractors 40-80’ Minneapolis had all they could
do to pull separator through plowed field in low gear in 1920. I
was five years old when this picture was taken and had to stay
inside the garden fence when they pulled on our yard. G.H.
Gesink
whistle. Later tractors 40-80’ Minneapolis had all they could
do to pull separator through plowed field in low gear in 1920. I
was five years old when this picture was taken and had to stay
inside the garden fence when they pulled on our yard. G.H.
Gesink
P. S. For three years I had a 28 x 48′ Minneapolis standard
thresher and this saved the grain from the straw better than the 36
x 58′ Case. After rain they always had green straw
pile.’
