The VerHages use this 1977 Deutz D 8006 on the feed cart in their Holstein operation at VerHage Holsteins. Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a ...
The genius of pioneer inventors can confound us. Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early ...
3An article of mine in the October 2022 issue of Farm Collector focused on how loaded farm trucks were a “block in the road” due to their slow travel. An explanation is necessary to define the ...
This 1937 John Deere A Unstyled, displayed at the American Tractor Museum in Perryville, MO, started on cheaper kerosene before switching to gasoline. Determining the all-time favorite tractor among ...
Learn about the history of the round baler and the many men and companies that claimed to be the first to create a functional ...
The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...
This One Minute grain grader and cleaner was made in Newton, Iowa, and came with a removable hand crank so the machine could be powered with a special drive attachment. The end view of the Viking mill ...
Ted Delooza, of Penn Yan, N.Y., on the 1970 Cub Cadet Model 106 he restored to use at plow days and for show. Note the raised panel stamped into the hood, and the one-piece fender/footrest that ...
An illustration of a typical Delco farm installation with the engine not only powering the generator but also belted to a line shaft, which in turn drives a churn, a cream separator and water pump.
During World War II, gasoline was rationed. Using ration books like this one, motorists were limited to a weekly allowance of gasoline, although farmers and truckers could get all the fuel they needed ...
A wooden cylinder churn shown in a 1928 Milk and Egg Producers catalog put out by Moore Brothers, Albany, N.Y. Today I was making a sandwich for lunch. Upon opening the butter dish I found a neat, ...