Livestock and machinery filled 1840s fairgrounds
How about that Dodge Ram ad at the Super Bowl? It’s not often that the advantages and benefits of farming are placed before such...
The ‘important’ issues of November 1938
Sam Moore recalls the pressing issues of 80 years ago, just after he turned 5 and was probably happily anticipating Christmas.
The great race: auto vs. locomotive
Harry McGee raced the St. Louisan from Indianapolis to Terre Haute in 1915, proving an automobile could provide faster transportation than a train.
The story of the John Deere organization
I have a copy of General Catalog No. 200, issued in 1940 by the John Deere Plow Co. of Columbus, Ohio. The book’s index...
Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: Sure sign of spring: Engine and tractor shows
Well, Mother Nature is playing an April Fool’s Day trick on us — it’s snowing as I write this. However, it must be spring;...
Of early tractor companies, few survived
During the years of World War I and after, at least until the severe agricultural depression of 1921, tractor manufacturers and wannabes, as well as not a few charlatans who only hoped to sell stock in non-existent tractor companies, were thick on the ground, especially in the Midwest.
Davis automobiles had a short, but interesting, life
O.K., admit it; you’ve never heard of a Davis automobile. Well, neither had I until a visit to the National Truck Museum in Auburn,...
Stark County was hotbed of farm manufacturing
Stark County, Ohio, was a hotbed of farm implement manufacturing during the last half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th....
Pioneer corn shuckin’ was a jolly good time
I found a book online titled: Canton: Its Pioneers and History. A Contribution To The History Of Fulton County, by Alonzo M. Swan, that was published in 1871.
The way it was when engines were young
One hundred years ago gas engines and tractors were still pretty new, and most people didn't know what made them go when they ran, or what made them stop when they quit.
