Encore presentation shares fond farm memories
(Author’s note: This is an “encore” presentation of this column, which was first published in 2002.)
Christmas on the western Pennsylvania farm where I grew...
Horse-powered equipment makes lots of progress
Nancy and I just got back from Lancaster County, Pa., where I attended the 18th annual Horse Progress Days. This was the 16th consecutive...
Remembering the bigger, better IHC Mogul
To start off 2012, here's the story of a tractor that was bright and shiny and new 100 years ago. The International Harvester Company introduced the International Mogul 12-25 — its first lightweight tractor — in 1912. Even though the Mogul 12-25 weighed almost 5 tons, it was a whole lot lighter than the huge, clumsy machines that IHC had been building up until then.
Flashback: Military convoy rolls through Ohio in 2009
Last week a convoy of restored military vehicles rolled through Salem, Ohio, inspiring Sam Moore to dust off and rerun a column he wrote 10 years ago.
1881 study looked at elephant’s milk
Sam Moore recalls a story about milk from the Scientific American Supplement No. 288, dated July 9, 1881, On the Composition of Elephants’ Milk.
Yes, women have definitely come a long way
Man works from sun to sun, but woman s work is never done.This old saying certainly applied to the average farm wife in the...
The capstan made hard work quite a bit easier
Way back in antiquity, man himself had to provide any muscle power needed to perform useful work. This, of course, drastically limited the amount...
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.
Fordson tractors were loved beyond U.S. borders
The first of Henry Ford’s long anticipated farm tractors rolled off the Dearborn assembly line more than 90 years ago on Oct. 8, 1917....
Truck transportation came a long way
A look back at the development of the Packard truck in the early 1900s.
