Korean War anniversary triggers memories
Ten years ago Farm and Dairy published a couple of my columns about my experiences in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. I'd...
How the 1940 Nash slipped through my hands
As most of you don't remember, my birthday falls early in August and I always wax a little nostalgic around this time. For a number of years, I've had a low grade itch to own an old car or truck, but hate to spend the money that people want for most of them.
Imagine: McCormick-Deere instead of McCormick-Deering
When the farm implement giant, International Harvester Company, was formed in 1902 by the merger of the McCormick, Deering, Milwaukee, Plano and Champion harvester lines, it immediately gave the new firm about 90 percent of the binder and 80 percent of the mower production in the U.S.
Avery 5-10 Model B is little, steel-wheeled
Rated at 5-10 HP, the little Avery 5-10 Model B was just 50 inches wide, 54 inches high, 135 inches long and weighed 2,600 pounds.
Strite tractors once had a storied history
One of the many forgotten pioneers of the fledgling tractor industry was George T. Strite.
Looking back through pages of farm magazine
At the end of October 70 years ago, farmers and farmers' wives were reading the Farm Journal. It was a dark period in the...
Ohio Manufacturing Company built early tractors
One of the early tractor builders in Ohio was the Ohio Manufacturing Company in Upper Sandusky. In 1899, Samuel S. Morton built a crude tractor in York, Pa., with a large, horizontal, one-cylinder, hopper-cooled Otto engine mounted on a relatively, for the time, light-weight chassis with a short wheelbase.
Pennsylvania can claim first covered bridge
The first covered bridge in America is believed to have been the High Street (later, Market Street) Bridge across the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
The Happy Farmer tractor was anything but happy
The Happy Farmer tractor did not exactly live up to its name.
Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: Catalog from 1894 gave advice to farm owners
I have a reprint of The Country Gentleman's Catalogue for 1894. Published in England, it was meant not for the English yeoman farmer who actually did the work, but for the "gentlemen" who owned those farms and estates.
