Monday, June 16, 2025
Let's Talk Rusty Iron

Let's Talk Rusty Iron

Since their early days, American sawmills have come a long way.

Spring planting had to be completed quickly to take advantage of the best seeding time and to avoid a big variation in the time the crop was ready to cut.
Allis-Chalmers Model 6-12

Allis-Chalmers (the name wasn't adopted until 1901) was an old company when tractors came along, having begun in 1847 as Decker & Seville to manufacture buhr mills in Milwaukee.

As some of you may have gathered, I have an extensive collection of old farm magazines from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. I like...

Several generations of Salem High School students bought school supplies at the Harris Printing Co. store across North Lincoln and up a few doors...

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.
corn

Learn more about planting corn in checkrows.

It was a hot night a few weeks ago and, after a supper of corn on the cob and sweet Nancy's delicious Swiss steak,...
elephants

Sam Moore recalls a story about milk from the Scientific American Supplement No. 288, dated July 9, 1881, On the Composition of Elephants’ Milk.
treadpower

Before the internal combustion engine was perfected or steam power became popular, animals were used to supplement human brawn as a power source.