Deere’s short-lived involvement in autos
Sam Moore shares a passage Elmer J. Baker Jr. (1889-1964), a longtime commentator on the farm implement scene, wrote of the short-lived Deere-Clark car.
Honoring a friend is worth trek to Dyersville, Iowa
Many years ago, not long after I got into the “Rusty Iron” hobby, I began to attend the annual show put on by the...
Steam fueled a revolution, but was risky
One of the prime movers of the revolution was the steam engine and its ability to pull multiple cars of goods and people along tracks across the country.
Texas shivaree brings many twists and turns
(Thankfully) my wife and I never had the pleasure of a shivaree as newlyweds
These rusty iron buyers helped boost economy
This past fall, Oct. 23-24, to be exact, Aumann Auctions were in charge of dispersing the large collection of antique tractors and paper ephemera...
What was making news in America in 1939
October 1939: Poland was desperately fighting the German Wehrmacht in the west and the Red Army in the east, vestiges of the Great Depression lingered in this country, FDR was well into his 2nd term as President and your author was in his second month of 1st grade at Court School, a one-roomed frame building in western Pennsylvania.
Good old days: Tricking the schoolmaster
Local schools were scarce in frontier communities during the mid- to late-19th century, nor was there much in the way of celebrating the Christmas holiday.
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.
Women prove they’ve come a long way, baby
Even though women have, since the beginning of time, labored mightily to help feed, clothe and house their families, as well as bearing the...
Farmers just want what’s broke…fixed
As a result of World War I, farm help was scarce and expensive so gasoline tractors were becoming more and more popular on American farms.