Back in the late 1940's our farmer neighbor had a threshing machine and did custom threshing for local farmers. He used a 15-30 McCormick Deering on the belt. I was a teenager and I followed it as they always needed extra help. They paid good and fed you like a king. In 1949 or 1950 we were on the last farm of the season. They were blowing the straw into the straw mow and a lit light bulb started a fire. The 15-30 had solid rubber and never had much traction and wouldn't pull the threshing machine out of the barn. There wasn't many dry eyes around there. We had an IH combine that ran off the pto. In 1951 my brother and I graduated from high school and he joined the Air Force. I went to work for the US government and was drafted in 1953. My dad sold the farm in 1954 and my nephew has the home they bought after the farm was sold. My dad had a degree in agriculture and went to work for a chemical company. Hal
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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