threshing machine history the name Swanton will always be synonomous with Abner D. Baker and the A. D. Baker Company which he Abner D. Baker was born March 17th, 1861, in Knox County, Ohio. When ...

My father and family lived on a farm in Franklin County, Illinois until the time of his death in 1921. A number of farmers including my father, that lived in that vicinity owned silos that were to be ...

everybody, come up with her’! O. beautiful isle of memory! These thoughts carry me hack beyond what were working days for me, to child-hood days of boyish play–days when I would beg the engineer to ...

An Old Iron Legacy of Plowing Inheritance put retiree back on a tractor, plowing with vintage equipment.

An in-depth look at the history of the versatile International Harvester Cub Cadet compact garden tractor.

The mechanical hay press made loose-hay transportation a thing of the past.

The State Department expressed an interest in the tests, believing the use of jeeps in farm work could help improve the agricultural productivity of liberated countries until such time as tractor ...

Arcade toys enthralled generations of farm children with cast-iron Farmall Ms and Fordson model Fs.

Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: U.S. farmers faced high farm mortgages and big debts even before the Great Depression began, and the stock market crash and dust storms only made it worse.

The story of the Cleveland Tractor Company is the story of the gifted and inventive family of Thomas H. White and his sons, Thomas II, Rollin, Windsor, Clarence and Walter. Thomas White started White ...

The Farm Jeep, a low-cost alternative to the tractor couldn’t cut it on the farm mostly because of its light weight, weak drive train and cost.

Jim Robinson’s (Derby, Conn.) well-preserved and fully functional HE Payloader dating to the early 1950s. The simple curves in the loader arms increased wheel clearance, allowed for larger carry loads ...