Malabar Farm Ohio State Park Learn about Malabar Farm, an Ohio State Park and historical site connected to author Louis Bromfield that doubles as a fully functional farm

Jun 23, 2022 · An agricultural inventions timeline of the most significant agricultural inventions during the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. Ten years ago this month, the first issue of Farm Collector hit the mail-boxes of the first subscribers, so it seems appropriate to do a “Ten Most” column about the history of farming machinery in celebration.

Sep 19, 2011 · The Great Depression that caused so much trouble in the world during the 1930s ended only with the boom caused by World War II. For American farmers however, the downturn began shortly after World War I ended, continuing mostly unabated for two decades.

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Aug 1, 1998 · McCormick-Deering farm implements and Farmall tractors helped IHC become the giant of the industry. Its 1923 U.S. farm equipment sales of $150 million tripled those of second place Deere & Co. “Harvester is, of course, the greatest single agricultural enterprise in the world,” trumpeted Fortune magazine at the time.. However, even a corporate giant such as IHC wasn’t immune to the ...

Jul 1, 2001 · One end of the 3/4- to 1-inch draft rope was secured to one side of the carrier. The other end ran down and around the fork pulley and back up over the rope pulley at the opposite side of the carrier.

May 3, 2011 · Could the white ring around this moon be warning of rain or snow? Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons user SeanMack: Early American farmers (and I’m sure many others) held some strange beliefs.

Aug 4, 2022 · The word gristmill typically defines a process in which millstones are used to grind grain. The grain is fed into a hole (the eye) in the upper (or runner) stone and is ground into flour or meal between it and the lower (or bed) stone.A set of gears driven by the water wheel causes the upper stone to turn; the lower stone is fixed and does not turn.

Oct 1, 2006 · Hough’s mid-1930s hydraulic shovel mounted on this Allis-Chalmers Special Model WM crawler makes short work of loading and excavating jobs. The loader featured hydraulic lift with gravity dump; the tractor was equipped with a special long track frame to enhance fore-aft stability and new Positive Seal track rollers with an extended 200-hour maintenance interval compared with 10 hours.

Oct 9, 2020 · State and county fairs have long been a popular venue for tractor manufacturers to show off the latest and greatest. This Oliver 88 – a 1948 model – came along well after 1937, when the Oliver Farm Equipment Co. sponsored a contest at fairs across the country to select color combinations for their Model 70 tractor.