After making repairs to the 1940s single-row corn picker owned by Don Magee, Larry Gottula starts the 1950s Massey Harris tractor while Warren Beckman tosses an ear into the old galvanized Oliver ...

The tractor coughed but didn’t catch, so the old farmer on the ground yelled up to the old farmer behind the wheel. “The black button,” Don Magee said. “You push it in.” And then it roared to life, an ...

SURRY COUNTY, Va. — The old one-row corn picker may not be much to look at compared to the giant agri-industrial combines of today. But when the first practical models began to appear in the fields ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before World War II, annual national championships were held to determine who could hand-harvest corn the fastest. Fairbury native ...

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John K. Parlett Collection of Agricultural Ephemera / Series 3: John Deere and Company, John Deere Plow Company Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees ...