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In 1927 I entered the University of Nebraska; of all colleges, it would be the College of Agriculture. After graduation from college I spent 10 years with the Soil Conservation Service, and all of that time was on farms and ranches in the plains area. I spent another 12 years operating a Farm and Ranch Management Service.
Modern equipment has made great changes in farming and ranching in the United States. The harvesting of grain is done with machines that replaced much of the physical labor that was once required. When electricity came to the rural areas, it revolutionized life on the farm and ranch.
Large combines that traveled from one farm to another, made the handling of grain much easier, and electric elevator and augers have made it possible to get the grain into storage, with out touching it with hand equipment.
The photos are taken from the magazine, THE FURROW. A published by the JOHN DEERE CO. a magazine that Dad received for years. They show the equipment we used to cut and thresh wheat, oats, barley, and rye. The grain binder was a great invention, it cut and bound the grain so it could be handled with little loss. It was pulled by four horses. The wooden reel pushed the standing grain back over a cutting bar, and onto a moving canvas platform. Two elevator canvas belts took it to packers that pressed it into a bundle, and a circular needle, threaded with binder twine circled the bundle and threaded a device that tied a knot. The bundle was then dropped into a basket that would carry several bundles, and dumped in a windrow where they would be set up in shocks. Dad hired extra help, sometimes Indians from the reservation, until his sons were big enough to help.
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Metzger Memories
