September 2021 Volume 24, Issue 2

RESTORING THE LONG-LOST

SORG
UNUSUAL DESIGN IS THE HALLMARK
OF THIS EARLY, LITTLE-KNOWN AND
LASTING
LEGACY
JOSEPHINE ROBERTS
REFLECTS ON
WAR’S IMPACT
ON U.K. FARMS
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DEPARTMENTS FEATURES SEPTEMBER 2021 14

2 First Things
Remembering the Big Chill.
14 Restoring the Long-Lost
Sorg Oil-Gas Engine
4 Letters Unusual design is the hallmark of this early,
little-known and rare engine.
6 What is it? Leslie C. McManus
Can you name these gizmos
and gadgets?
26 Cold Cash 26
10 Let’s Talk Remembering a unique cash crop
Rusty Iron at Crystal Lake in southwest Iowa.
Paris Universal Exposition Don McKinley
of 1900 was a crucial
showplace for agriculture
equipment manufacturers.
32 Where’s the dirt?
Bucolic scenes of farm life rarely, if ever,
Sam Moore show the farmer’s nemesis: dust and dirt.
20 Tales from Wales Clell Ballard
Jo Roberts takes a look at
British farming during World 38 Show Feature 32
War II.
Josephine Roberts
Celebrates Heritage
Nowthen Threshing Show marks milestone
28 Iron Age Ads by featuring a proud tradition.
Promoting a new company: Anne Zimmerman
J.I. Case Plow Works.

36 First Hand 40 Nothing Fancy

Putting up hay the old- Lowly spade disk preserved for posterity
fashioned way. at Little Village Farm.
David Roy Hill Jim Lacey

48 Line Up
52 Classifieds 6
On the cover: The 1- to 1-1/2hp Sorg Oil-Gas
engine’s piston remains stationary and the cylinder
reciprocates. – Photo by Ed and Karen Laginess.
 First Things

Landon Hall
Leslie C. McManus
Christine Stoner
Group Editor
Senior Editor
Associate Editor
The Big Chill
B
Carolyn Lang Art Director
Jenifer Davidson Advertising
Coordinator y this point in the could hope for was a good
summer, you may pair of wool socks. I sup-
Web and Digital Content have had all the hot pose folks back then were
Tonya Olson Digital Content Manager weather you want. better acclimated to low
Advertising Director While Farm Collector can’t temperatures than many
Brenda Escalante escalante@ogdenpubs.com change the weather, we of us today are, but still!
Display Advertising can share a story that just And then there was the
(800) 678-5779; adinfo@ogdenpubs.com might cool you off a bit. business of storage. It is
Classified Advertising In this issue, Don almost inconceivable to
(866) 848-5346; fcmclassifieds@ogdenpubs.com McKinley shares memo- me that blocks of ice cut
ries of ice harvests near the previous winter sur-
Newsstand: Bob Cucciniello; (785) 274-4401 his home town in south- vived summer tempera-
Customer Care: (866) 624-9388 west Iowa. This is not a tures with nothing more
new topic for Farm Collector. Over sophisticated than sawdust for insu-
the years, we have published articles lation. What a luxury it must have
on ice harvests, but none of them seemed to be able to buy a block of
were first-hand accounts. Most relied ice to cool a drink on a hot day or,
heavily on historic accounts for de- better yet, use in making homemade
tails, and accompanying images were ice cream.
Bill Uhler Publisher often limited to illustrations depict- You’ll find plenty other “cool” sto-
Cherilyn Olmsted Circulation & ing ice harvests, with photos of ice ries into this issue. We’ve brought you
Marketing Director harvest tools from collections. an in-depth look at an exceptionally
Bob Cucciniello Newsstand & Just a boy as local ice harvests rare gas engine, drilled into the impact
Production Director were winding down, Don’s involve- of World War II on agriculture in the
Bob Legault Sales Director ment was limited to that of observer. U.K., and visited agricultural equip-
While the men toiling at a uniquely ment manufacturers’ displays at the
Andrew Perkins Director of Events &
Business Development cold job decades ago might have ap- Paris Universal Exposition of 1900.
preciated another pair of hands, we Come in out of the heat. You can
Tim Swietek Information are well served today by a man who mow tomorrow. Today, pour a glass of
Technology Director
brings the past to life in a way very cold lemonade or iced tea and travel
Ross Hammond Finance & few can. back in time with Farm Collector.
Accounting Director As I read the article, I thought of Cheers!
men working outside, all day, in frig-
id temperatures. Inevitably, some of
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 Letters to
the Editor
Connecting dots on
rubber tires
In reading the well-written articles
by Sam Moore (Farm Collector, March
and April 2021), I was reminded of a
poster I photographed last February at
a museum in Winter Garden, Florida.
It features Case dealer Hoyle Pounds.
His most famous invention was the rub-
ber tractor tire (Patent No. 1,662,208,
awarded March 13, 1928). I have to
wonder if Mr. Firestone, who was a
friend of Mr. Edison and Mr. Ford and
visited them in Ft. Myers, Florida, hap-
pened to visit Winter Garden on his
way back home to Ohio and learned of
Mr. Pounds’ invention. Throughout his
life, Pounds continued to invent new
equipment. He was the first to adapt LP
gas to farm tractors.
Bradford DeVries,
Coopersville, Michigan
Aftermarket kit used on
Farmall M brake?
I recently saw a 1948 Farmall M trac-
tor that had the factory band brake on
the left side and a disc brake on the
right side. Was there an aftermarket
kit to change the band brake to a disc
brake? If so, did it work better than
the factory disc brake (which didn’t
work all that well)? I have seen a lot of
Farmall M tractors in my time and own
two, but have never seen one like this.
Thanks for a great magazine.
Dallas R. Taylor, Corydon, Indiana
4 September 2021
Harvesting with a binder in South Dakota
This photo was taken in the 1920s or ’30s in Perkins County, South Dakota.
My father, N.L. Hansen, is on the binder. The tractor is a McCormick-Deering
10-20. I think he’s cutting flax. I have the long steering rod and the binder
but it needs restoration.
My father was born in Denmark. He came to Yankton, South Dakota, in
1916. Later he joined the U.S. Army and served in World War II. He came to
Perkins County in March 1925. He came to Isabel, South Dakota, by train
with some of his machinery.
Jens Hansen, Meadow, South Dakota
Rediscovering a doodlebug
Many years ago, as a boy of 7 or 8, I saw a motorized “thing” on Whetstone
Road in Manlius, New York. One of the young men next door had built it. He and
his brother would take turns driving it down the street, turn around and come
back to their house.
A light came on in my
head while reading about
doodlebugs in your very
interesting periodical. The
youngest brother shops in
the retail hardware store
where I work, so I asked
Alan if he had any pictures
of his brother Bob’s doodle-
bug. Alan was surprised that
I remembered something
about that.
Lo and behold, Alan came
into the store with this pic-
ture and description of his
brother Bob’s creation. Bob
Lincoln was 21 or 22 in
about 1961 when he built
this doodlebug from scratch.
It is powered by a Wisconsin air-cooled engine from a hay baler, possibly 4hp. It
has a truck rear end, two transmissions (one with two-speed high/low gears), and
a Crosley front end and wheels. The frame was built with steel purchased from the
company their dad worked for, Brace-Mueller-Huntley Steel, Aluminum and Brass.
Jeffrey W. Loope, Manlius, New York
Farm Collector
Close look at old
photo yields clues to
engine collector
Greetings from a longtime Farm
Collector reader (since Vol. 1, Issue
2, believe it or not). Thanks so
very much for a truly excellent
publication. Please keep up your
good work. My heart breaks a
little more every time another old
iron magazine goes away, or goes
online only.
I was so very glad that you
re-ran the photo on Page 4 of the June
2021 issue from a previous issue. First,
let me join the long list of those nostalgia
fans who will truly miss the articles of the
most gifted Anthony Lovelace. With those
thoughts in mind, I am writing to share
some opinions and observations about
the photo of the Ford powering the family
water pump in the photos at the top of
Page 4.
First of all, it brings back memories
of growing up on a farm in West Texas,
where the well behind the house was the
only supply of water for the ranch, the
house and the cattle. If the pump wasn’t
operating, neither did the sinks or toilets.
the timing gear and the flyball governor
located on the left side of the engine
frame (from the rear) are all consistent
with a Sparta engine.
The rag stuffed in the cylinder, the
fact that the piston and head are off the
engine and the screwdriver or scraper
in the mechanic’s right hand all lead me
to think the engine may be down for a
valve job and quite possibly a good decar-
bonization and ring cleaning. The long
connecting rod – also a feature of Sparta
engines – appears to be leaning against
the crankshaft protruding from the drive
pulley, but I don’t see the piston. This
makes me wonder if the piston and
perhaps the valves may be soaking
in kerosene in the bucket to the
right of the mechanic’s right leg, to
loosen the carbon deposits.
A few other observations: The
water pump handle (for manual
operation) leaning against the
house at left suggests to me this
may not be the first “down time”
on an unscheduled or inconve-
nient basis for this engine. Maybe
the owner didn’t fully trust this
newfangled power source. Could the
wheelbarrow and shovel visible to the
left of the car’s front fender indicate the
engine decided to take a “break,” inter-
rupting a concrete project elsewhere on
the farm, necessitating the emergency
solution of powering the pump with the
family sedan? Wish I could make out more
details on the license plate.
Thanks again for re-running this great
photo. I look forward to many more years
of Farm Collector.
Dr. John S. Townsend IV,
Garland, Texas

SPROUTS
While we did have an electric pump, the
situation when it didn’t work was every
bit as serious as that depicted in the photo TUCKER COOPER
on Page 4. When the pump was out of AGE 14
commission, our only options were to
draw water by hand with a bucket or drive
several miles to my grandparents’ home TUCKER COOPER
to “borrow” water from them in all the IS OUR SEPTEMBER WINNER!
empty milk jugs we could find. Tucker Cooper, 14, is this month’s featured artist. The son
The engine undergoing repair is almost of Stephanie Cooper, Clayton, Indiana, Tucker will receive
certainly a 4hp Sparta-Economy. I have a Farm Collector T-shirt: Congratulations, Tucker!
two of those engines. One is a good
dependable runner and the other is a
parts engine. The most compelling evi-
dence of the identification of this engine is
the inverted flat top in the water hopper.
The Sparta engines were very tall and nar-
row compared with other similar engines
while still using very wide main bearings.
Both of these features are readily appar-
ent in the partially disassembled engine
shown on Page 4. The muffler and mixer
from the engine (still attached to the head
at the mechanic’s feet) are also correct
for a Sparta-Economy. The location of

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 What Is It?

WANTED:
T
he genius of pioneer inventors can confound us.
Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming
in the 19th and early 20th centuries have become

GADGETS, GIZMOS contemporary curiosities, or even mysteries. Here are

six sent in by readers. Do you know what they are?

& CONTRAPTIONS
Answers to the September 2021 items will appear in the November 2021 issue.
Answers for new items in this issue must be received by Sept. 5, 2021.

SEPTEMBER MYSTERY TOOLS

A. Tool measures about 7 inches long. No
A. markings.
B. B. What was this hammer used for?
C. Tool measures 18-1/4 inches long. One
side is engraved T08 and the other side D7,
a sideways T and sideways 2. Three teeth
show no wear on sides. Original casting
marks show on every tooth. The head
swivels 15-20 degrees.

D. Eight-sided metal tool measures 7/8-inch

at one end and 1-5/8 inch at the other.
Total length of 10-3/4 inches; weighs 4-1/2
pounds. No markings.

E. Metal blade measures 1/8-inch thick and is

C. 4 inches wide. Tool is 12 inches from top
of handle to tip of blade. Weighs 1-3/4
pounds. Marked Number 207 between the
D. blade and the handle.

F. Tool is metal with a wooden handle. Blade

measures 3-1/4 inches long by 2-1/2 inches
wide; total length 14 inches. No markings.

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Send prints to Farm Collector, 1503 SW 42nd
St., Topeka, KS 66609. Send digital images to
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against a plain background. Include
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No photos will be returned.
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To identify an item:
Send answers (with your name and
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Answers for new items shown in this
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 ANSWERS TO
JULY
A. Connecting apparatus
for wooden windmill pump
rod. Identified by Dan
Connell, Tryon, Neb.; Dave
Blausey, Gibsonburg, Ohio;
Joe Barnes, Lexington, Ky.;
Dennis Howard, Boyne Falls,
Mich.; Craig Young, Orange
Grove, Texas; Sam Schoenhals,
Ridgecrest, Calif.; Don
Schuhmacher, Austin, Texas;
Glen Kennell, Finksburg,
Md.; Joseph Morine, Erie,
Ill.; Maurice Lange,
Hallam, Neb.; Wayne
Rogers, Corsicana,
Texas; Barbara J. Wise,
South Dayton, N.Y.;
Marlin Herbst, Merrill, Iowa;
John Ernst, Iowa City, Iowa;
Virgil Cassill, Drakesville, Iowa;
Ronald Weers, Diller, Neb.;
Jim Klinkerman, LaSalle, Colo.;
Gary Willison, Standish, Maine;
Joe Stebbins, Miamisburg,
Ohio; and Robert Gayler, Boise
City, Okla. Photo submitted by
David Ruark, Pomeroy, Wash.
D. No positive identification. Some type of
mill Photo submitted by Erwin L. Fullerton,
S. Woodstock, Vt.
E. Unidentified. Some kind of stretcher designed for
permanent installation. Photo submitted by Wayne Beckom,
Kokomo, Ind.
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MYSTERY TOOLS
B. Horse hair clipper. Identified by
Dan Connell; Robert Scholz, Elmo,
Mo.; Ray Dias, Manteca, Calif.;
Richard Lehr, Delmar, Del.;
Joseph Morine; Ken Bolton, Fall
Creek, Wis.; Maurice Lange; Duane
Spencer, DeFuniak Springs, Fla.; Marlin
Herbst; John Ernst; Lyle Olson, Faribault,
Minn.; Erwin Fullerton, S. Woodstock, Vt.; Jim
Klinkerman; Ron Bush, Bayport, N.Y.; and John
S. Rauth, Ridgely, Md. Photo submitted by Tracy
Fletcher via email.
C. Repurposed rope rings from a Lowden rope
hay sling. Identified by Robert Scholz; Mark Williams,
Pandora, Ohio; Joseph Morine; Maurice Lange; Marlin
Herbst; Lyle Olson; Rolland F. Thomas, Mondamin,
Iowa; Roger F. Larson, Worthington, Minn.; and Virgil
Cassill. See Patent No. 444,546. Photo submitted by
Andrew Gasbarre, North Royalton, Ohio.
Patent 444,546: Hay sling.
Patent awarded to William
Louden, Fairfield, Iowa, Jan.
13, 1891.
F. Unidentified. Virgil Cassill
and David Kuipers, Arlington,
S.D., believe it to be a cast
iron tip from the bucker tooth
of an overshot hay stacker. “A
chase bucker would gather up
hay from a row, push it to the
overshot stacker and onto the
lowered teeth,” David explains.
“The finger that was spring-loaded
would push down as the hay passed
over it. When you backed out the
chase bucker, the finger would
pop up and hold the hay on. We
had a John Deere stacker in our old
machinery row, but the Deere chase
bucker was used for many years when
we stacked hay with a F10 Farmhand
and hay cage.” Photo submitted by Steven
Sylvester, Centuria, Wis.
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Sam Moore
MUST-SEE
SHOW:
PARIS UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION
IN 1900 WAS A CRUCIAL
SHOWPLACE FOR AGRICULTURE
EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS
T
he grand opening of the Paris
Universal Exposition was
April 14, 1900, although very
few buildings or exhibits were
complete, and scaffolding had to be hurriedly
(and temporarily) removed so the president
of France could cut the ribbon. Meant to be
a glittering showcase of the industrial and
technological might of the Western world
on the eve of a new century, the exposition
drew 76,000 exhibitors from all over the
world who did their best to impress more
than 50 million visitors. These visitors, also
from all over the world, saw such wonders as
a moving sidewalk, wireless telegraphy and a
moving staircase called an “escalator.”
The June 7, 1900, issue of Farm Implement News describes
the large American contribution to the extensive agricultural
portion of the event, even though all the machinery had to
be sent to New York and loaded on ships for the voyage to Le
Havre, France, before being transported overland to the Expo
site in Paris.
As might be expected, Deering and McCormick, the two
titans of the U.S. harvesting machinery business in that era,
10 September 2021
Above: The Deering Retrospective Exhibit. This exhibit
consisted of more than 100 models representing such
machines as Hussey’s reaper, the Marsh harvester and
Peck’s corn binder, all in glass display cases. The models
were “… beautifully finished in natural woods, and metals
highly polished and lacquered.” The models were set up
so “… that visitors may cause any machine to operate by
simply grasping a silk cord.” Wouldn’t it be great to find
one of these models today?
went all out. The harvester wars were playing havoc with
profits at home and both firms hoped to increase their lucra-
tive export trade.
Deere battles back after disastrous accident
Deering Harvester Co. set up an elaborate display in the
U.S. Agricultural Annex building as pictured in the woodcut
illustration shown above. In addition, the French government
gave Deering the honor of setting up the “Official Retrospec-
tive Exhibit” in the U.S. section of the Palace of Agriculture.
This exhibit was “… a review of the methods employed in
harvesting grain at various stages of the world’s progress, but
more particularly during the past century.”
Other exhibitors in the Annex included D.M. Osborne
Co., Johnson Harvester, Plano Mfg., Adriance, Platt & Co.,
Walter A. Wood, Oliver Chilled Plow Works, Milwaukee Har-
vester, Stover Mfg., Aermotor, F.E. Myers and Reliable Incu-
bator & Brooder.
Deere & Co. ran into some bad luck with its exhibit, which
was lost at sea during the Atlantic crossing. The Deere ma-
chinery was loaded above the freight steamer Poyak, which
sailed from New York and was due in Le Havre on March 15.
Farm Collector

The article says, “From the day it passed out of the American
port to the present it has never been seen or heard of and no
clue to its fate has been found. It is supposed it sank in mid-
ocean and all on board were lost.” Apparently, a replacement
shipment was made, as a John Deere ad from October 1900
claims a gold medal for “Efficiency and Merit” was awarded
to the firm’s Victor plow at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
Models, panoramas and full-size equipment
Predictably, McCormick Harvesting Co. one-upped the
other exhibitors by erecting its own building, in which were
housed full-size specimens of all the company’s machines, in-
cluding a self-binding harvester, self-raking Daisy reaper, one-
horse mower, New No. 4 mower and Big 4 mower, hand- and
self-dump steel hay rakes, self-binding corn harvester, corn
husker and shredder, header, and manual-delivery reaper. In
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Above: The exhibits of D.M. Osborne Co. and Johnston
Harvester Co.
Lower right: A view of the Paris Exposition grounds
showing the U.S. Agricultural Annex building at right,
connected by a bridge to the Palace of Agriculture at left.
Lower left: The McCormick building at the Paris
Exposition with flags and pennants flying. Notice the
“horseless carriage” on the street in the foreground.
addition, full-size models of McCormick’s first reaper were
displayed and several “other machines perfected and devel-
oped by him and his successors.”
Mimicking the Deering display (or maybe it was the other
way around), the McCormick building featured a “… scenic
panorama that represents, in a realistic way, the mammoth
works of the McCormick company in Chicago, with mov-
ing boats and cars bringing the lumber, coal and iron to the
works, and carrying away the finished product; while the
other side of this panorama contains a typical American farm
scene, with moving harvesters cutting the grain and grass.”
On a balcony around the inside of the building were “…
several hundred photographs of harvest scenes, procured
at large expense from all the grain-growing regions of the
world.” And all, no doubt, featured McCormick harvest-
ing machines. In the U.S. Agricultural Annex building were
September 2021 11
“… beautifully finished specimens of
the McCormick self-binding harvester,
self-raking reaper and New No. 4 mow-
er. Facsimile reproductions of 70 of the
most important medals won by the Mc-
Cormick machines at great international
expositions are also displayed here, with
original diplomas and objects of art.”
McCormick showcases
its twine
Also in the Annex, “To illustrate in a
striking way the immense output of the
great McCormick works there is exhib-
ited a scenic panorama of the gates of
the works, and in the distance a country
landscape. The gates are opened each 30
seconds at the sound of a gong, when a
team drawing a tiny harvesting machine
appears and quickly moves across the
foreground of the scene from the gates
to the country beyond, disappearing
behind the hills. Each 30 seconds the
operation is repeated throughout the
entire day, the intention being to bring
forcibly to mind the fact that from the
mammoth McCormick works in Chica-
go, more than 1,200 completely finished
machines are produced each day.”
On the third floor of the Annex was a
series of models showing the progress of Above: The Deering Harvester Co. exhibit. In the large display case at the right
grain harvesting methods from Cyrus’ end of the display is an elaborate model of the Deering Chicago Works. The
first reaper to the present day. The au- description reads, “The (model) is lighted by electricity, the drop forge foundry
thor gushes, “Each of these models is and malleable works having alternating red lights representing casts. In the
perfect in the minutest details and costs foreground, trains of cars move hither and thither and boats are in motion
several times as much as a full-size ma- on the river at the rear.” Just beneath the miniature factory is a model of an
chine. Each of them has a team, beau- American farm, with a tiny team of horses pulling an Ideal mower around a
tifully harnessed, hitched to it, and a field of grass with “every movement being true to life.” Below the farm model
driver in the seat gives the exhibit the is a huge photograph of all 9,000 Deering employees. Said to be the largest
look of a miniature outfit ready for the group photograph ever taken, the picture was 18 feet long and 20 inches high.
field. The models are in glass cases and On the revolving pedestal at left center can be seen a Deering “automobile
are all belted to a shaft driven by an mower,” while around the base of the pedestal is a round divan of “… fine
electric motor which revolves the reels Russia leather capable of seating 12 persons comfortably.” A Deering Ideal
and rakes and sends the knives swiftly binder, reaper and mower are part of the exhibit, as well as a dump rake and
through the guards.” mower with a dropper attachment. These machines were “beautifully finished
In the U.S. section of the Palace of Ag- in gold, silver and bronze.”
riculture, McCormick had its twine ex-
hibit. “Artistically modeled figures and
photographs of the machines, and examples of the products with disc and diamond harrows. Peter Hamilton Mfg. Co.
of these machines, the various steps in preparing and spin- showed a drill and two cultivators, while several other Cana-
ning are shown. A relief model of the McCormick twine mill dian firms showed plows and harrow, seeders, harvesting and
is also shown, while surmounting all is a figure of an Ameri- haying machines, barrel churns and lawnmowers.
can farmer holding in his hands a tag taken from a ball of A glaring omission from the account was the J.I. Case
McCormick twine.” Kind of gets you right there, doesn’t it? Threshing Machine Co. It seems inconceivable that there
wasn’t a Case thresher and steam traction engine among the
The mystery of the J.I. Case exhibit exhibits. Although I can find no mention of the Case Thresh-
In the Canadian government building, the largest manu- ing Machine Co. being at the Expo, the Russian government
facturer in Canada, Massey-Harris, had a large exhibit of ma- did order 100 25hp Case engines in July 1900. Is it possible
chines, which were “… remarkable for their beauty of finish. the czar, or one of his representatives, saw the machines ex-
What can’t be polished wood in them is nickel silver, so that hibited at Paris? I guess we’ll never know.
they make a most brilliant appearance.” There was a “Right- One of my long-held fantasies is to possess a time machine
hand binder finished in curly birch and nickel. Left-hand in which I could travel back to a specific time in history, stay
binder in white ash and nickel. Imperial reaper in cherry and a little while and then get safely back to the present. If ever
nickel. Thirteen-tine cultivator in cherry and nickel. Ted- I acquire such a machine, the 1900 Paris Exposition is one
der in nickel and maroon finish.” In addition, MH showed place I’ll surely go. FC
one- and two-horse mowers, several different hay rakes, and a
whole range of plows and scufflers. Sam Moore is a longtime Farm Collector columnist. This col-
The Cockshutt Plow Co. exhibited plows of all types, along umn originally appeared in the March 2006 issue.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2021 AT 9:30AM
LOCATED ON THE RANCH - 10105 132ND AVE SW, SCRANTON, NORTH DAKOTA, 58653
PREVIEW SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2021 10-6PM
PLEASE NOTE: IT IS BEST TO BE ONSITE - WE WILL HAVE ONLINE - BUT CELL RECEPTION IS LIMITED! You won’t want to miss these amazing Rod Projects, Collector cars, signs, and more!
DIRECTIONS TO AUCTION: Highway 12 and Take the Scranton, North Dakota Exit. Go over the bridge and head south on 132nd Ave approx. 14.6 miles to location. Look for signs.
Are you looking for a fabulous Rod Project, Award Winning collector car, wonderful memorabilia, parts and
great anƟque tractors, look no further than the Krinke CollecƟon AucƟon. Mr. Krinke was born just south of the
ranch and loved them old cars. Growing up there wasn’t a car that he didn’t like and a motorcycle he wouldn’t
ride. Ranch life was hard with raising crops, caƩle, kids, and yes, a nice crop of old iron., Mr. Krinke would Įnd
those old Ford Coupes, Chevrolet Classics, and more and bring them to the ranch for a future project. Through
the years, he restored many Ford Cars, Chevrolet Classics, and other makes to award winning status. But the
collecƟon doesn’t stop there. There are many rod projects including 1932,33,34 Ford Coupes, Sedan, pickups,
and much more. Ford Cars were a primary focus for Mr. Krinke. When looking for cars he would come across
amazing signs, parts, anƟque tractors, and more memorabilia. This amazing collecƟon will be sold at aucƟon
on the ranch. This is one aucƟon that you won’t want to miss! Cell recepƟon is very limited and you won’t
want to miss out on the bidding, so plan to make the trip to North Dakota and plan to have your mind blown!

ANTIQUE TRACTORS: FORD/FERGUSON/FORDSON: 1940 Ford 9N/Ferguson,

1954/55 Ferguson 35, fully restored, 1943 Ford 9N, fully restored, 1952 Ford
8N w/Funk Conversion, RARE 1940 Ford 9N w/ Al2 Diecast Radiator,
1948/9 Ford 8N, fully restored, 2 - Fordson Tractors,
FARMALL: Farmall Cub with Attachments, H Farmall..
JOHN DEERE: 1957 John Deere 420, RARE 1960 John Deere 330, restored,
1953 John Deere John Deere 40, 1959 John Deere 430…
COLLECTOR CARS: FORD: 1915 Ford Model T Touring Project, 1929 Ford Model A 4dr
Sedan, Older restore, RARE 1934 Ford Victoria 2dr Sedan, beautifully restored, Dearborn
Award winner, FH V8, 1935 Ford Deluxe 4dr Sedan, restored, FH V8, 1936 Ford Cabriolet,
fully restored, FH V8, beautiful, 1940 Ford Coupe, fully restored, FH V8, amazing,
1941 Ford Convertible, Dearborn Award winner, fully restored, FH V8,
1957 Ford Retractable HT, Red/White Beautifully restored!
APPROX. 70 AMAZING ROD PROJECTS! MOSTLY FORD!
RARE Barn Fresh 1932 Ford 3 Window Coupe! RARE 1932 Ford Victoria
2dr Sedan Bodies, 1932 Ford 4dr Sedan, 1933 Ford 3 Window Coupe Body,
1933 Ford 4dr Sedan, 1934 Ford Coupe Bodies, 1934 Ford Sedan for rod
or restore, 1934 Ford Roadster Project, 1940 Ford coupe, 1940 Ford
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1947 Ford Coupes, 1954 Ford Sunliner Convertible, 1930/1 Ford Model A 5 window
Coupe Body, and more! Chevrolet Coupes and more for rod and restore!
FORD/DODGE TRUCKS & PICKUPS FOR ROD OR RESTORE: 1937 Ford 1 ½ ton Truck,
1936 Ford 1 ½ ton Truck, 1942 Ford Firetruck, 1941 Ford Truck, 1934 Ford Truck,
1937 Ford ½ ton pickups, 1952 Dodge Job-Rated ½ ton pickups, and more…
MERCURY: 1950 Mercury Convertible, Older restore, FH V8, loaded,
Yellow/White, 1964 Mercury Marauder 2dr HT, Original car, 390 V8,
30,893 miles, 1948 Mercury Coupe Project, 1942 Mercury Coupe, and more.
CHEVROLET/PONTIAC: 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible, National award
winner, 283 V8, AT, Beauty, 1954 Chevrolet 5 window Cab Pickup, 3100 series,
restored beauty, 1938 Chevrolet Coupe, Original for restore, 1950 Pontiac
Chiefton Convertible, 8 cylinder, nice original, and more.
COLLECTOR PARTS: Huge Assortment of grills, carbs, Restored FH Motors, NOS parts,
body panels, fenders, hoods, and more. Mostly Ford!
GAS & OIL GLOBES, SIGNS, AND MORE
GAS PUMPS: Wayne Upright Visible Pumps, Butler Upright Visible Pumps, Bennett Clock
Face and Computing Pumps, Tokheim Computing Pumps, G&B Computing Pumps, Wayne
Model 861 Upright Visible Clockface Pump, and more..
GAS GLOBES: RARE white milk glass Eagle Gas Globe, Mobil Gas Globes, Indian Gas Globe,
Red, Gold, Blue Red Crown Globes, Phillips 66 Globes, Texaco Gas Globes, and more!
SIGNS & MEMORABILIA: Large SS Porcelain Mobil Oil Pegasus, Porcelain Goodyear signs, Lightning
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Red Crown Porcelain Sign, Ford Clock, Schrader Advertising, and much more…
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your arrangements. Hotels are in Bowman, ND, and surrounding towns. Parking at sight. Cell service is limited at the ranch. Best
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Patent No.
1,153,526:
Combustion
engine. Patent
2 awarded to
William A.
Sorg, Minne-
apolis, Sept.
14, 1915.

1. A mixer from a Thor outboard motor replaced the engine’s

4 missing mixer. Photo courtesy Marv Hedberg.

2. The Sorg engine’s claim to fame is the fact that the piston
remains stationary as the cylinder reciprocates. Photo courtesy
Marv Hedberg.

3. The combustion chamber/head missing the intake valve,

cage and mixer (carburetor) and spark plug. At this point,
Marv was machining the slides so the piston and cylinder
would line up. The shims sticking out the sides were used
to determine how much to machine off of the lower crosshead
slide bars. Photo courtesy Marv Hedberg.

4. Marv Hedberg’s scale-model Sorg engine and the full-size

engine he restored for Ed Laginess were on display at the Cool-
spring Museum Summer Exposition. Photo by Karen Laginess.
 UNUSUAL DESIGN IS
THE HALLMARK OF THIS
EARLY, LITTLE-KNOWN
AND RARE ENGINE

RESTORING THE LONG-LOST

SORG ENGINE By Leslie C. McManus Today, the engine belongs to Ed Laginess, Carleton, Michi-
gan. Ed was the successful bidder in the February auction. Marv
Hedberg, Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, restored the engine for him.

W
hen a partially
disassembled engine
turned up at a February
2021 auction, it almost
immediately caused a buzz in the gas engine
collector world. The auction listing’s humble
description – “flywheel engine missing
parts” – gave no indication of the engine’s
rarity. A photo showed little more than
a piston and cylinder lying on top of the
A unique design feature – the piston remains stationary, and
the cylinder reciprocates – leaves no doubt that the piece is a
Sorg Oil-Gas engine.
The Sorg was a shoo-in for a collection that specializes, as
Ed’s does, in engines with mechanical oddities. Some 35 years
ago, six photos of the engine got more than a few second
looks at a 1985 Rice Lake, Wisconsin, show. Ed saw the pho-
tos and tried to find the engine’s owner but the engine basi-
cally disappeared.
Fast-forward to a 2021 auction, when Ed was the success-
ful bidder, and then skip ahead to mid-June, when the Sorg
made its debut at the Coolspring Museum Summer Exposition
in Pennsylvania.
“A lot of the people who looked at it at Coolspring think,
because of its size, its intricacies and the attention to detail,
that it may have been a factory prototype,” Ed says. “It very
well could be the only one.”

engine. But serious collectors pegged it as

one of only a very few Sorg engines – if not Above: The restored Sorg engine. Owner Ed Laginess opted to
retain the original patina. When the engine was sold at a 2021
the only Sorg – known to exist. auction, it had no serial number plate. Photo by Karen Laginess.

www.FarmCollector.com September 2021 15

 A three-decade quest for the Sorg finally paid off
in February, when Ed was the winning bidder.
“That engine always drove me nuts,” he says.
“There is nothing else like it in the engine world.
It blew past my expectations.” Photo by Karen
Laginess.

The first three pages were little more than a sales

Mechanically, he says, the engine is like new. “The main
connecting rod was never drilled or tapped,” he notes, lending
credence to the prototype theory. “But Marv got it purring like
a kitten.”
An unusual source of engine information
You wouldn’t figure Marv Hedberg to be a reader of Cos-
mopolitan magazine. In fairness, his interest is limited to one
specific issue dating to 1912. “Back then, Cosmopolitan dealt
with everything under the sun,” he explains. “It was primarily
a ladies’ magazine. The covers always showed fancy ladies in
fancy gowns, but it had lots of other articles.”
The object of Marv’s interest was, incredibly, a six-page arti-
cle in the May 1912 issue introducing the Sorg Oil-Gas Motor.
pitch for stock in the new venture owned by Gas
Corliss Co. of Minneapolis. But the final three
pages described in detailed (if flowery) text and
illustrations the workings of the unique engine.
The article notes that the engine, which was
to be run on kerosene, had been in testing for
more than 18 months. “We have laid our plans
for a large output, and the entire energy of our
plant is now being devoted to the immediate
production of the more popular sizes of these
engines,” noted the builder. Elsewhere in the
spread is an announcement that “Five and twelve
H.P. sizes are ready. Three and eighteen H.P. will be
ready in ninety days.”
Diamond Iron Works of Minneapolis was iden-
tified as the builder of the Sorg, which was designed and pat-
ented (in 1915) by William A. Sorg, Minneapolis. “Sorg had
a couple of patents on a vertical engine of a totally different
design, but otherwise, little is known about him,” Marv says.
“The factory that built the Sorg was a custom builder for any-
body with a design,” Marv says. “If you had a design, they’d
make patterns and build it for you.”
In the six-page Cosmopolitan spread, both Gas Corliss and
Diamond Iron Works repeatedly stressed their bona fides. “For
our responsibilities,” the Diamond Iron Works article asserted,
“see Dun’s and Bradstreet’s (two early commercial ratings services
that later merged to form Dun & Bradstreet).”
Assessing the damage
By the time Ed Laginess placed the winning bid on the Sorg,

SCALE MODEL PAVED THE WAY

Marv Hedberg’s 1/2-scale model of the Sorg, made
from a photo 20 years ago, turned out to be very
accurate once he was able to compare it to the
actual full-size engine.
FOR A SMOOTH RESTORATION
Fascinated by the unusual engine he
first saw in photos in 1985, Marv built
a 1/2-scale model of the Sorg some 20
years ago. Working from the original
photos, he scaled the model off a 1-inch
paint brush shown in one of the pictures.
It was a useful exercise. This year, when
he got his hands on the full-size engine,
he knew exactly what he was dealing
with. “I had it running within a month,”
he says. “I totally understood the engine
and what it needed.”
To build the scale model, Marv
first drew the entire engine in a CAD
program, ensuring that everything would
fit. “For me, that was fun to do,” he The photo Marv used as the
says. He made patterns for main casting, basis for his 1/2-scale model of
fabricated the base and machined the Sorg engine. Marv used the
cylinders. “I found flywheels that looked 1-inch paintbrush at the bottom
like they would fit, and they did.” of the photo to establish scale
– Leslie C. McManus for the project.

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 Lubricating Oil Tank Top Way Bar
Carburetor

Stationary Piston Reciprocating

& Combustion Connecting Rod
Chamber Cylinder
Starting Pot

Intake
Valve Lower Way Bar

Governor
Magneto Cross
Force Cam Shaft Cam Shaft
Fuel Pump Feed Head Air Valve
Drive Gear
Oiler Block

Plan view of the 5hp Sorg engine. Image courtesy Marv Hedberg.

the engine was in need of some TLC. “The cylinder had been distinctive feature. “The cross-slide arrangement is more like
cracked and brazed, but the bore had never been cleaned up, what the old steam engines had in the late 1800s, where they
and it had different rings that were totally unique,” Marv says. would guide the rod,” Marv says. “The piston is guided and
“I sleeved it and got different rings and made it run that way.” held straight, rather than the connecting rod going direct into
The engine’s intake valve assembly, mixer and the slide bars piston to a wrist pin.”
used to guide the cylinder were missing. Marv produced re- The engine as found had no built-in oiler. On the finished
placement linkage and CNC cut patterns for the slide bars. engine, an oiler tree was placed behind the engine’s flywheels.
“We found a little mixer that looks like it fits really well and it“The original design shown in the Cosmopolitan article includes
runs really well,” he says. “It’s off a Thor outboard motor but an oiler on top of a cover over the top of the crankshaft and
the bolt pattern lined right up cylinder,” Marv says, “so it would
with holes on the engine.” have had a drip or wipe-type oiler
Happily, everything fit. “It on it.”
was an interesting situation,” The Sorg has a combination
he says. “There’s .005-inch clear- cooling system. Water in the
ance on everything on that en- head goes back to the piston
gine. Everything’s got to be in and exits through an upper
line with no binding. It’s got to brass tube close to the intake
be right.” The engine showed valve. The cylinder is air-cooled
little wear; only the valve rock- with fins.
er arm pivots and rollers were Marv’s best guess is that the
stuck. “I’m not sure it had ever engine would be rated at 1 to
been run,” Marv says. “If it was, 1-1/2hp. With a 3-1/2-inch bore
it wasn’t very much.” and 16-1/2-inch-diameter fly-
wheel, the 125-lb. engine was
Economical or not, small, certainly smaller than the
Sorg engine was
One of the photos of the Sorg shown around at the 1985 5hp model referenced in the Cos-
behind the times Rice Lake, Wis., show. Photo courtesy Marv Hedberg. mopolitan article. “You could use
In 1912, an engine designed it to pump water, or run a grist-
around a stationary piston and mill or washing machine, or shell
a moving cylinder was a bit of an odd duck. “By then, most corn,” he says. “It was just a totally different design, maybe
of the engine manufacturers had settled on a standard single intended to get away from everybody else’s patents.”
moving piston and a heavy hopper,” Marv says. “Some had The Sorg may have been the product of over-engineering.
different cooling designs, but that was about it. In 1912, you “They may have had some grandiose idea that it’d be more
could buy a Fairbanks & Morse or International engine for less economical to run,” Marv speculates. “Maybe they thought
money and it’d be more durable.” they could pull in just a little bit of really rich fuel into cyl-
The Sorg has a sideshaft with small flyball governor that inder and fresh air from the back of piston, but there was
would control the throttle on the mixer, but otherwise the no extra suction valve on this engine. Evidently the design
cross-slide with the moving cylinder is the engine’s most didn’t work.”

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Above: Marv Hedberg (left) and
Ed Laginess with the restored Sorg
engine. Photo by Karen Laginess.

Above right: The Sorg is very, very

lightweight,” Marv says. “The origi-
nal cylinder walls were just 1/16-
inch thick before I put the sleeve in.
The walls were so thin I didn’t know
if I dared run it.” Photo by Karen
Laginess.

Center: Cover of the May 1912

issue of Cosmopolitan gives no clue
of a six-page article on the Sorg
engine inside. “I watched for a
copy of that magazine on eBay for
four or five years,” Marv says. Image courtesy Marv Hedberg.

Far right: Marv produced foundry patterns for the engine’s slide
bars. Photo courtesy Marv Hedberg.

Bolts provide a challenge Sorg, unless it has already been scrapped. “The piston and cyl-
As he started cleaning threads on bolts, Marv was sur- inder with this engine were somewhat greasy,” he says, “not
prised to discover that the engine’s bolt threads were totally rusty as shown in original (1985-vintage) photo.”
different from anything considered standard today. “Every In short, no one knows how many Sorg engines were built,
bolt on it was 3/8-20 threads,” he says. “Modern threads are but Marv knows this much: It’s one of a kind. “I’ve never seen
3/8-24 or -16.” any other engine with a similar design. It’s definitely the most
In the early 1900s, there were no formally established stan- unusual engine I’ve ever had my hands on,” he says. “It was
dards for bolt threads (such standards were developed in the a challenge but it was fun.” FC
mid-1920s). “A lot of the bolts on early gas engines have a 1/2-
12 thread,” he says. “The modern standard is 1/2-13, and they For more information:
do not interchange.”
Eventually, he found 3/8-20 nuts in the U.K., and he located Marv Hedberg, marvhed@gmail.com.
Michigan
a specialty supplier that had the right tap-and-die to use in
making studs. Ed Laginess, phone: (734) 755-3609;
email: pludge@sbcglobal.net; website: Carleton
✭
A most unusual engine www.edsoldiron.net.
During the 2021 auction, the Sorg was said to have been one
of a pair long stationed at a hardware store’s workbench. At To see a video of the Sorg running, visit
some point, the hardware business was sold to a cabinet shop farmcollector.com/sorg-slow. Minnesota
owner. One of the two engines went to an engine collector
who was a friend of the cabinet shop owner. “He never knew Leslie C. McManus is the senior editor of ✭
what it was,” Marv says. “And nobody knew what happened Farm Collector. Contact her at Lmcmanus@ Sauk
to the other engine.” ogdenpubs.com. Rapids
Marv remains skeptical about the existence of that second

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 Tales from Wales
Josephine Roberts
A Lasting
JO ROBERTS TAKES A LOOK AT BRITISH FARMING DURING WORLD WAR II
P
icture the scene: It is rural Britain
and we are in the midst of World
War II. All of our healthy male
workforce is away, fighting in
the war in France, and there simply aren’t
enough people to run our farms. Farming is
more important than ever as our nation is
beginning to run out of food, and very little
can be shipped in due to blockades.
Women have been asked to volunteer for the Women’s
Land Army and leave the cities to come to work on our
farms. These women become known as “Land Girls,” and
their work is now recognised as being instrumental in
keeping Britain fed during wartime.
There is a sense of chaos in the farming community:
Most of these young female recruits come from cities and
they haven’t got much of a clue about farming – and their
training is largely inadequate, because you simply can’t
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teach a person every aspect of farming in just a couple of
weeks of training.
Add to this chaos the pressure from the government to
produce more crops. Britain was heavily reliant on imported
food and we were barely receiving any food from overseas
as the German U-boats were patrolling the seas, and farmers
were being forced to plough up more and more land to grow
crops to feed our hungry nation. Food was rationed, but to
some extent, rural folks were luckier as it was easier for them
to obtain butter, milk and meat from their neighbours, even
if some of these purchases weren’t strictly legal.
I recall one elderly gent (who was a schoolboy during the
war) telling me how he would take their homemade butter
to school with him to pass onto another child, who would
hand it onto his mother. The next day, something else, like
a couple of pork chops, might be handed over as payment.
That is how a lot of rural people managed to make ends
meet during wartime.
Migration of children to the country
Another big change in the rural scene was the arrival of
child refugees coming from the cities to escape the Blitz. Our
large towns were being heavily bombed and it was generally
agreed that urban areas were too dangerous for anyone who
didn’t have to be there.
Wealthier families escaped together to the country, but
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most people felt that they had little choice but to hand their
children over to a volunteer at a train station. They would be
transported to the countryside, to families who had agreed
to take them in. Many of these child refugees were as young
as 5 years of age, and the people who they were to live with
for the foreseeable future were complete strangers.
No one was forced to send their children to the country-
side, but the cities were dangerous and the schools were
mostly closed. The need for safety had to override any other
emotions. It was heart-breaking for parents saying goodbye
to their children at these railway stations, not knowing who
was going to be taking care of them, or how long they would
be gone.
And it wasn’t always easy for the rural people who took
these children in. Some of the children were deeply un-
happy and found rural life, away from everyone and every-
thing familiar, very difficult.
Once when I was living at an old farmhouse in West
Wales, an elderly gentleman turned up in the yard. It turned
out that he had been evacuated from Liverpool as a boy of
7 to this very farm. He was fascinated to look around the
place, and it brought back many memories for him, but he
had tears in his eyes when he told me how frightening it was
that first night in the dark old farmhouse, with unfamiliar
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adults who spoke only in Welsh, a language he had never
heard before.
For Land Girls and city kids,
rural Britain was a strange new world
Compared to life in the cities, things were still very
primitive in the countryside. There was usually no elec-
tricity or running water, food was cooked on fires, and
the outdoor work was hard and unfamiliar. The transition
was difficult for many, not only the child refugees, but
also the Land Girls.
Some Land Girls thrived in the fresh air, the physical work
suited them, and many remember it as the happiest time in
their lives. For women it truly was a liberating time, as fi-
nally they were given a chance to prove themselves, to wear
trousers, to get their hands dirty, and to do their bit for the
war effort. It was the first time that many people – men and
women – realised that, with the right training, women were
capable of much more than just domestic duties.
Some Land Girls went on to marry rural men and farmers,
and never went back to city life, but generally in World War
II there was rather a lack of young male company as most fit
young men were away fighting in the war.
1. Land Army women picking peas at a farm in
2 England during the war, when we were des-
perately short of workers. Photo courtesy of The
Express and Star and The Women’s Land Army
Tribute website.
2. A David Brown VAK 1 tractor built in Yorkshire,
England in 1940. The beautiful but rather easily
damaged cast iron barred grille was only seen on
the earlier David Brown VAK 1. By late 1941, a
bullet hole-style grille became commonplace.
3. By far the most commonplace tractor on
British farms before, during and after World War
II was the Fordson Model N. This example was
built in 1933 in Dagenham, England. Early Ford-
son N tractors were blue, but the colour scheme
later changed to orange, and finally green. Photo
courtesy of Barlett’s of Winchester.
4. David Brown also supplied aircraft tug tractors
for use on military bases. Some of these tractors
were converted for threshing and winching ap-
plications after the war.
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Iconic tractors of the war years
The most memorable tractor of World War II is without
doubt the Fordson Model N. Fordson tractors were the first
mass-produced, affordable tractors to be built in the U.K.,
and they were extremely commonplace on farms through-
out Britain. Built in Dagenham, Essex, the Fordson N tractor
was a key player in the gradual shift from horse power to
mechanisation on many farms.
Larger farms had begun using tractors decades earlier, but
poorer farmers and those who were raising sheep and cattle,
rather than growing crops, were often still using horses for
farm work throughout the war years and beyond. Ford was
not the market leader in the U.S., but in Britain at the time,
Fordson tractors were hugely popular and they were sold in
vast numbers.
VAK 1 launch almost immediately
derailed by declaration of war
There were of course other tractors being made in Britain
at the time, like the David Brown VAK 1 built in Yorkshire,
England. The David Brown VAK 1 was introduced to the
world at the Royal Agricultural Show in Windsor Great Park
in July 1939, and by September of that year, World War II
had broken out. The David Brown company had been in-
volved in production of tank transmissions prior to the war.
Once war broke out, they were again required to focus their
attention on essential war time work.
From 1940 to 1945, David Brown produced 10,000 tank
transmissions and some 6,000 hydraulic pumps for aircraft.
They were also required to produce a heavy-duty industrial
tractor for towing aircraft on military bases, tractors that
went on to be known as airport tugs, and this war-related
work restricted the number of farm tractors that they were
able to produce.
There was also a shortage of raw materials during the
war years, so much so that any metal railings which were
not being used to protect fruit, vegetables or grains were
removed by the authorities and melted down to make mu-
nitions. Still today, when you walk around old British city
streets, you will see the marks along the tops of walls and
on the sides of gardens where railings have been sawn off
and removed during wartime.
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Fighting an uphill battle
Despite the rather unfortunate timing of having intro-
duced their tractor right at the beginning of World War II,
the David Brown VAK 1 continued to be produced right up
until 1945. These striking red tractors were good, reliable
workhorses, but they were produced in far fewer numbers
than the Fordson.
This was largely because of David Brown’s commitments
to produce tractors and gear systems for military use, but
also because Ford was a well-known and trusted manufac-
turer of motor vehicles and tractors, whereas David Brown
was a relative newcomer on the tractor scene.
David Brown had already co-produced the Ferguson-
Brown tractor, a joint project with Harry Ferguson, but the
company was not as well-established in the tractor scene
as Ford was, and although David Brown’s roots go back to
1860, its work had always been more “behind the scenes,”
producing gears and gear systems for a variety of industrial
applications.
Hampered by war-time production,
VAK 1 built in low numbers
The VAK 1 was David Brown’s first solo foray into the trac-
tor market, and wartime Britain probably wasn’t the best time
to market a brand new tractor, especially one that appeared so
different from those that everyone was familiar with.
The David Brown VAK 1 was unique looking. It was bright
red and it had a curved wrap-around fairing that both of-
fered wind protection for the driver’s hands and gave the
tractor a stylish, eye-catching shape. The David Brown VAK
1 even sounded different: The overhead valve, 4-cylinder
engine had a different roar to it.
It took a brave sort of buyer to choose one of these unusu-
al looking tractors over the reassuringly familiar Fordson N.
But with their 3-point linkage system and PTO as standard,
the VAK 1 was a modern and reliable tractor. Just over 5,000
VAK 1 tractors were built during World War II, and these rel-
atively low figures are due more to the company’s wartime
commitments than to any public lack of faith in the tractor
itself. The fact that the David Brown VAK 1 was never mass-
produced in the way that the Fordson was means that today
it is a very collectable tractor.
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5. This Minneapolis-Moline RTS was another
tractor that arrived in the U.K. as part of the
Lend-Lease Act.
6. During World War II, steam remained a vi-
able option, especially for powering threshing
machines. Built in 1914, this Aveling & Porter
traction engine worked its way through two
world wars.
7. A Welsh ploughman competing in a
ploughing match with his Fordson Model N
and trailer plough.
8. Fordson N mudguards were wide, as seen
here, early in the war years. Later, they were
made narrower in a bid to save steel, which was
in short supply. During the war, rubber tyres
could only be obtained by special licence.
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Lend-Lease Act delivers tractors
Another reason for the Fordson N tractor’s success in Brit-
ain was that because it was considerably more affordable
than other tractors, smaller companies could not begin to
compete with Ford. Other British-built tractors like Marshall
(whose Model M tractor was produced in 1938) were avail-
able, but with our engineering industry engaged in produc-
tion of military machinery for the war effort, no new ma-
chinery was being designed, and we were largely reliant on
old and outdated tractors.
It was a case of “all hands on deck.” Farmers dragged out
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their old and obsolete machines, relics that had been in
work during World War I, as anything that could be used to
plough or to power a belt was better than nothing. Under
the 1941 Lend-Lease Act, a supply of American tractors was
shipped to Britain to help boost our farming industry.
Some farm implements were also shipped over to the
U.K., but most of what arrived on our shores were tractors,
to aid with the cultivation and harvesting of crops. Trac-
tors like the Oliver 90, the Minneapolis-Moline UTS and the
McCormick-Deering W-4 were loaded onto ships and sent to
Britain. These cargo ships were easy targets for the German
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9. Some of the Lease-Lend trac-
tors that arrived in the U.K., like
this Case LA, for instance, were
considerably more powerful than
the tractors we were used to.
10. The licence plate on the VAK
1 shows that it was first registered
in the district of Meirioneddshire,
North Wales.
11. A Fordson Model N taking
part in a 24-hour ploughing
marathon for charity. During
World War II, it was felt that
orange was too visible from the
sky. The colour was soon changed
to green.
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U-boats, and great risks were taken to deliver these vital ma-
chines to our country.
Those tractors that did arrive safely were soon put to good
use, though one can only assume that these unfamiliar trac-
tors had a few British farmers scratching their heads. Most of
the Lend-Lease tractors were more powerful than our older
British-built machines, so the extra power came as a pleas-
ant surprise to many farmers.
But by far and wide the biggest sensation to arrive from
America was the Caterpillar tracked tractor. In the steep and
hilly regions of the British Isles there was a great deal of land
“going to waste,” as the government saw it, and the only
tractors capable of turning these slopes into arable land were
tracked machines like the Caterpillar D2. Rough ground,
steep slopes and damp terrain were easily conquered by a
crawler tractor, and these “go anywhere” machines enabled
farmers to cultivate land where no tractor had been before.
Steam engines come out of retirement
to boost farm production
When it came to threshing time, it was a common sight
to see a Fordson Model N, or indeed any tractor with a belt
pulley, powering the threshing machines. But it was by no
means unusual to see old steam traction engines powering
threshing machines too, as steam remained a viable option
for stationary farm work during the war years.
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Threshing was labour-intensive work and with the healthy
male workforce away fighting in the war it was left to women,
elderly men and prisoners of war to do this vital work. Ger-
man and Italian prisoners of war were put to work on farms
throughout Britain, and they assisted with work like threshing,
haymaking, wall building and vegetable harvests. Amazingly,
some of these prisoners opted to stay in Britain after the war
ended, and went on to marry local women. A small stone cattle
barn on the edge of my property was built by prisoners of war;
it remains in use as a shed today.
We are lucky in that we, as a country, still have many of
our old World War II tractors of both British and American
origin. These historic tractors are cherished by today’s col-
lectors and enthusiasts, because to be able to say that your
tractor played a part in helping to keep
Britain fed through World War II is truly
something special. These wartime tractors
that we depended on so heavily through
some of our darkest times will always have
a special place in our hearts. FC
North
Josephine Roberts lives on an old-fashioned Wales
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smallholding in Snowdonia, North Wales, Snowdonia
and has a passion for all things vintage. Great
Email her at josiewales2021@aol.com. Britain
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 COLD Cash REMEMBERING A UNIQUE CASH CROP
AT CRYSTAL LAKE IN SOUTHWEST IOWA
Article by Don McKinley with submitted photos
I
ce harvesting, which began in the
early 1800s, was very similar to any
crop harvest. Ice was a cash crop.
Weather was certainly a factor in the ice
harvest, because it determined the depth of
the ice, incoming storms, temperatures that
would hinder the harvest, and the timing of
assembling a team of men. The goal of the
ice harvest was to fill the ice house. In those
years when the weather did not cooperate,
the goal might not be reached.
The icebox was first patented in 1803. Its design was a
wooden box lined with tin or zinc and insulated with sawdust.
People were growing weary of salted, pickled, smoked, and
dried meat, as well as rancid butter, wilted vegetables and the
waste associated with throwing out leftovers. The temperance
movement of 1830-1865 advocated consumption of healthier
foods. Simultaneously, where natural ice was available, iceboxes
were quickly purchased and a new era evolved in households
across the nation. Thus, natural ice became an industry.
Spring-fed manmade lake
furnished ice for local community
In my small southwest Iowa home town of College Springs,
we were fortunate to have a 2-acre privately owned lake used
for recreational purposes during the summer, with skating
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and ice harvesting in the winter. In the early 1900s, Crystal
Lake was hollowed out of a valley between two tree-studded
low hills using teams of horses pulling slip-scrapers. Two large
springs fed the lake. The bottom was covered deeply with sand.
Later, a wall was built around it. Over time a bathhouse was
constructed, slides and diving boards installed, and the 30 sur-
rounding acres made suitable for picnicking and camping.
In the early 1900s, Crystal Lake was the largest body of water
within a 40-mile radius. It was estimated to hold more than
1.2 million gallons of water. On a beautiful summer Saturday
afternoon and evening in the 1930s, it was not unusual to find
250 cars parked near the lake with a large crowd in the water.
Ice skaters by the hundreds could be found enjoying the lake
in the winter. Lake social activities and camping were closed
temporarily in 1943 because of World War II.
Ice harvest at Crystal Lake began in the winter of 1918 and
continued each winter that the weather cooperated until the
late 1940s. In the fall of each year, the lake was drained and
refilled with pure spring water. Ice taken from the lake was said
to be as pure and good as artificial ice.
Everyone had cold feet
I clearly remember ice harvests held at the lake in late Janu-
ary and early February of the mid-1930s. When the ice thick-
ness reached 8-12 inches, word went out and men assembled
for the annual event.
The men gathered at daybreak on zero-degree mornings. A
roaring fire was bult on the shoreline for the men to enjoy
some degree of warmth. The harvest crew of at least 12 men
had on their warmest flannel mittens, black ear-flap caps,
heavy coats, and often two pairs of pants. High-top four-
buckle overshoes put on over leather-soled work shoes were
most commonly worn, although some wore socks and slippers
inside gum-boots. All brought ice cleats.
Before quitting for the day, everyone complained about
cold feet. By the way, if the temperature rose above 32 de-
grees during the day, work was halted because the ice became
too slippery.
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Using pike poles to guide blocks of ice at Crystal lake.
Left page: Scraping snow from
the surface of the ice. Images from
Scribner’s Monthly, August 1875.
Bottom left: In the summer, Crys-
tal Lake was an idyllic scene.
Bottom right: A diving tower at
the lake was a popular summer
attraction.
Specialized tools and a time-proven system
Equipment necessary for the harvest included an ice plow or
marker (one was patented in 1827), ice saws, ice hooks (some-
times called float-hooks or pike-poles), breaker bars, ice picks
of various sizes, and ice tongs. This equipment was provided
by the owner of the lake.
If the ice was covered by snow or sleet, it had to be shov-
eled off. Sometimes it took more time to remove the snow
than it did to harvest the ice. A calm, well-broke horse shod
with ice shoes (sharp cleats on their iron shoes) pulled the ice
plow. Plowing the grid was a two-man operation. One man
led the horse and another guided the plow in one direction.
Then, horse and plow were drawn crossways with the resulting
grooves forming an outline of a block of ice measuring 18 x
36 inches. As I remember, such a block would weigh well over
100 pounds.
Once the plowing was finished, men used ice saws and
breaker bars to create a narrow channel along one side of the
plowed area. The channel was then used to push floating ice
toward the shore. An inclined conveyor was pre-positioned
from the water’s edge up and into a huge icehouse located near-
by. Occasionally someone would ignore safety logic, fall into the
frigid water, and of course was taken to the fire to dry out.
All day long, men broke off cakes of ice with breaker bars
and large ice picks. They pushed and pulled the blocks along
the open channel with pike poles to the conveyor, where a
horse and a system of rope and pullies moved the cakes of ice
up and into the ice house. Upon arrival there, the ice cakes
were aligned and insulated with sawdust. Each block of ice had
to be separated on all sides by sawdust or the blocks would fuse
together. The ice harvest lasted only a few days.
The thick walls of the ice house and the sawdust used in
packing insulated the tons of ice blocks very well. In the sum-
mer, local residents came to the ice house when they needed
ice. The cakes were freed from the insulation and then slid
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In this photo from a Crystal Lake ice harvest, men guide the
blocks of ice through an open channel leading to an inclined
conveyor.
down a chute to a platform where they were washed and
chipped to the size requested.
I don’t know how much a consumer paid for a 100-pound
block of natural ice in the late 1930s, but I would guess 25
cents. I remember taking many trips to the ice house with my
dad. Mother told him how much to buy and he would wrap it
in a clean gunny sack for the trip home to our farm.
Electricity put an end to the ice harvest
Tons of ice were used during the summer in iceboxes in our
small town and rural community. It was also used in ice cream
freezers as well as to cool drinks at the supper table, something
we all enjoyed after a hot day spent working in the fields.
The natural ice industry lasted for several decades, but by
the early 1940s refrigeration was readily available. In 1921,
5,000 household refrigerators were manufactured in the U.S.
By 1937, that number had risen to six million. Electricity had
come to rural towns and farms. The ice harvest industry
quickly faded away.
More than once I tried to play hooky from school so I could
go down to the lake and watch the harvest. It was exciting to
hear the men joshing each other and playing pranks to take
their minds off the cold and boring work. But Mother, Dad and
the school were consistently unbendable! FC
Retired school principal Don McKinley
grew up on a farm in southwest Iowa. In
writing this article, he was assisted by his Iowa
daughter Connie Palmer. He has created a College
museum of 1930s vintage farm collectibles at ✭ Springs
his home in Quincy, Illinois. Contact him at
1336 Boy Scout Rd., Quincy, IL 62305; email:
deerroad@adams.net. Visit his Facebook page
at 1930’s Ag Museum.
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DIRT? THE

BUCOLIC SCENES OF FARM

LIFE RARELY, IF EVER, SHOW
THE FARMER’S NEMESIS:
DUST AND DIRT

By Clell G. Ballard

D
o you remember the famous
television commercial
where an elderly woman
confronted a fast food outlet
with the strident question, “Where’s the
beef?” That commercial was so popular
that her question became part of the
American lexicon. The great thing about
it is the last word in the question can be
(and has been) changed to thousands
of different things, depending on who
was repeating the challenge. The basic
concept remained the same: Something
important was lacking.

Note the third word in the title of this article. It is my

assertion that 99.9 percent of all photos of farming opera-
tions lack any indication of the one element every farmer
confronts daily on a personal basis: airborne dirt. This
statement excludes pictures of the ground itself and the
myriad photos of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. I’m refer-
ring to that which surrounds most farming operations

32 September 2021 Farm Collector

and which invariably ends up on farmers and their clothes.
Farming is a dirty occupation today and was a hundred
times dirtier in the past.
In doing research for this article, I have viewed farm pub-
lications from every decade, starting with the 1920s, when
tractors came into play in a big way. Animal farming was
dirty in a different way. Activities supporting field work
were almost as dirty as the field work itself. When tractors
came along, the operator who started the day clean often
ended the day almost as dirty as it was possible to be. It had
to do with airborne dirt in the form of all-pervasive dust.
Surprisingly, pictures rarely convey those dusty conditions.
Let it be stated that there was a reason for that. Every
photograph was designed to convey some image and any-
thing that blurred that image was avoided. Airborne dirt
(dust and anything else that could be carried by the wind)
would detract from or camouflage details. So, pristine
tractors, farm equipment, farm operations, farmers and
farm employees are shown. Farming was portrayed as an
idyllic activity.
It is amazing that reality is so much different from those
images. Since tilling the soil is the essence of farming, that
soil in all its ramifications permeates everything in a per-
son’s life. Men traditionally spent most of their time out-
side, cultivating crops and taking care of livestock. Women,
on the other hand, spent all of their time feeding the fam-
ily and trying to keep things clean. It was a never-ending
battle. If a degree of success was evident at the end of the
day, it was a sure thing that the anti-dirt fight would be
revisited the next day.
Fighting an inevitable battle
For the person who has never experienced farm life, an
explanation is necessary. Farm people are just as concerned
about cleanliness as are city folks. For decades, the problem
has been what they face on a regular basis. It is impossible
to avoid dirt and dirty conditions when doing farm work.
Above: In this 1930s-era photo of a crawler with cab, where’s the dirt?
Top left: In this photo taken in the 1940s, where’s the dirt? It is on our uncle’s face, having
driven a Caterpillar all day. He is shown here giving his nephews a ride.
Left: In this circa 1920s photo, where’s the dirt?
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Part of that is because farming is done outside where condi-
tions cannot be controlled.
Another feature of farming is work. Actual physical effort
is required to accomplish a task. This is not to dismiss in-
tellectual effort that often tires a person about the same.
It is just that actual body movement exposes one to many
things that are not squeaky clean. For example, this au-
thor sweats heavily when doing hard physical work. After
a short period of time shoveling grain from a truck into a
grain bin, my shirt is sopping wet. Every bit of chaff and
dirt surrounding the effort ends up being part of my attire.
That doesn’t happen in an office cubicle.
The famous World War I song “How ya gonna keep ’em
down on the farm after they’ve seen Paree?” hints at the
likely reluctance of young men from rural backgrounds to
return to the dirt and labor of early 20th century American
farms. For the first time, many of them learned of city life
with paved roads, occupations that didn’t require physical
exertion and a lifestyle that didn’t include dust blowing
down the streets. The agricultural situation got somewhat
better as time went by, but until the late 20th century, much
of farming still consisted of dirt and drudgery. Interestingly,
modern farming is almost light years different than earlier
decades but one thing remains: Dealing with dust and dirt.
Fantastic new equipment almost isolates the operator
from personally dealing with dirt. A person could wear a
white shirt and tie to work every morning when operating
some of today’s equipment and go home unsoiled. There
are occasional break-downs and adjustments that need to
be made, but for all practical purposes, if a farm has state-
of-the-art equipment, farmers conducting field work only
occasionally confront dust and dirt.
Remembering a uniquely dirty day
Back to the question of “Where’s the Dirt?” in farm pho-
tographs. Having spent a half century doing farm work dur-
ing the era when almost every farm activity was dirty to
September 2021 33
 Left: Hauling hay on a single-lane farm road in dust so thick that
only half of the truck is visible.
Above: This photo (dating to the 1960s) is the only one
I took that shows the cloud of dirt surrounding a farm
operation. The trash (dirt, chaff, hay leaves and pieces of
hay stems) billowing out of the hay baler flew right in the
face of either the tractor driver or the person piling the
bales when going from east to west. Daily west winds of
15 to 30mph made those mile-long stretches so unbear-
able that the person piling bales would walk out to the
side until a bale came out that needed to be stacked. The
tractor driver had no choice but “to eat it”!
Above: The author (on the left) worked on the farm every
day, so his clothes probably weren’t too clean at the start
of the day. “My brothers,” he notes, “wanted to experi-
ence a day’s work on the farm. One lived in a nearby town
and the other was a resident of a Midwestern city. At
quitting time, as shown in this photo taken in the 1960s,
they exhibited the fact that clothes that were clean in the
morning certainly were not in the evening.”
34 September 2021
one degree or another, I have to confess that I too failed to
get photographs of what it was like back then. Although from
an early age I took thousands of pictures (and you had to be
dedicated to buy film, purchase expensive flash bulbs, and pay
for processing that by today’s standards seems exorbitant – in
the 1960s, $4.80 for eight black-and-white prints!) my farm
pictures do not show dust and dirt.
There are two reasons for that. First, since I was using a fairly
crude point-and-shoot camera, as a farm employee I couldn’t
take it with me to work. Only occasionally did I have my cam-
era with me and when I did, I was strapped for time. Second,
and most importantly, airborne dust and dirt were so much a
part of our daily existence that it didn’t register as noteworthy.
My pictures are like almost all the others: dust- and dirt-free.
My early agricultural experiences involved crawler or track-
layer tractors. By their very nature, crawlers generated more
dirt and dust than wheel tractors did by a major degree. Even
when traveling straight forward, the tracks stirred up consider-
able dust and dirt. When turning, a routine function caused by
nearly constant course corrections, there’d be plenty of dust
and dirt, but sometimes the tracks produced what seemed like
a fountain of dirt.
I remember one noteworthy occasion when driving a D4
Caterpillar pulling two 10-foot tandem discs on a field recently
plowed with a moldboard plow. It was an extremely hot day
with no wind. On the first pass around the field, one had to be
extremely careful not to hit the fence. The dust was so thick it
was impossible to see. I had to stop about every 100 yards to
allow the dust to clear a little. Breathing through my mouth,
I could taste the dust on my teeth. The dust settled on my
glasses and slid down to the bottom of the lens. On my many
stops, I removed my glasses and shook them so I could see.
Hour after hour the struggle went on. At quitting time, I
had muddy rings around my nostrils and mouth. Naturally
my clothes were saturated and perspiration caused most of my
body to be covered with dirt. Even after a shower I felt gritty.
In the morning, I had to physically pull my eyelids apart with
my fingers as they were nearly sealed shut from the previ-
ous day’s dust. The next day, there was a slight breeze. Things
were a little better but still very dirty, particularly going with
the wind.
A careful distinction
One last thing needs mentioning. As strange as it may seem,
there is “clean dirt” and “dirty dirt.” Almost exclusively, the
dirt farmers deal with is “clean dirt.” Although there is no es-
tablished definition, “clean dirt” is described as that which set-
tles on an object and can be brushed off. A synonym for “dirty
dirt” might be “filth.” “Dirty dirt” leaves a mess. With the pos-
sible exception of dealing with animals, farmers’ lives may not
be idyllic but most would confess that the dirt they deal with is
just one part of the wonderful life they have chosen. FC
A retired high school history teacher, Clell G. Bal-
lard has worked on farms since he was in grade school,
including 53 summers spent working on his uncle’s dry-
land hay and grain ranch. He also is a dealer of World
War II era military vehicles and parts. Contact him at
(208) 764-2313 (and bear in mind the time difference
with Mountain Standard Time) or by email at ✭
cballard@northrim.net.
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 First Hand

PUTTING UP HAY
REMEMBERING THE OLD IRON
AND TEAMWORK THAT CAME
TOGETHER TO FILL THE MOW
By David Roy Hill

I
grew up on a small dairy farm here
in northern Wisconsin. We called it a
“60 50” farm because although we did
have some modern things, we still did
1 2
some things the old way, and hay was one
of them.
3
We put up our hay loose. For years, we used a horse mower
pulled behind the tractor to cut the hay. We used a side-
delivery rake to gather it and put it in windrows. Then we’d
hook up the wagon and then the hay loader. This was simi-
lar to a baler but only to pick up the hay and move it up and
onto the wagon. One of us would be on the wagon to spread
out the hay. Once it was loaded came the next part.
In the barn mow, a track ran the length of the barn. A
carriage rode on this track. A 1-inch rope was threaded in it
and around a pulley with a hook. The pulley tripped catches
to release the carriage so it could move to the other end.
This rope was also called the “big rope.” It went out and
down the front of the barn to another pulley that was an-
chored in concrete, and from there to the tractor.
The loaded hay would be brought close to the back of the 1. Jamming the hayfork into a pile of hay, which was then
barn. A smaller rope (or trip rope) would be tossed out the lifted to the mow by a hay carrier. Photos courtesy Library of
hay door onto the wagon. The man on the wagon would Congress.
lead the trip rope to pull back the carriage in which the hay
fork (or harpoon fork) was running from the pulley wheel 2. In this 1941 photo, hay is lifted to the mow using a double
into the carriage. Pulling it back brought the carriage into harpoon-style hayfork.
catches that released the pulley so the fork could be pulled
down to the hay by the trip rope. 3. The whole family pitched in when it was time to put up hay.
Then the fork would be stuck into the hay. Two small In this circa 1941 photo, a hay loader was used to pick up hay
arms would be raised and locked into place, causing a small and put it onto a wagon.
finger to come out of the fork to hold the hay. Then the
signal would be given.
✭
The other end of the big rope would be hooked to the trac- to unload. Sometimes the amount of hay
tor and the tractor would start the pull. They’d raise the fork the fork would take made us wonder if it Ashland
full of hay up to the carriage, hit the catches, and release the would go in. The old barn would creak
carriage to move into the mow with the hay. The man in the and groan at it and with a big whoosh, it Wisconsin
mow would holler where he wanted it and the man on the would come in. To be honest, I sure do miss
wagon would pull on the trip rope. This caused the small all the smells that came with haying time. FC
arm to come down and the hay would drop. Then the whole
thing would be repeated until the wagon was unloaded. David Roy Hill lives in Ashland, Wisconsin.
For us, usually about three forkfuls is all it would take

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Steam Row at the Nowthen Threshing Show.
NOWTHEN THRESHING SHOW
MARKS MILESTONE BY
FEATURING A PROUD TRADITION
By Anne Zimmerman
I
n 1971, two neighbors living in Rogers,
Minnesota, rescued a thresher in the path of
bulldozers working on Interstate 94. Resting
in the same place for 22 years, the thresher
was locked in place by trees growing through its
steel wheels. For many, it would have been an
inconvenience with a direct path to the junkyard.
Instead, Walter Dehn, Adrian Milless and John
Altenweg decided to restore the piece.
One month later, the rescue mission-turned-restoration project be-
came the seed of a new threshing show when the trio held the first
Rogers Threshing Show on Walter Dehn’s farm with 80 attendees.
Fifty years later, despite changes and challenges, the show is still
going strong.
38 September 2021
WHY IS IT CALLED
NOWTHEN?
When Jim Hare, the first postmaster of Burns
Township, contacted the U.S. Postal Service
to request a post office in Burns Township,
Minnesota, his request was denied because a
township in another county had already been
issued the name.
Responding to a request for another name,
Hare offered several alternatives. In closing his
letter, he ended with the word “nowthen” and
his signature. Unaware of the fact that Hare
routinely started and ended every sentence
with that word, postal authorities apparently
thought it was a worthy name for the new
post office and formalized the name as the
Nowthen Post Office.
In 1894, the Nowthen Post Office was
closed, but local residents continued to refer to
the area as Nowthen. On Dec. 12, 2007, Burns
Township filed a petition with the Office of
Administrative Hearings, Municipal Boundary
Adjustments, requesting incorporation of
Burns Township as the City of Nowthen.
“Nowthen,” notes the city’s website, “that’s
our story.”
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 Strength in numbers
On April 23, 1971, Ralph Altenweg announced the
first-ever meeting of the Anoka Engine Club on April
23, 1971. Seventeen members joined that night. During
the coming years, Anoka Engine Club participated in pa-
rades, county fairs, nursing home events and threshing
shows. By 1975, membership had grown to 95.
Later that year, Walter Dehn invited the club to dis-
play their collections at his show in 1972. By 1974, the
Rogers Threshing Show had grown to 5,000 attendees
and the Anoka Engine Club was fully invested in making
the show an annual success.
The Anoka Engine Club changed its name in 1987 to
the Rogers Pioneer Power Association (RPPA). The Rogers
Threshing Show continued at Walter Dehn’s farm until
Walter’s death in 1992. Having only leased the property,
the RPPA was confronted with its greatest challenge yet.
Ultimately, the RPPA purchased a site for permanent
grounds. Between the 1993 and 1994 Rogers threshing
shows, all of the buildings and equipment were moved
to the new site in Nowthen 14 miles northeast of Rogers.

Preserving the past for the future

In 1997, the organization again changed its name to
the Nowthen Historical Power Association (NHPA) and
renamed the show the Nowthen Threshing Show. Over
the past five decades, NHPA membership has grown
and the group has rescued many old buildings, engines,
cars, trucks and tractors, bringing them to the show in
Nowthen.
Members have taught the next generation how to
make egg coffee, use a wood stove, quilt, saw logs, start
massive engines, thresh, blacksmith and use a printing press. Visitors can
explore an old one-room schoolhouse. Live music is often heard from the
restored church. A gas station, print shop,
general store, depot, log house and barn have
been relocated to the grounds, and a perma-
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Through partnerships with like-minded or-
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than the organization could do alone. The
Guild of Metalsmiths conducts daily dem-
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helps staff and run the General Store, sharing
history of Anoka County.
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vendors. And connections with other shows
around the state have created partnerships for
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The Nowthen Threshing Show’s feature in 2020 was intended to celebrate
the event’s 50-year history. Rescheduled by the pandemic, the 50th anniversary
Nowthen Threshing Show is set for August 20-22, 2021. FC

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✭
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Detail of a
nicely aged
FANCY
tree I finished LOWLY SPADE DISC PRESERVED
cutting out
prior to get- FOR POSTERITY AT LITTLE
ting the unit
operational. VILLAGE FARM
Article and photos by Jim Lacey

T
hirty-odd years ago, Fern
Nemmer’s son, Tom, bought the
acreage on Joe Merges’ farm.
Joe had lived there, as a bachelor,
caring for his mother. We were “gathering”
pieces for the museum back then and Fern
mentioned a strange-looking disc-like affair,
View of the disc’s greasing arrangement and hold-down for half-buried in the grove, that we could have if
grease pipe and standard as well.
we were interested.

I went down with a chainsaw, cut off both sides of a 10-inch

Looking at the unit from the back side, discs in evidence, as
well as grease cups.
tree and brought the piece home, storing it in our grove where
it was until recently.
Apparently, a spade disc such as this one did not enjoy
much favor. The only other mention as such is in C.H. Wen-
del’s Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements and Antiques.
An entry on Page 109 shows a similar unit built by D.S. Mor-
gan & Co.
This one has been converted to tractor power as evidenced
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for change of angle, 8 feet being about what it is. This one
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clamping the pipe into place. It’s definitely not fancy. The
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All in all, it’s a neat find for our museum, as it is the only one
I have ever seen in real life. We parked it on rocks along one
wall of our 16-sided building. FC

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37, 29th Annual Tired Iron of the Ozarks Fall
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Missouri
Missouri River Valley Steam Engine Assn. 58th An-
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Kansas
Sept. 25th-26th, 2021: Meriden Fall Festival &
Swap Meet Show. Meriden, KS. Meriden Antique
Engine & Threshers Association, 8275 K-4 High-
way. Sorghum,
apple butter & cider making, sawmilling, various
demonstrations, all building exhibits open, stock
garden tractor pull both days. Contact: Lisa Cain
785-501-5547 or visit: www.meridenthreshers.org
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Nebraska • • • • • 63ND ANNIVERSARY • • • • •
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
The 39th Annual OLD TRUSTY ANTIQUE EN-
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pulls, threshing, corn shelling, ensilage cut- EDDY COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS
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antique autos & trucks. Kids pedal pulls, Mu-
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music and BBQs. Join Friday's tractor drive or sawmill, blacksmithing, tractor pull,
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 BOOKS ENGINES FOR SALE

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TRACTOR & COLLECTIBLES
AUCTION
“The Jack Mader Collection” - Including Numerous Restored Parade
Ready IH Tractors, Other Tractors & Related Items,
A Beautiful 1955 Chev. Bel-Aire 4 Door Hardtop w/Complete Off
Frame Restoration & 350 V-8 Engine, Original 1955 Chev. Bel Aire
2 Door Hardtop w/Continental Kit- 98,304 Miles, Cub Cadet Garden
Tractors, Peddle Tractors, Large Toy Collection, Handguns, Rifles &
Shotguns, Restored Visible Gas Pump, Signs & Much More!

We will offer the following personal property at auction at the

shop/storage facility next to “Jack’s Service” at 1211 SW 1st St.,
Madison, SD; from Prostrollo’s Corner on Hwy. 34 in Madison, SD
- follow the bypass approx. 1 mile west; from the Jct. of Hwy. 34 &
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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Sale Time: 10:00 am
General Sale Order: Tools & Shop Items, Tractor Parts, Toys & Misc.
Live & Online Bidding via Proxibid beginning at 12:00 noon - Including
Peddle Tractors, Original Unrestored Tractors, Pristine Restored Tractor
Collection, 2- 1955 Chev. Bel Aire Vehicles - followed Live Only by
Firearms & Other Misc. Items.

AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Jack Mader was a well known mechanic for over 60
years in Madison, SD. Jack was a reowned Tractor Collector and was very well
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