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To: Snowshoe who wrote (22816)8/18/2002 2:54:57 AM
From: Joan Osland Graffius  Respond to of 74559
 
Snowshoe,

You are correct with the threshing machines, railroad and flour milling. If my memory serves me well we purchased a combine in 1940 or 1941. The labor with threshing machines was huge. We used to have at least 20 men working during harvest. The laundry and kitchen were going 14 hours a day during that period. They required beds and three serious meals and lunch in-between meals.

There was some grain moved to Minneapolis by OX cart from this area prior to Hill and his railroad.

Joan



To: Snowshoe who wrote (22816)8/18/2002 12:06:23 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 74559
 
Keep in mind that long before internal combustion tractors came along, farming was greatly advanced by other machinery

I am mindful of the history of the Industrial Revolution in farming, but those steam-powered babies were huge and comparatively expensive. Not being a farmer, to me, it's kinda like the difference between a locomotive and a Model A.


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