North Country At Work

Three-horse hitch grain binder, early 1930s, in Dexter NY.

Team of horses drawing manure spreader. Circa 1920s-30s. Philadelphia, NY area.

Woman with her chicken flock. Tending the chicken flock was traditionally women’s and children’s work on the farm. Circa 1920s. Philadelphia, NY area.

Woman driving wooden wheeled dump rake.Horse is wearing fly net to keep flies off as it worked. Circa 1920s. Philadelphia, NY area. Note windrow (you can see it through spokes of wheel). After dump raking, hay would either be picked up with a hayloader and put on wagons for off-loading in a hay mow, or […]

Unidentified farmers with child and horse-drawn mowing machine. Circa 1920s. Philadelphia, NY area.

Father Fults tills with a two-horse hitch pulling drag harrow on his farm outside Philadelphia. June 1920. Philadelphia, NY.

Horse drawn grain binder in transport position. Binders would be moved from farm to farm and used to bind grain, so that each individual farmer need not own one. Dump rake on fence. Circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.

James Chambers (left) and William Green milking cows at Greenhill Dairy Farm at Northrups Corners. Circa 1940s. Heuvelton, NY. Related story here; the audio clip is about Heuvelton’s dairying history, and is from Dave Kingsley.

Pictured is a threshing machine for oats. An unidentified man feeds oats in at one side, the finished grain is deposited into a wheel barrow, and is finally moved via elevator into the building on the right. August, 1962. Heuvelton, NY.

Unidentified man harvesting oats with a grain binder. August, 1962. Heuvelton, NY.