Men draw a load of hay next to a haystack at the Ormiston Farm. A wooden platform has been added to the side of the stack so the hay can be pitched higher on the stack. The horses are wearing fly nets. Early 1900s. Hammond, NY.
Pressing hay at the Alex Wilson farm. Standing at the press on the platform is Milo G. King. Standing on ground, left to right, are Alex Wilson (with fork), Lewis King at scales, Gene Catlin, and Earl Wilson. Man on top of the press is unknown. The hay press was owned by Fred Rebscher of […]
Robert Rutherford and Daniel Stout with their threshing outfit. This early machine has a straw elevator rather than a blower. It is powered by a large traction steam engine. Two bags are attached to the grain chute on the right waiting to be filled with grain. Piles of straw surround the barn in the background. […]
Farm worker Bill Godwin (left, on tractor), Malcolm and Mark McGregor on the wagon hauling baled hay. 1958. Hammond, NY.
Farm worker Bill Godwin (right, on tractor) and Mark McGregor (left) hauling bales of hay with a John Deere tractor on the McGregor farm. July 1957. Hammond, NY.
A stationary threshing machine set up outside the McGregor barn. Bundles of oats are being fed into the thresher. Three neighboring families, the Barneys, Hunters, and Hollisters, shared the threshing machine. They went to each family’s farm to do the threshing and put it up in the barns. Circa 1951-1952. Hammond, NY. Photo donated by […]
A stationary threshing machine set up outside the McGregor barn. Bundles of oats are being fed into the thresher. The straw is being blown directly into the barn while the oats are bagged beside the second Ford tractor. Three neighboring families, the Barneys, Hunters, and Hollisters, shared the threshing machine. They went to each family’s […]
General field work at the Clarkson Estate, where Snell Athletic Field is today. Fall 1924. Potsdam, NY.
Herbert and Donald Thompson pose on top of the Thompson farm’s last load of hay. 1936. Osbornville in the Town of De Kalb, NY.
Aaron Hosmer and Clarence MacIntyre pose with the largest haystack ever built in the meadow on Huckleberry Mountain in the Town of Gouverneur. Loose hay was brought to the barn hay mow and lifted with a large claw that ran along track in the roof of the barn. Photograph by Herbert Thompson. Circa 1930. Huckleberry […]
