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. […]
Stewart Cuthbert and Allison Root headed to the field on a Massey Ferguson 1085 tractor. Around 1984. Hammond, NY.
Doug McDougall, Glen Allen, Charley Covell pose with buckboard and horse. A threshing machine is in background. Around 1910s. Hammond, NY.
Stewart Cuthbert on top of the “sheep chute,” an apparatus used to move and control sheep during de-worming and treating their feet for hoof rot. Ann Cuthbert in the foreground. 1958. Hammond, NY.
Andrew Cuthbert, age 5, on a Ford tractor outside the barn of the family farm. November 1961. Hammond, NY.
Stewart Cuthbert transplanting a maple tree using a tractor. 1957. Hammond, NY.
Stewart Cuthbert, washing the bulk tank (he had to do every other day). August 1970. Hammond, NY.
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 […]
