North Country At Work

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.

View of the Pleasant Valley Farm owned by Thomas and Catherine Rodger Allen (great grandparents of Malcolm McGregor, Allen Chase, Bob Decker, and others). 1910-1920 Hammond, NY.

Neighborhood friends and family came and helped to pour the foundation for a garage on the McGregor farm. 1960. 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 […]

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 […]

Allen and Malcolm McGregor hauling a load of loose hay with a team of horses on the McGregor farm. 1948. Hammond, NY. Photo donated by Jennifer McGregor.

Malcolm McGregor with his new Case tractor on the McGregor farm. 1948. Hammond, NY. Photo donated by Jennifer McGregor.