Grain thresher running in barn, powered by a three-horse power treadmill. Workers pictured next to the treadmill. Note the canopy on the treadmill to keep sun off horses. Circa 1890. Hammond, NY.
Pressing hay with Fred Rebscher’s hay press, on Calaboga Road in Hammond.Finished bale hangs on stillyard in foreground. The hay press was an early technique for compressing loose hay into bales. Circa 1910. Hammond, NY.
Sawing firewood with a steam engine at Robert Smith farm in Pleasant Valley. Bert Smith pictured on right. Site later covered by Route 12. Circa 1900-1910. Hammond, NY.
International 10 20 steel wheeled tractor pulling a corn binder behind it at edge of corn field. Harvesting corn in late summer. Circa 1930s. Hammond, NY.
Harvesting ice on Dark Island. Pictured is a ramp used to move ice into ice house. Circa 1910-1920. Hammond, NY.
Sturgeon taken from the St. Lawrence River by Lawrence Taylor. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s. Hammond, NY. Check out this North Country at Work story on one man’s job as a sturgeon fisher.
Last load of hay in 1920. Note metal-wheeled early tractor drawing hay wagon of loose hay. Hammond, NY.
Plowing the Savage farm with a walking plow on the River Road in the late 1940s. Behind the plow is John Savage; his son, Bill, is holding the horse. Photo: Michael Savage (Bill’s son). Hammond, NY.
Stump pulling was a spring chore in the early days of land clearing. The tough roots were impossible to burn so farmers pushed them into a fence formation and they would last many more years than an ordinary fence. The stump fence in this 1905 photograph was on the Peter R. Taylor farm in Pleasant […]
Stooking oats–bundling of oats set upright together to allow the grain to dry in the field before threshing (separating grain from chaff)–on the Demick farm, circa 1920s. Hammond, NY.
