This McCormick combine both harvests and threshes oats. Circa 1970-1980. Precise location unknown but somewhere in Jefferson County. Photo taken by Watertown Daily Times staff photographer.
Farmer driving along windrows with John Deere tractor attached to New Holland kicker baler throwing bales onto hay wagon. Two helpers are standing alongside tractor. Circa 1970-1980. Jefferson County. Photo taken by Watertown Daily Times staff photographer.
This woman is bagging oats being fed into bags from steam-powered threshing machine (view complete operation in related photos). Circa 1940-1950. Photo from Watertown Daily Times staff photographer.
Farmer shoveling coal into a steam traction engine being used to thresh oats. In related photos, this man and a woman are working the operation together. Circa 1940s-1950s. Near Watertown, NY. Photo taken by Watertown Daily Times staff photographer.
This steam powered threshing machine, with an engine that burned soft coal, is being used here to thresh oats–separating the chaff (stem and non-nutritional parts of the plant) from the actual seed or grain (oat). The woman near the John Deere tractor is filling bags with processed oats; the man is throwing bundles of oats […]
This steam powered threshing machine, with an engine that burned soft coal, was used to thresh oats (separate grain from chaff). This one is being operated by a man and woman: woman is near John Deere tractor filling bags with processed oats; man is feeding bundles of oats into the thresher. Circa 1940-1950. Watertown, NY […]
Young Bronze Beauties, a breed developed by Timmerman’s farm, being fattened for the Thanksgiving market. The birds are crowding around a range grain feeder. Circa 1950. Photo taken at Timmerman’s Farm in the Town of Orleans. LaFargeville, NY. Click here to read a North Country at Work story on a Lisbon girl who hid […]
Timmerman’s turkey farm was the largest–and last big turkey producer–in Northern New York. It went of business in the early 1980s. On the right, you can see the barn where baby turkeys were raised until they were old enough to be put outside. Circa 1950. Unknown workers. LaFargeville, NY. Check out our story on Heuvelton’s […]
Overhead shot of the Carelton Villa and Farm. 1914. Photographer: Alice Peebles Dungey. Donated by Gordon S. Dungey, Alice’s son.
Carleton Villa, also known as Wyckoff Villa, on Carleton Island in the Thousand Islands. This photo was taken by Alice Peebles Dungey. Her uncle, Clair Smith pictured here with a young calf, was a graduate of Cornell and was the manager of the Carleton Villa farm. Photo donated by Gordon S. Dungey, Alice’s son. 1914.
