North Country At Work

Team of horses drawing manure spreader. Circa 1920s-30s. Philadelphia, NY area.

Donald and “Doll” (the horses) drawing milk cans to a Philadelphia cheese factory, driven by unidentified man. 1930. Philadelphia, NY.   Check out our series on the changes in dairy transportation here.

Woman with her chicken flock. Tending the chicken flock was traditionally women’s and children’s work on the farm. Circa 1920s. Philadelphia, NY area.

Woman driving wooden wheeled dump rake.Horse is wearing fly net to keep flies off as it worked. Circa 1920s. Philadelphia, NY area. Note windrow (you can see it through spokes of wheel). After dump raking, hay would either be picked up with a hayloader and put on wagons for off-loading in a hay mow, or […]

Unidentified farmers with child and horse-drawn mowing machine. Circa 1920s. Philadelphia, NY area.

Father Fults tills with a two-horse hitch pulling drag harrow on his farm outside Philadelphia. June 1920. Philadelphia, NY.

Unidentified family standing in front of G.A. Rebyor & Son International Harvester Power Farm Equipment truck. Circa 1915. Philadelphia, NY.

Exterior shot of Pickens Hall during Heuvelton’s Turkey Day. Pickens Hall was built in 1858 by John Pickens, Sr. The stone came from the Ridge Hill Quarry, located between Heuvelton and Ogdensburg. 1898. Heuvelton, NY. Listen to the audio clip for more on Turkey Day; you can read the North Country at Work story with […]

Horse drawn grain binder in transport position. Binders would be moved from farm to farm and used to bind grain, so that each individual farmer need not own one. Dump rake on fence. Circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.

James Chambers (left) and William Green milking cows at Greenhill Dairy Farm at Northrups Corners. Circa 1940s. Heuvelton, NY. Related story here; the audio clip is about Heuvelton’s dairying history, and is from Dave Kingsley.