The genius of pioneer inventors can confound us. Countless contraptions that revolutionized farming in the 19th and early ...

Ervin Yoder owns a unique collection of antique and vintage farm pieces. Learn more about Yoder's rare antique assemblage.

Tractors are an important part of Modern Agriculture, and this man invented them. Learn about the inventor of the first tractor, John Froelich.

Introducing Britain’s “stopgap” tractor: the Fordson E27N. Learn about this sequel to the Fordson N and the nostalgia it ...

An early Farmall Regular row-crop tractor. For more than fifty years, the proud name “Farmall” stood for smooth, dependable row-crop tractors. IHC was the first tractor builder to develop a successful ...

Courtesy of W. J. Eshleman, 722 E. End Ave., Lancaster, Pa. 17602 The last Peerless Engine, Serial No. 18298 owned by Samuel G. Stoltzfus of White Horse, Pennsylvania ...

Salina, Kansas Straw racks in Red River Special steel separators with 15 bar cylinders, built prior to 1925, consisted of five shakers. The first four shakers were carried and driven by the Brady ...

BACK TO MY BOYHOOD days when I carried a Russell catalog while heading cows to the field and school, I read the pages with intense interest. The 6hp. intrigued me most and I longed for the chance to ...

Here is a picture of my engine and myself. It is a John Goodison. These last models were built in 1926. Style No. 2606. 10x10 cyl. I am in the Western Ontario Steam Threshing Reunion held here at ...

In the September-October issue, Mr. J. F. Percival of Spokane, Washington, gave a very comprehensive history of the grain binder, to which I would like to add a few facts. Cyrus H. McCormick invented ...

A ride around the Suffolk Lanes in a LIFU steam car. Mrs. R.G. Pratt as co-driver with the former owner, Mr. McHodson, as driver. The turn of the century “Lifu” or “House” steam car, as it was ...

THERE WAS AT LEAST one incident, brought about by a somewhat peculiar, if not a comic cicumstance whereby, back in the oncoming era of gas power, that gas tractors gave way, for a time to steam. This ...