Published In
Ann Arbor News, August 31, 1938
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OLD STYLE REAPER PREFERRED: Oscar Weber, whose farm is on M-11 just east of Bridgewater, still likes the self-raking reaper that was "the latest thing" about 75 years ago. John Monahan is shown operating the old-style reaper, a Champion model, in field of cloverseed on the Weber farm. This machine is about 67 years old.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, October 12, 1938
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UNUSUAL THRESHING OPERATION: This picture shows a threshing outfit that is seldom used in Washtenaw county or vicinity. It was taken on the Clayton Carpenter farm on Chilson Rd., three miles north of Lakeland, where nine acres of cucumbers were ground up for seed last week. The cucumbers are being shoveled into a hopper by Willard Wiltse, a neighboring farmer. The seed and juices are sifted out in the revolving wire cage, falling into a moat lined with gunny sacking, and the residue is being shoveled away by Mr. Carpenter. The horse at the right is operating a treadmill, which turns the grinder and sifter.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, November 11, 1936
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CORN SHREDDING TIME: Above is shown a group on the Manuel Aprill farm, Scio Church Rd., operating a corn shredder. Left to right they are: Mark Sweetland, Oscar Aprill, Manuel Aprill and Edward Aprill.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, February 2, 1949
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LOADED FOR A KILLING--WEEDS, THAT IS: With two 500-gallon drums of a special chemical-and-water solution and a special spraying attachment the tractor shown above is all ready to kill off noxious weeds in 20 acres of crop land. Edgar P. "Dutch" Widmyer of Dexter is at the wheel and Ralph Jenkins, also of Dexter and local distributor of this Sherwin-Williams tractor-attachment, is standing at his side. The weed-killing attachment delivers a spray 18 feet wide. One day's production can be 100 acres.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, April 13, 1949
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POWER FOR GANG PLOWING: Newcomer in the field of mechanization for Washtenaw county farms is this huge Massey-Harris tractor, shown pulling a three-plow unit on the Warren Murdoch farm at 7724 Walsh Rd., four miles north of Dexter. This machine is one of the largest, if not the largest, tractors to be introduced in the county, according to Ralph S. Jenkins, Dexter dealer. On the "Nebraska Test" it registers 47.04 h.p. on the belt, maximum, and 41.36, maximum, on the draw bar.