| Summary: | Farming—Our Heritage One of the first combines in the area was a 16-ft. McCormick-Deering machine purchased by Ed Magrum from a Kintyre dealer, M. B. Fallgatter, in the summer of 1927. *# Haying at Hanson Brotners tarm A Sunday in August was set aside for demonstrating. People came from a large area to see the "new wonder machine" work. The day was spoiled by just enough sprinkles of rain to stop the demonstration. Later in the day, after most had gone home, the sun came out and they were able to cut some grain. The combine could only take the rye straight. Thus, the grain was too moist to store. It was shipped to Minneapolis where it was run through a dryer for a small price. The combine was not used a few years in the 30's because straw was needed for feed. It was operated by being pulled by an International one-cylinder gasoline tractor. Mr. Magrum had named the tractor "Betsy" and it had been used on a threshing machine, threshing along the way to Canada, and in the Peace River country. Grain was hauled to Kintyre by a Model T truck.— Mrs. Adam Jangula, Hazelton. / ISL^ ~, y Page 85 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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