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Woman bagging just-threshed oats near Watertown

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.

Shoveling coal into a steam thresher near Watertown

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.

Threshing oats with steam powered machinery near Watertown

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 […]

Steam powered threshing machine near Watertown

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 […]

Carleton Villa farm on Carleton Island in the St. Lawrence River

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.

Neighbors help farmer Sydney Lonsdale near Dexter

16 neighbors brought their tractors and plows to plow the 35-acre field of Sydney Lonsdale who had been ill for six weeks and couldn’t do his autumn plowing. Those who took part were: Paul Williams, Clifford Bowman, Harry Williams, Everett White, Chester Lee, Winfred Weaver, Emmett Poole, Ross Sykes, Frank Adams, Ernest Middlestate, Edwin Eveleigh, […]