North Country At Work

Unidentified men pitching oats into a steam engine driven threshing machine to separate grain from the straw and chaff. Circa 1880s. Heuvelton, NY.

A two horse treadmill powering a thresher on the Southworth Farm. The thresher separated the grain from the chaff (stalks/stems). Circa 1920. Canton, NY.

Chester Bovee and his father bringing in a load of loose hay on the Bovee family farm in 1920. Somewhere in Jefferson County in NYS. From an article written by Gladys’s sister, Evelyn Constance Bovee in the Watertown Daily Times, published on November 17, 1982. Related article on dairy farming here.

Gladys Bovee going out to milk in 1917. She was one of nine Bovee children who lived and worked on the family’s Jefferson County farm. From an article written by Gladys’s sister, Evelyn Constance Bovee in the Watertown Daily Times, published on November 17, 1982. Related article on dairy farming here.