North Country At Work

Teamster hauling feedbags through downtown Dexter. Circa 1900. Dexter, NY.

Steel-wheeled tractor pulling hay wagon with hay loader attached to rear, harvesting loose hay. Circa early 1900s. In Dexter

Farmers loading loose hay with a horse drawn hay loader, early 1900s. Note windrows: hay in foreground raked into rows to prepare it for pick up by loader. Dexter, NY.

Garland Stone with his father’s team drawing dump wagon. The bottom of a dump wagon opened up to deposit load between the wheels. Circa 1922. Dexter, NY.

Two-horse hitch pulling corn binder and farmer. Circa 1920. Dexter NY.

Ed Stone, using walking plow with mules. Circa 1915. Dexter NY.

M.R. Lee with children Chester and Douglas on wagon with milk cans, heading to a cheese factory. Circa 1920. Dexter NY. Related article on early transport of milk here.

Threshing in front of Pillar Point Barn. The  machine was probably steam or gasoline engine driven. Note straw and chaff being blown out beyond horses. Horses are hitched to wagon collecting cleaned grain. Circa 1910. Pillar Point, NY. For more information, check out this North Country at Work story about growing up on a family form […]

Jim Williams’ “Peerless” steam tractor.  Circa 1910. Pillar Point, NY.

Three-horse hitch grain binder, early 1930s, in Dexter NY.