What’s a DoodleBug? It’s a poor man’s improvisational tractor, usually made from an old Ford. A really old Ford, like 1932 or older. During the Great Depression, when no one had any money, one of the ...

Popeye Vertefeuille moved through a roped-off area at the Brooklyn Fair on Aug. 27. He was doing what he’s been doing for the last 10 years at the fair, working a collection of gas engines that ...

What started as a piece of old farm equipment set next to a windmill has turned into an impressive collection of mule-driven and steel-wheel farm equipment in Gastonburg. Claude Strother has been ...

Of the more than 200 manufacturers of agricultural implements in the U. S., the greatest by far is the International Harvester Co. Another, far smaller, far less staunch, is the Advance-Rumely Co.

ALTA VISTA — A few years after farmer Everett Zimmerman retired in the mid-1990s, he began collecting anything that preserved the agricultural heritage of Kansas. Within five years, he and his wife, ...

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