As kids, a trip to the state fair did not mean going on rides on the carnival and what riding there was consisted of my brother sitting on every piece of equipment and tractor on machinery hill as well as collecting every brochure for each piece too. A trip today would have less equipment for him to ‘test’ out and no brochures to collect (as I figure the mothers complained to the companies as they would be the ones lugging the full sack of flyers around the fair grounds the rest of the day).
But there were some new and even some old equipment for us farm kids to see today, like this 1916 old tractor called “The Flour City”, produced by the Kinnard-Haines Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Flour City
Watch and listen to the Flour City in action.