I think everyone was enjoying the fifty degree temperatures today including these Herefords.
Herefords on a Warm November Day
Picture of the Day for November 14, 2013
The majority of the barn pictures which I photograph are taken from the road and rarely do I get to go inside the barns. So I was a little surprised to find a barn inside a barn after taking a picture of the outside of this barn a year ago but never realized the hidden treasure inside.
There are some barn constructions in which a silo is built inside the barn and in this case, it appears the stand-alone granary was encompassed by a larger building at a later time.
Barn in a Barn
Picture of the Day for November 4, 2013
The farm fields have been busy with activity the last few weeks with harvest but the harvest method varied greatly from the super huge combines, to older smaller combines and corn pickers, and even cut by hand and shocked into bundles to let the corn dry down like my grandparents did.
Corn Shocks
Picture of the Day for October 26, 2013
Like people, trees are different and even the same variety of tree will display a range of color development and timing and multiple those factors with different varieties of trees and it paints a rainbow hillside.
Rainbow Hillside
Picture of the Day for October 23, 2013
These Herefords are wondering what happened to the 70s and sunny October weather as they don’t like the low 30s, grey and snowflakes anymore than I do.
Herefords Looking for Warm Autumn
Picture of the Day for October 22, 2013
Colored leaves and red apples on the trees announce that fall is here, but as soon as it gets here, it seems to slip away too quickly as more leaves are on the ground than on the tree, the days get cloudy and cold, and the apples are harvested before they freeze. And hopefully these apples were picked since the temperature was 23ºF last night, otherwise the birds will have a supply of apples to pick at.
Signs of Autumn
Picture of the Day for October 18, 2013
It may be Friday, but the work week won’t end for the farmers trying to get the crops in before winter, especially with the forecast of snow flakes in the air. The soybeans are being harvested in this field but there is still corn in the next field to get harvested.
Autumn Harvest
Picture of the Day for October 15, 2013
This ‘farmer’ probably will need his winter boots and coat soon with the mention of snow for Friday. And instead of a hay dump rake, he will need a tractor loader to dump snow instead.
Old Hay Dump Rake
Picture of the Day for October 12, 2013
Sometimes you have to look deeper to see a hidden gem. When admiring the colorful trees along the roadside, a small opening in the brush and trees gave a glance of something hidden and you just need to take the time to backup and investigate a little more. Finding the one small opening, nestled against a colorful slope, a farmstead across the valley floor could be seen by zooming in.
Course since I am short, I was grateful that my camera view finder would tip down so I could shoot over my head. That is much easier and safer than setting up a step ladder in the middle of the road to take the picture!
Hidden Barn
Picture of the Day for September 10, 2013
This grain thresher was a M. Rumely Company. The M. & J. Rumely Co. became the M. Rumely Co., and then the Advance Rumely Co. The Allis-Chalmers Company acquired the business in 1931.
The logo on the side says The Farmers Friend Stacker on the top circle and M. Rumely Co, La Porte, Ind. in the Manufacturer line. In the small print inside the circle it states “It’s the Farmers Friend and no mistake”
Excerpt from ‘MACHINES OF PLENTY’, By Stewart H. Holbrook (Chapter Nine-Page 105)
‘WHEN JEROME CASE died, Stephen Bull, his brother-in-law, became president of the Threshing Machine Company. During his regime the concern introduced a single crank self-feeder for threshers that eliminated both the feeders and band cutters of threshing crews. Because the self-feeder increased the amount of straw entering the machine, it called for more labor at the other end, where the threshed straw came out. This labor in turn was reduced by an endless conveyor stacker, which swung from side to side of the threshing machine as the straw moved away from it.
‘Even the conveyor stacker, however, several men were required to swing the stacker every little while and to stack the straw. An inventor named J. J. Buchanan soon came out with a patented wind stacker operated by a fan that forced a blast of air through a big pipe. Seldom has a new invention been so successful from its introduction as the wind stacker. It blew the threshed straw high and far in the air to fall and make a pile. Stacking was eliminated.
‘Not only farmers and the makers of farm machinery recognized at once the great improvement of the wind stacker. It was also recognized as such by a group of Hoosier lawyers who bought Buchanan’s patent rights, formed the Indiana Manufacturing Company, and set out to license actual manufacturers who wanted to add wind stackers to their threshing machines. This amounted to virtually everybody in business, including the Case Company. The new device was called the Farmer’s Friend Stacker. The concerns licensed to make it agreed to sell it at a fixed price, or $250. Of this amount, $30 went to the Indiana lawyers as royalty.
A Farmer’s Friend
