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AFTERNOON THRESHING

By Frank Manes

Blanchard, Iowa 51630.

Just thought I would like to tell you about an afternoon of threshing that my Dad and I did with some help from others on July 17, 1971. We cut 10 acres of oats a few days before and shocked them. Dad has two identical McCormick Deering 22 x 38 threshers, one which he bought in 1958 and the other he bought in September, 1970 from a cousin. The last one is probably one of the last new machines sold in this part of the country and has done less than one seasons run. We thought it would be kind of interesting to run both machines so as you can see in the pictures, we set them side by side and ran the grain into one wagon and had both blowers headed to one straw pile. We had approximately 85 visitors and helpers during the afternoon.

In one picture we are pulling with a 1941 John Deere D and a 1929 John Deere G. P. and the other picture shows 1938 Mode...

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