In a recent email from my sister, she wrote about the moment when our parents decided that it was time to buy a swathers. She referenced the machine to be replaced as ????. The ???? represented a binder, a machine pulled by a tractor, that cut the nearly ripen grain, gathered the stalks together until there were enough to bind into a bundle with a twine. It was the mechanism the tied the twine that failed so frequently that they decided to buy the next generation machinery.
Draft horses? Surely draft horses could be considered a common symbol of our ancestors upon their arrival on the farmland of the Dakotas. I only remember grandpa Ziegler and Lenhart using horses in my days. I do remember horses at the Saxowskys but never did I see them used.
When did we get our first tractor? Was it a John Deere A or B?
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