ENGINES, ENGINES, AND MORE ENGINES

Enlarge Image Image Gallery 28x48 Baker separator threshing oats at the home of Harold Doebler, Clarkston, Michigan. Harold J. Doebler

Clarkston, Michigan

I am enclosing my check for $2.00 for a year's renewal to the magazine as I do not want to miss any of the copies. I find them very interesting and read them from cover to cover several times. The steam engines are most all gone today. There are a few left that are used just for exhibition and the novelty. Threshing is almost a thing of the past in this part of the state. There are only about four of us living around here that thresh any more. The rest combine. I believe I was the only farmer to thresh in this Township this year.

I am enclosing a picture of my separator. It is a Baker 28x48, powered by a Farmall ? tractor. The picture was taken in 1954 but I used it in the same location in 1955.

I attended the Michigan State College (University) Centennial at East Lansing last August. It was an event worth seeing. There were several old steam threshing engines, Case, Huber, Avery, Russell, Rumely, Nichols & Shepard, Keck-Gonnerman, and an old Stillwater portable engine. There was also a complete Case threshing rig that was in the pageant every day. Mr. Mc Milliam of Kansas, was there with his Case and the famous hill climbing event was held every day. A stack of wheat was there and some was threshed twice a day with the old Stillwater engine and an old Port Huron thresher with hand feed and straw carrier. I hoped that some one would have sent a report and sonic pictures to your magazine.