Agricultural Machinery | Rod Library's Des Moines Register Index

Threshermen field days.

Ford making balers at Des Moines Implement Plant.

Ennis "Yampy" Sterner's 'hooked' on old steam tractors.

Nostalgia for old threshers.

Vern Schield, founder of the Schield Bantam Company tells the story of Self

68 machinery: Bigger, safer, costlier.

Ford to build rotary cutters here.

New corn harvester takes 8 rows at a time.

Old machines produce modern farming tools.