What was the first stop on the road to butter? See what tools old cream stations used to use to test dairy, including antique cream separators. Some time back in letters to the editor a reader asked ...

The tractor has received a coat of linseed oil, patina perfectly blending aged paintwork into bare patches. Learn how this mechanic restored his 1937 KTA while still preserving rust patina using ...

A 1963 CJ5 equipped with a 1946 Newgren hydraulic lift. Eighty years ago, a new kind of vehicle drove into the world. Months before the U.S. entered into World War II, military leaders had a plan to ...

Born in Massachusetts in 1825, Asahel Huntington Patch was an early pioneer in America’s farm implement industry. His struggle to successfully operate an implement factory paid off late in life when ...

The John Deere Waterloo Boy Model N tractor had a 2-speed transmission, and most had automotive-type steering. It was sold until 1924, when Deere’s Model D was launched. In the early days of power ...

Barn finds make for great stories. Rescues have a slightly different flavor. Such is the rescue story of the only RD6 side-seat with Trailer Patrol known to exist. The town of Fortescue, Missouri, had ...

A “dozen soup plate” disc harrow that’s similar to the one our poet waxes so enthusiastic over. Not long ago, someone asked about the early history of disc harrows. I’d never thought much about it, ...

The Farmall F-22 in 1938 when it was beginning to look more like the subsequent production Farmall H. Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society, image ID: WHi-27595. In the 1920s, American designers such ...

Most readers of Farm Collector probably aren’t familiar with the nomenclature of the wooden wagons found on nearly every American farm until the mid-1950s. Early man acquired knowledge of friction ...

The New Holland Model 73 automatic pick-up baler was the first self-tying machine of its type to take hay baling to the field. A cut-away display of a Hesston by Massey Ferguson small rectangular ...

It’s not a normal occurrence, in the 21st century, to drive past a cornfield and see a farmer combining with a small, orange New Idea Uni-Harvester. But ever since I can remember, my father has been a ...

The use of a pretty face has a long and successful history in the field of commercial art. Here, the image of a sweet country girl is used to market cream separators. In an effort to compete with ...