The federal government estimated that farmers owned 24 million horses and mules in 1910, with most having three or four in their barns. Although the saying “as stubborn as a Missouri mule" sullied the ...

At 8 o’clock in the morning, June 28, 1921, thousands of farmers and onlookers held their breaths as the great National Tractor Farming Demonstration and Show began. On one side of the 640-acre ...

MARATHON, N.Y. (AP) — While most modern farmers work their fields accompanied by the rumble of a trusty tractor, sheep farmer Donn Hewes labors to the faint jingling of harnesses in rhythm with the ...

Large diesel tractors pulling multi-row planters and fertilizer applicators will start another crop year. This large-scale, mechanized way of farming has been around for so long it is almost ...

APPLE CREEK – There was a time when horses were part of the family particularly on the farm. There, a good team of horses was as much a part of family life as was the Saturday night bath. Horses did ...