Wheat People: South Central Kansas Harvest Tales

Barber

Barton

-- Phill Martin: "I look at farming as 'What do I have control over?'"

Butler

Cowley

-- Paul Lawrence: "Winfield seems like an unlikely place to find a custom combining operation. . . ."

Harper

Harvey

-- Nelson Dreier: The first John Deere self-propelled combine.

Kingman

Marion

-- Homer Socolofsky: Carrying water to threshers and Working as a harvest hand.

McPherson

-- Steven Stover: Binding and threshing wheat and Custom threshing.

Pratt

Reno

-- Vicki Arnett: "The summer I was 10 years old . . . my legs were long enough to reach the clutch."

-- Buhler Centennial Calendar: Photos of threshing scenes and the Wall &Rogalsky Roller Mill.

-- Howard & June Peacock: 1960s harvest photos, including lunch in the field.

Rice

-- Doug Keesling: "All farms are corporate farms...."

-- Byron Patton: Harvesting wheat, barley, and oats after 1900 and Runaway Team.

-- John Stumps: Photos of headers, threshing machines, and early combines.

Sedgwick

Stafford

-- Howard Stude: A new 1927 Model D John Deere tractor.

Sumner

-- Robert Miller: Leadership skills of people with farming backgrounds.

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