yesterdays farming practice

Condensed from Capper's Farmer 1941
Farm hay drying has been made practical by equipment developed at the Tennessee Experiment Station. Rauth Brothers have installed the system on their farm in Warrick county, Indiana. It consists of a motor and fan set up on the outside with a series of ducts for distributing forced air thru the hay.

This is an article that was in Farmers Digest, October, 1941.
Few and simple were the principles of agriculture Chris Bixel, Swiss immigrant, had learned in his native Alps. There, steep hillsides remained in Nature’s sod. Cows ate the grass. The husbandman took the milk, kept back what his family needed, and made the rest into cheese to sell for other wants of livelihood. Forced to venture in a new land because his own was overcrowded, Bixel took a farm in Goodhue county, Minnesota, because its broken terrain resembled that of his own Switzerland more closely than any other he could find.