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- The Janesville Gazette, July 1956
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Farmers north of Janesville will attempt to recreate a threshing scene long since vanished.
An old-time threshing crew will gather at the August Henke farm at Henke's Corners, seven miles north of here, to get a last experience of threshing with a steam engine.
John Horton, who lives in the neighborhood, has put his 1916 Advance-Rumely engine into condition for the trial run, and Henke has a field of oats in shocks waiting to be hauled to the separator.
What may be the last run for one of the old steam rigs will be recorded for television and by motion pictures as well as news photographs. There will be one detail which cannot be duplicated, however. Farmers in the vicinity have been unable to find horses or horse-drawn racks to haul the bundles of grain from the field. It will be pulled to the farm yard by tractors.
The grain harvest started in the area this week, but nearly all of it will be threshed by combines in the field. A few farmers still thresh, but they use a tractor to supply the power.
The farm where the old engine will work is on County Trunk F, the former U.S. 51, between Janesville and Edgerton.
