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OLDEST TRACTOR AT THRESHEREE -- Kenneth Sayre, Edgerton, is dwarfed by this Jumbo
12-14 horsepower tractor manufactured by the Harrison Machine
Works Co. about 1900. Beautifully restored by its owner, Pete
Brno [Burno], DeForest, the tractor, one of nine old-timers,
that can be seen at the second annual Rock River Steam Thresheree
Saturday through Monday along with old threshing machines and
other antique farm equipment. The Thresheree will be held on
the John Horton farm seven miles northwest of Janesville between
County Trunk F and Highway 51. The threshing exhibition will
start each day at 10 a.m. After a pause at noon, the afternoon
activities start at 1 p.m. All of the old equipment will be paraded
daily at 2 p.m. and the threshing and sawing will be resumed
at 3 p.m., Saturday, Sunday and Monday. -- Gazette photo |
