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Food and fascination combine for these
youngsters as they look at a model
display in the craft show in the arena.
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PAGE A-8. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1988.
Welcome
to
Blyth
BLYTH
GENERAL
Rick Elliott
519'523-9725
don’t stick together so much. There have
been terrible changes in rural communities,
he says.
Established 1910
BLYTH, ONTARIO NOM 1H0
519-523-4401
4GENERATIONSSINCE1910
LIFE
R. John Elliott
519-523-4323
His horse is now ‘a big pet’
Highlight of each afternoon at the Thresher Reunion is the
giant parade with just about every machine on the grounds
that willmove. Leadingtheway are the majestic steam
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continued to thresh until 1971 and had one of
the last threshing operations in the area.
After that they switched to using a
combine for another seven years. There
were some advantages and some disadvan
tages to the combine. The threshing
machine had a straw cutter that gave better
quality straw whilewiththe combine the
straw had to be baled and drawn in. The
combine however allowed farmers to be
more independent, not having to work
together in gangs to get work done. Two
independent, he says now, because farmers
engines, chugging and clanking and now and then letting go
an ear-splitting blast from their steam whistles.
He still keeps one horse that’s ‘ ‘just a big
pet’ ’ with the idea he can use him to pull his
car out if it gets struck in the winter. Until
recent years he took delight in getting a team
out and doing some plowing. “I miss them”
he says of his team. But he doesn’t
downgrade the tractors that came to replace
them. You can always sit on the seat and
watch the wheels go round but you can’t
follow horses like you can when you’re
young, he says.
George is the third generation of his family
to farm the Carlow farm with its impressive,
two-storey brick home, overhang-barn and
an old silo made of glazed brown brick. He
raised pigs and cattle when he was more
active, now rents some of the land out,
pastures cattle for others and keeps a few
cattle himself. He keeps busy keeping the
farm in good shape, taking time to paint barn
windows this day.
He plans on being at the Thresher Reunion
as usual this year, renewing acquaintances
with the old machines and the people who
run them. ‘‘I haven’t missed one in 27,” he
says.
News item:
Mr. Duncan, of the Blyth foundry, has
invented and patented a new rotary steam
engine which he expects will revolutionize
the steam engine business.
Huron Expositor, Feb. 4,1881.
Congratulations to the PioneerThresher Association
on their27th Reunion
John, Bev, Rick, Anne Elliott
& Barb Snell
R.R. 3
Twin County Elevators
Division of Parrish & Heimbecker
extend Best Wishes to the
Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association
on the occasion of their
27th Reunion
WE ARE READY TO RECEIVE YOUR../
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Our very best wishes to the
27th Annual
Thresher Reunion
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