The Rural Voice, 1979-08, Page 12Old tile drain equipment featured at the Ontario
Aorlcultural Museum In Milton.
It'sa
great place
to visit
PG. 10 THE RURAL VOICE/AUGUST 1979
BY SHEILA GUNBY
Boy, have times changed. It used to be a "good farmer with a
good scythe could cut two acres a day," according to the
orientation film which is part of the introduction to the Ontario
Agricultural Museum in Milton.
The museum is in year four of a ten year construction program
designed to show the evolution of agriculture - Canada's first
industry.
Displays are numerous, informative and eye catching. The
exhibit hall features developing sources of power on the farm -
man power, animal power, nower from water. wind and steam
and how the internal combustion system works.
Heavy equipment and tractors, all lined up in rows, all
catalogued; steam engines, one manufactured by Robert Bell of
Seaforth, Down's Threshing Machine from Auburn, circa 1873; a
thresher from Lobbsinger's in Mildmay.
Other unique features include an entire building portraying
the dairy industry, an octoganal barn, a women's institute
building where they can still conduct meetings.
Although the museum is still in the process of being built,
there is already lots to see. It's a place to visit more than once.