GRANDDAD HAD THE FIRST TRACTOR ON RUBBER TIRES IN MINNESOTA

Milferd Smith

My grandfather had the first rubber-tired tractor in Meeker County, Minnesota, and according to Firestone, the entire state. My grandfather was a successful farmer, businessman, legislator, father and Christian. He had five sons; four were in their late teenage years and early twenties in 1920. At that time, a thresher with a big steam engine did the threshing. You had to put your grain bundles into stacks until he got there. Many times, it was December before he got done, depending on how much rain or snow they had. Launching a business With all of the help my grandfather had, he decided to buy a Huber thresher and an International Harvester Co. (IHC) Titan tractor. He used that equipment to start a custom threshing business. Silos were just coming into use,…

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Farm Collector (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2022

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