Thank you all, I do appreciate it greatly. In some parts of the states, central New York included we had teams of harvesters. These men owned the equipment the family farmer couldn't afford and would follow a harvesting circuit. I can recall as a small boy in the mid fifties seeing a combine team come down our road and go into a wheat field to harvest. The machine was big as a house and wide as the road. Kids on bikes and dogs chased it while four or five men, my Dad included followed at a distance and set up in the hedges to watch it work. Listen to Art Thieme's recording of The Big Combine to get an idea of whast harvesting was like in the mid west around the turn of the century.

Thanks again.

Don