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Show ,, , 1 , , 4 v ' q . ., , , th,,Q)4, IAIU , - .40, I It p ''''.. 1 ,ii..r: -- - - ,.' - , 1 Atsr,',.., ' 4' a', , .' 1 r V , "i, ,.- 1 '' ,''- 1 '''i - -e..- , 0 4 - -Th, ft t-- (,A0 , - - -- i- - , ,.. , A, ...... or 1 , , tt 2 i , .1 '''' 4 t - , , ..- " ' , , Lf , t .. t , ,,,,i.i , - 4 ,!.-,,,.. , Photos by the outhot L ti t '..' . , 4,4,14,, ., t ,: ''. oer) - ,. ' Nk., . ,- - "-- , I ' i "' z,,,,,, 1 ,,t ' ' ' ' , - - , .. , ! 'l ... - -- A - . old-tim- ., '' t iv . t ' !, E : . , a stack of bundled grain threshed by an old-tistationary threshing machine? Every September a lot of folks from Idaho, Montana, Washington, and Oregon do Just that. Out of 150 cars converging at the Chris e Busch threshing party at Colton, Washington, last fall, dozens were 300 miles from home. Some even came from western Canada. When it comes-tloyalty, you've thresh- eot to hand it to the old-tiermen. Combines may roll through America's great grain fields, theirs .included. Gone forever is their beloved stationary thresher and its g steam engine. puffing, thresher-ma- n Yet when an old-tiwants to hear the shrill toot of that engine, to him the sweetest music in the whole world, he doesn't need to draw on memory. He merely heads for the nearest, old-ti. threshing party. For something that's a relic of yesterday, the old thresher and its cohort, the steam engine, certainly are getting a lot of attention. And the men who once handled the throttle and pulled the whistle cord are falling into line in a series of regional crusades that add up to a national drive to save the old threshing machine engine. As many as 800 people have, for instance, flocked to the Busch farm near the Idaho border in eastern e Washington, for his annual 7) , ' o I t . 4 , . . , . . , . , , , . . , - .! - , , , - . ', , - 2.t --4;4,,La. lommetaa a:e4,4 .1; .. Ze,,,;;A, ,,,e40.4..466.40,46,400...te.,,,,,,40,0.- -.. 4.... ."...,4,... a ALSO A STEAM ENGINE ENTHUSIAST, CHM SUSCH AND HIS SON. CHRIS A, , 3"kA zwtata2A;NibtAw64,1140.6.0. .:,; ,1 . , : td. . , i. it '' , -- f wood-eatin- LOOK OVER SOME OP THEM 24 OLD THRESHERS . ' , t ' N.. i ' 1 . 1 .,,, ' al . ., - 1. ,:-- 1 . r. , , - .:1 ' s . ' , i ;,., :".., - , 4. 71 .2 , - , i .. , ,. , . ". ' ----- .....-....- I ,.. , 1 - -- , . ' - , . f " N , 1 t v. . , - ' if - 4 - )1 ,,N .,, 1 7 ; - , - 1 , N i .t, -- g ' ..., .y . old-tim- f ',,. t .. - I 1 an .. , , AFFECTIONATELY, .... . "...i.e....1i ) - - MD tanto"seey and, ally:ighdrit ;fuse ly i1 , o r ''' T- ) By O. A. FITZGERALD f ,, .. . ' I e - '' , , 0801WmdWO 11. ' s'Ztlw I. , 1, ,,,, AO. 1 , , , . - , -- - - ......,r.,-- . ,:,,a,...,,,,,,,,,,L.4,-,..--,,,- ,,,i thresher from Busch's and repaired, if neceschance to do its stuff again. a and sary, given EACH YEAR, a different collection is oiled, greased, old-tim- e thresher hand gots engine qmi- lar to type that he used to operate. .. ' , f , - - 1 e , apep- , - 11011, , ,, :,, . ' : ., - - "16 ,, , , ' .. ' I ( t , - C3' 1 t. t , ..:. i. I ' C . , , 4 , y" , -- .,,,,,,,,,-,- ik . 44, 111...--- 1 ot, 1 ) k'-- 0 ' c , (... , '' 1 - "Z.' 'eti 0 (--- , , r ' f, , 1 1 , - e i , , , , A ' 1 ,, - , Not) '5, ' : -- . ' ..5 ' , . , I ; k ' , , ., I i , . ' , - ' e ANOTHER engine, rescued from the hank heap, comes to its home on the Busch farm, on the border of Idaho and Washington. It will soon be all ready to run. old-tim- ALL KINDS of machines are found in the Busch 4thresher museum, and the steam engine lover who visits the place con find just about any make that he's ever operated. , ,., , . . MONT toms MAGAZINE. SALT un an, , erm-earrai- ne Sa, wet |
