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Threshing at the Black family farm, near Brandon, sometime around the First World War.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Threshing from the stack

Each photograph from pioneer days is a window into a world gone by

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Sometimes it’s amazing the amount of details you can spot in old photographs. In the fall of 2014, Bruce Black of the Brandon area let the Manitoba Agricultural Museum copy negatives of historic photographs taken on his family’s farm in the Brandon area. The museum was able to digitize the images taken from the negatives.
Helmut Neufeld, a longtime volunteer at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum at Austin, has been hard at work restoring threshing 
machines in preparation for the July 31 Harvesting Hope event.
Country Crossroads, Local news

Everyone’s pitching in to help pitch at Threshermen’s Reunion

Organizers expect more that 125 threshing machines to be on hand for the world-record event

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The pioneer harvest to be staged at the 2016 Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede in Austin next month won’t just be the largest in this organization’s 62-year history. It will be the grandest display of operating threshing machines the world has ever seen, and that’s no publicity pitch. Harvesting Hope: A World Record to Help
Members of the Black family are seen here stacking sheaves on one of the Black family farms. There are several buildings close to the stacks which may be granaries indicating the Blacks are intending to set up the thresher so that grain can be dropped directly into the granaries from the thresher’s elevator. Usually farmers in this era were very aware of fire and would not place stacks in close proximity to buildings without a very good reason. And threshing directly into a granary was a common reason. One can also see the problems posed by wooden-wheeled wagon chassis, the wagon deck had to be high to clear the wheels and the pitcher had to pitch the sheaves that much higher. By the end of the day the pitcher would be feeling this!
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Old-time grain storage systems

Stacking sheaves was an important task but one that was rarely photographed

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In the fall of 2014, Bruce Black of the Brandon area lent the museum copy negatives of photographs taken on the farms operated by the Black family in the Brandon area. The museum was able to digitize the images taken from the negatives. Photos in this period are not common, as cameras and film were
Volunteers load up the last stooks of red spring wheat to finish the threshing demonstration.
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VIDEO: Preparing to thresh for the record

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Volunteers brought their skills, and their iron, to Winnipeg on Aug. 18 to show the sort of work involved in attempting a world-record threshing bee. The demonstration of old-school threshing was held at the Red River Exhibition fairgrounds as a preview of Harvesting Hope, an event scheduled for July 31 next year at Austin during
Lisa Roy and Erron Leafloor handle the task of forking stooked wheat into the thresher.
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PHOTOS: Getting organized to thresh for the record

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Volunteers from the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Manitoba Agricultural Museum brought their skills, and their iron, to Winnipeg Tuesday to show the sort of work a world-record threshing bee is made of. The demonstration of old-school threshing was held at the Red River Exhibition fairgrounds as a preview of Harvesting Hope, an event scheduled for
two women standing with decorative tractor quilt
Country Crossroads

Let’s cover rural Manitoba with ‘barn quilts,’ say Ag Museum staff

Inspired by other barn quilt trails of southern Ontario and Iowa, staff with the Manitoba Agricultural Museum at Austin hung out their own barn quilt on Mother’s Day and are working with other communities to piece together a map of where more will eventually be found

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Eunice and Doug Pratt were heading south through Iowa for a U.S. holiday when they spotted the first ‘barn quilt’ — a brilliant-coloured quilt block affixed to the front of a barn. But it wasn’t made with fabric. It was a large, colourful wooden eight-foot-square painted replica of a quilt block, and one of many
woman with antique ironing equipment
Country Crossroads

VIDEO: The labour of laundry

A load of laundry was anything but a load of fun as display of old-fashioned 
irons and washboards depicts at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum at Austin

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It’s a job and an era those who remember would probably rather forget. But a small exhibit at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum (MAM) reminds us again about the sort of work women did to get the farm laundry done in bygone days. All kinds of sad irons, plus washboards, sock stretchers, galvanized tubs and mangles
Colin Farquher has operated a steam engine at the Threshermen’s Reunion every year since 2008.  photo: meghan mast
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Threshermen remember farming during wartime

First World War and Second World War changed the way we farm

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Jim Down, 64, remembers hearing stories of the time his Uncle Art returned from the war to help with threshing on the farm. Down’s father, only five at the time, wore a small uniform, fashioned by his sisters, for the occasion. “We have pictures from the old photo albums of Uncle Art standing beside our
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Manitoba’s military heritage on display

60th annual Threshermen's Reunion and Stampede runs July 24 to 27

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2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. If you have not been to the museum for a number of years maybe 2014 is the year to drop by and help the museum celebrate its 60th. Manitoba’s military heritage is the feature attraction of the 60th Manitoba Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede, July 24
Horse pulling a wagon with people aboard
Country Crossroads

Mark June 3 on your calendar!

Seniors’ Day at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum is worth a visit

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It’s nearly time for the Manitoba Agricultural Museum’s Seniors’ Day, held each year at the museum, south of Austin, on the first Tuesday of June (June 3 this year). Hosted by the museum and the Austin Chamber of Commerce, it’s a day of companionship, entertainment, demonstrations and food. It is dedicated to seniors, and most

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