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Haystacks by Automation
Monroe, Wisconsin: "Louis Waelti of Monroe makes instant haystacks with a machine that reduces haying to a one-man operation. Cut hay is blown into a wagon and compressed into layers by a hydraulically-operated top section.…

"Other firms copied his design for a heavy duty manure spreader because he failed to patent it, but Stanley Knight saw his ideas for farm equipment carried out at a Brodhead factory employing 18 men."

"Juda, Wisconsin: They may not qualify as skyscrapers, but these storage tanks create somewhat of a skyline in the country. The silos belong to E.J. Kaderly and are used to store food for his dairy cows."

"Oakley, Wisconsin: When they tried to pick peas in a garden here, Craig and Timmy Schmidt found they were too “pea-picking” short. The variety they were picking is known as telephone peas because the vines grow seven feet tall."

"Brooklyn, Wis. -- In March 1989, Susan Waterman, 42, decided she was tired of toxic chemicals, radioactivity and the pressure of her positions in the botany and plant pathology departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"So she…

"A checker for the National Farm Organization, Harley Maske, weighed a calf at a stockyard in Monroe (Green County), while a 3 year old boy, Curt Riese, looked on. His mother is also a checker. The farm group is checking weights as well as numbers…

Black & white postcard image of the Adeline Stewart Farm in York Township, as viewed from above. On the back of the postcard, it was written that her home was in the center and her nephew's home was on the left, as well as how the white areas are…

An ad for the Dari-Kool Bulk Milk Cooler from the February 1955 issue of "Successful Farming". William Tschudy, a dairy farmer from Monroe, WI, is quoted as saying, "By saving a minimum of 13 cents cwt. on milk volume and butterfat, which I formerly…