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O.T. Farmers Pocket Notebooks

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JOHN HARMON

08-20-2006 16:51:56




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While cleaning up my shop I found a box with a lot of the old time[from the 1960's] Farmers Pocket Notebooks. The kind most of the Farm Service Companys and Seed Corn Dealers used to give out before "Caps" became the big Advertisement item. Any way looking thru them there is a wealth of Ag. related information in these old Notebooks,for instance in 1961 Ia. was the largest Corn producing State followed closely by ILL. Ia. planted 10,098,000 Acres and Il planted 8,288,000 Acres of Corn. Average Yield for Ia.74.0 bu to the Acre, Il. yield 77.0 bu. per acre. In 1963 Ia. planted 10,754.000 Acres yielding 80.0 bu.to the Acre and IlL. planted 8,849,000 Acres with an Avg. yield of 85.0 bu. per Acre. Of particular delight to me was an IHC Notebook titled "Guide to Better Planting " with an IHC 456 Planter. The cover is a scene of myself operating an IHC 560 pulling an IHC 456 Planter on the IHC Advertising Dept. Farm called "Hickory Hill Farm" at Norway ILL. where I as a young man was employed for 9 years before going Farming full time on my own. If any one has a question to be answered and an answer is available from one of these old Seed and Fertilizer and the 456 IHC Planter notebook I will gladly furnish an answer if possible. Just post your question on the Equipment Forum and I will see it as I visit YT.every day.

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monomechanical

08-20-2006 21:05:34




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 Re: O.T. Farmers Pocket Notebooks in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-20-2006 16:51:56  
Mr. Harmon:

Can you post a few photos? Many of us would love to see them, and dream of the good old days.

mono



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mile0001

08-20-2006 20:06:56




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 Re: O.T. Farmers Pocket Notebooks in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-20-2006 16:51:56  
I've got a dozen or so of them from the 50's and 60's and love looking at all the information that is in them, and thought that they should give out new ones again as advertising. Our local elevator gives out little (tiny) calendars with a magnet to go on the fridge, which just go in the garbage. I did see one new one this spring from a seed salesman guy, but it had very little info in it compared to the old ones.

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wesley croom

08-20-2006 18:12:57




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 Re: O.T. Farmers Pocket Notebooks in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-20-2006 16:51:56  
I've got an old "Pocket Guide for Farmers and Lumbermen" from 1906 that belonged to my Granddad. It's got weights and measures of common ( then) materials, recipes for mule linament, and helpful hints for the farm and mill. That's really cool that you show up on the cover of one of the ones you have.



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David Mulnix

08-20-2006 17:47:57




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 Re: O.T. Farmers Pocket Notebooks in reply to JOHN HARMON, 08-20-2006 16:51:56  
I have my grandfathers notebook. Farmers pocket Companion 1904 John Deere Plow Co. Pictures of walking plows. Wood and steel beam. David



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