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2017 Ram 1500 BIG HORN CREW 4X4

2007 Dodge Dakota Ext. Cab 4x4

5.7L HEMI 8 spd auto, air, cruise, keyless entry, pdl, ps, pw, rear view camera, heated seats, tow pkg. 164,000 kms. $23,999. Dealer permit #4222.

Call Kyle 204-822-3047.

3.7L V6, air, cruise, power seat, tow pkg. 129,946 kms. $8,200.

Call Pete at (204) 331-3326 Pembina Valley Auto.

2007 Subaru LEGACY OUTBACK LEGACY AWD

2.5L air, keyless entry, pdl, ps, pw, roof rack. 201,400 kms. $7,499. Dealer permit #4222. Call Kyle 204-822-3047.

2011 Honda Civic SE Coupe

2007 GMC Canyon SLE

2010 Dodge Grand Caravan SE

1.8L 4 cyl auto, air, cruise, pdl, pw, sunroof. 219,200 kms. $7,500.

Call Pete at (204) 331-3326 Pembina Valley Auto.

3.5L 5 cyl., PS, PW, PDL, CC, AC. 198,000 kms. $6,700. Skyline Autobody at 204-325-8155.

3.3l V6 auto, pw, pdl, ps, cruise, air, rear air and heat, stow and go.

141,000 kms. $7,699. Skyline Autobody at 204-325-8155.

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Tractor Trek Memorial to Brother

By Les Kletke

There are a lot of memories that ride with Larry Penner when he drives his Super W4 McCormick. His dad bought the tractor new in 1954 and he remembers working it on the family farm. This past summer he drove it in the southeastern Tractor Trek as a memorial to his brother Leo who passed away earlier this year.

The brothers had restored the tractor together a few years ago. It underwent some small mechanic repairs and they had it painted at the time. “We restored it together and Leo had it in his shed because he was much more interested in the antique tractors,” said Penner who lives on the farm he grew up on at Blumenort.

Leo Penner was a long time member of the antique tractor club in southeastern Manitoba and had several other pieces of antique equipment. “This spring Rollie Wiebe asked me to drive it in the Tractor Trek as a memorial to Leo,” said Penner. “So I did that and it brought back a lot of memories.”

The Super W4 was built by International and followed on the heels of the WF. It was built for only two years, 1953 and 1954. The company built 784 of the units which were rated at 23 hp on the drawbar and 30 hp on the PTO. The model offered a slight power increase over the earlier W4. It was powered by the same basic 2.7 litre 4-cylinder gas engine.

Penner remembers using the tractor for cutting hay, a lot of baling as well as ploughing and that the clutch provided a real challenge for a youngster. “But I always managed to get going.”

“It was a two bottom tractor but on some of our lighter land we could use 3 bottoms,” he said of a time when tractors were measured by the number of plough bottoms they could pull.

“Dad used the tractor for everything, seeding, discing and plowing,” he said. Now the tractor is stored in his machine shed and comes out for special occasions.

He has retired from farming and rented his land so has little need for the tractor on a day-to-day basis. “I take it out to give the grandchildren rides, in a trailer a few times through the summer,” he said.

He has not yet decided if he will drive it in next year’s Tractor Trek.

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J.W. Roe Threshing into the Barn The Dickson Henderson Families of the Boissevain area donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum (MAM) a number of photos of agricultural activities taken on the farms the families operated in the area.

In this collection of photos there are also a number of photos taken on the J.W. Roe farm near Arden, Manitoba. In the early 1920s, Earl Henderson married Alberta Roe who was teaching at Caranton School close to where Earl was farming. Apparently the Roe Family sent Alberta photos of the Roe farm. Two of the photos show Alberta’s father, J.W. Roe, threshing into his barn in 1918.

John Wesley Roe was the son of Richard Roe and was born at Gorrie, Ontario in 1866. Richard Roe was a horse dealer purchasing horses in Ontario for shipment west,

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operating this business from 1879 to 1886. J.W. Roe was employed with this business from 1884 to 1886 when the Roe family migrated west.

While his family settled in the Portage area, J.W. continued on to the Snake Creek area near Arden where he purchased a farm on the north side of Snake Creek.

Apparently J.W. wanted a farm with water as he intended to raise stock.

As well, he wanted a property close to a school and the farm he purchased was only 80 rods or 440 yards from a school.

In 1888, J.W. Roe married Annie Webb and they began a family. In total they had eight children with Alberta being one of the daughters. J.W. Roe was active in the Methodist Church being named an elder of the Salisbury Methodist Church at the age of 24. He was also active in forming the Arden Co-operative Elevator Association, going on to serve as a Director of this Association.

It appears as well as farming and stock raising, Roe was a cattle dealer.

As the Manitoba and Northwestern Railway, later purchased by the CPR, operated a stock car loading facility in Arden, it may well be that he assembled car loads of animals and sent them into the stockyards in Winnipeg for sale in addition to trading in animals in the Arden area.

On October 26, 1896 a prairie fire swept through part of the Arden area. It was one of the largest of the 1896 year, starting approximately 10 miles north of Arden and sweeping to the southeast.

J.W. Roe lost some of his crop along with hay, buildings and a wagon in this fire. Two of his brothers were farming in the area as well and both lost their entire crop to this fire. Other farmers also were affected by this fire; John McDonald, W.D. Ferg and J. Duncan all lost their hay, J. Pattison two stacks of wheat, the Chapman Brothers all their oats.

John McDonald had moved to Arden from Chater, Manitoba on the Monday before the fire and, as a consequence of losing their hay, the family moved back to Chater on the Saturday after the fire. Doubtlessly for the farm families losing part or all of their crops and other assets, this fire was a significant blow.

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The photo was taken in 1918. J.W. Roe’s wooden threshing machine is set beside the Roe barn with the blower tube running at an upward angle through a small door in the end wall of the barn. While there is no sheaf wagon pulled up alongside the threshing machine, it does appear the belt is moving. A grain wagon is pulled under the elevator spout. There are grain bags draped over the side of the grain wagon box so it appears the grain is being bagged rather than just being dumped loose into the wagon.

Probably the barn dates from the 1890s period as by 1918 hip roofed barns were coming into vogue with their greater loft capacity. This barn would have been simpler to construct than a hip roof barn with its complicated rafter design and from the looks of it, it may have been expanded several times over the years. There is a lean to on the left hand side of the barn and, as well, the main body of the barn is in a T shape. The lean to and one leg of the T could have been added at a later date to the basic structure. It would be interesting to determine why the barn was constructed in a T shape. If one needed larger barn, then why not just lengthen the building?

It appears this end of the barn was always used for straw as the end wall has only one small door just above the loft floor with the lean to having another small door into its loft. Generally hay was taken into the loft through a large door or doors which were set high up on the end wall just under the peak. A track fitted with a trolley was hung on the underside of the rafter and came out of the loft through large doors fitted high up on one end of the barn. A hay sling was able to be attached to the trolley and this sling took hay into the barn. But as can be seen this end of the Roe barn was not fitted with large doors so it appears this end of the barn did not handle hay.

Unfortunately there is no photo of the other end of the barn. However, one would think that J.W. Roe would need hay as well as straw in the barn for the winter so the other end of the barn could be set up to handle hay into the loft.

Moline was formed in Moline, Illinois and manufactured the Flying Dutchman line of plows. With the emergence of the tractor, Moline decided to enter tractor manufacturing. But, for some reason, they decided they were going to concentrate on the motor cultivator idea. Moline contracted with IHC to produce five experimental motor cultivators which turned out to be unsuccessful. Moline then purchased the Universal Tractor Company in 1915 which had designed and built the Universal Motor Cultivator. Moline continued production of this design labelling it the Moline Universal A. The Universal Model B appeared in 1916 with the Model C appearing in 1917. The Model D appeared in 1918.

The Universal Motor Cultivator was articulated between the front wheels and the rear wheels. There was a toothed arc mounted on the front section of the chassis with the steering wheel turning a pinion gear mounted on the rear section which acted on the toothed arc steering the tractor. Various mechanical linkages worked the clutch and throttle from the driver’s seat on the rear section. The Model D is thought to be the first farm tractor offered with an electrical system for ignition and starting. The Model D also featured an unusual Remy Electrical Company electric governor-generator, which resulted in the mechanical throttle linkage being discarded with the throttle then being worked through an 8 point rheostat which required the operator to think ahead as the rheostat resulted in a delayed throttle response.

While the Universal tractor was equipped with a drawbar and could pull implements, the rear wheels could be detached and in the place of the rear wheels, various implements could be mounted. Moline built fairly complete line of implements specifically designed for the Universal tractor such as a plow, cultivator, disc, seed drill, harrows, grain binder, corn binder, hay mower and a manure spreader.

Mounting implements on the tractor seemed to be fairly simple. One backed the tractor up to the implement you wanted to attach. As the tractor came close to the implement, one swung the rear section of the chassis so it just cleared one side of the implement. In this position, the tractor did not have to be moved too far to the side before it was in position to hook up to the implement.

In this photo you can see a heavy beam on the rear section of the tractor chassis above the rear wheels. The frame holding the rear wheels was attached to this beam with two pins that were removed to drop the frame with the rear wheels off the tractor. With the frame and rear wheels out of the way, the implement could be attached. As the tractor was balanced over the front axle, one person could hold the rear of the main beam up in the air, swivel it sideways and then drop the beam down on the implement where two pins then were inserted into appropriate mounts on the beam and implement so “marrying” the tractor and implement together.

On paper, the Universal with its four cylinder engine did not develop all that much horsepower. However, in a 1920 Nebraska Tractor Trial test the Model D developed 27.5 horsepower on the belt and 17 on the drawbar. On paper Moline rated the tractor as a 9-18. 27.5 horsepower and it would be enough to power the Roe threshing machine.

Moline ended production of the Universal in 1923 as sales were poor due to a depressed farm economy of the early 1920s and the introduction of the IHC Farmall series of tractors which became very popular with farmers involved in row cropping. Before the introduction of the Farmall, the Universal had enjoyed good sales to row crop farmers.

While the Museum’s tractor collection does not contain a Moline Universal tractor, the Universal is an interesting idea and is just one of the wide varieties of ideas that were being tried in the early days of tractor development.

The Manitoba Agricultural Museum is open year round. For more information visit mbagmuseum.ca.

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