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Historic Farm Days Show Schedule 2021 I&I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club BOARD MEMBERS

President: Chuck Stelter Vice Presidents: Dean Blackford and Barry Maury Secretary: J.C. Reitmeier Treasurer: Gene Schmidt

DIRECTORS

John Bensyl Dave Bosch Kenny Knight Ed Winkleman Roger Musson Carl Vandevender Membership: Jim Rein Activity Directors: Russell Buhr and Marvin Johnson

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THURSDAY 6 p.m. Antique Classes FRIDAY ALL DAY-Abe Lincoln here, and Photo Booth Open Noon to 7 p.m. “Kids Day” Obstacle Course & PuttPutt Golf, North of Log Cabin 10 a.m.

Tractor Games, Grandstand 1 p.m.

Tractor Parade 2:30 p.m.

Professor Farquar and Polecat Annie, Pavilion 2 to 4 p.m. Bingo, School Cafeteria 5 p.m.

ITPA Sanctioned Tractor Pull

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SATURDAY ALL DAY-Abe Lincoln here, and Photo Booth Open Tractor Games, Grandstand

Noon to 7 p.m. Kid’s Obstacle Course & Putt-Putt Golf, North of Log Cabin

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3 to 6 p.m.

5 p.m.

Dusk 8:30 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

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Tractor Parade Wes Wheeler Battle Creek Band, Pavilion IPA Sanctioned Tractor Pull, Grandstand Steam Engine Spark Show SUNDAY Tractor Drive leaves the grounds Church Service at Old Penfield Church Raffle Tractor Drawing

DAILY ATTRACTIONS Corn Shelling Threshing Potato Digging Blacksmith Shop Field Demonstrations Museum Old Schoolhouse Log Cabin Chicago Pneumatic Engine Parts and Toy Vendors (Schedule Subject to Change)

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Welcome to Historic Farm Days The I & I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club welcomes you to the 2021 Historic Farm Days show in Penfield, Illinois. 2021 marks the 45th year for our club. It will be good to see everyone at the show, after Covid-19 shut everything

down in 2020.

This year we are featuring Massey Harris/ Ferguson, along with the 2020 features of Minneapolis Moline and B.F. Avery, since the show had to be cancelled.

While at the show,

we hope you enjoy seeing all of the exhibits, vendors and other daily activities. Daily activities will include: tractor parades, antique and sanctioned tractor pulls, musical entertainment, blacksmith shop and

field demonstrations. The museum, club hall, one room school house and log cabin will all be open for viewing.

Putting on a show like this would not be possible without our dedicated club members, volunteers,

friends in the community and you – our guests.

We hope to see you at the show and again in 2022, when we will be featuring Ford. Enjoy the show – and be safe!

Chuck Stelter- President

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Family operates farm equipment company for more than 6 decades ARTHUR, Ill. — The Kuhns family has assisted farmers in the Arthur area with their farm equipment needs since 1956.

“I grew up in this business, I was 3 1/2 years old when dad started,” said Howard Kuhns, owner of Kuhns Equipment that has dealerships in Arthur and Gibson City.

“The company started with Ferguson equipment, and when they merged with Massey-Harris, we sold Massey Ferguson starting in 1958,” Kuhns said.

Massey Ferguson along with Minneapolis Moline and B.F. Avery equipment will be featured July 8-11 during the Historic Farm Days at Penfield. The fourday show is organized by the I&I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club.

Kuhns’ first job at the farm dealership was in the parts department.

“My dad took me out of school after ninth grade because he needed a parts man,” he said. “It was less complicated then because we didn’t have a multitude of lines or machines dating back 60 years.”

After about 1973, Kuhns worked in sales.

“I was manager until 2013, when I took ownership,” he said.

The Gibson City location was added to the family business in 1995, and it is managed by Kuhns’ son, Ben. “That was a long time Allis Chalmers dealership, but by then they sold AGCO e qu ipment i nclud i n g Massey Ferguson,” Kuhns said. “Our primary area of responsibility is 17 counties in east-central Illinois.”

In addition to Massey Ferguson, farmers also can

choose from Versatile and Fendt tractors at Kuhns Equipment.

“Fendt is the new stateof-the art tractor,” Kuhns said.

Kuhns has experienced lots of changes in the farm equipment business during his lifelong career at his family dealership.

“There was a time when it was very fashionable to have a two-row corn picker mounted on a tractor,” he said.

As farmers started trading those pickers for self-propelled machines, demand for the pickers diminished.

“We had a dozen or more that we ended up selling for scrap,” Kuhns said. “I remember that quite vividly.”

Working to develop financing packages is Kuhns’ favorite part of his work at the farm dealership.

“I really enjoy putting finance packages together that work out for everyone involved including the farmers, the companies we represent and our company,” he said. “The opportunity to make it cash flow is really important for people to be able to afford today’s machinery.”

In addition to selling equipment, the company also does some renting of machines and quite a bit of leasing.

“We offer them a lease and then have a purchase option to spread the payments out over several years,” Kuhns said.

The Kuhns family enjoys their farm equipment business.

“For more information about Kuhns Equipment, go to www.kuhnsequip.com, or call 217-543-2154, or 217784-4731.

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Avid collector travels across U.S. to purchase Massey-Harris equipment EL PASO, Ill. — When it comes to adding an item to his Massey-Harris collection, Wes Armstrong is eager to make the trip.

“I enjoy going out and picking up stuff at places in different states,” Armstrong said. “Last year I wasn’t supposed to go anywhere, but I was in 21 states picking up equipment.”

Armstrong and his wife, Debbie, have about 75 running Massey-Harris tractors and equipment in their collection.

“On the farm we had quite a few Allis Chalmers and around 2000 we started collecting Massey Harris,” he said. “I’ve been to Maine, California, Virginia and Minnesota — wherever we can find one.”

Some of Armstrong’s favorite tractors in his collection are a 1947 55 on steel, 1938 Pacemaker Orchard and a 1936 Challenger wide front.

“The Challenger is only the third one we know of,” he said. “I found it in California about five years ago, brought it home and got it running.”

There are a couple of GP four-wheel drive tractors in Armstrong’s collection.

“They were the first fourwheel drive tractors built in the ’30s and I just picked one of them up in Maine last year,” Armstrong said.

“From 1930 to ’36, they had flat head engines and from 1937 to ’38 they had overhead valve engines.”

For equipment, the collection includes silage choppers, combines, discs and hay balers.

“I have bunch of plows including a couple of oneway plows,” Armstrong said. “I have a little bit of

everything.”

Armstrong typically travels to eight or 10 shows each year to display some of his equipment, including the Historic Farm Days in Penfield, hosted July 8-11 by the I&I Tractor and Gas Engine Club.

During June, Armstrong traveled to Massey Days in Kentucky and to Indiana for the National Massey Collectors Association show.

“We’re going to take several pieces to Penfield,” Armstrong said. “I’m still trying to decide what to take.”

Part of Armstrong’s collection will also be on display Aug. 26-29 at the Half Century of Progress Show near Rantoul.

“One year I had about 16 pieces at the Half Century show,” he said. “I had two bean combines that we used in the fields for demonstration.”

Antique farm equipment enthusiasts will have the opportunity to see Armstrong’s entire collection in June 2022, when he hosts Massey Days.

“I had it in 2013 and I’m going to have it again next year,” he said. “Last time we hosted Massey Days we had over 200 people.”

Massey Days moves to different farms of collectors each year and some collectors also bring items to display.

“That’s why we have it so people can see all of a guy’s collection,” Armstrong said. “When you go to a show you only get to see one or two of their pieces.”

For more information about the Historic Farm Days, go to www.historicfarmdays.com, or call 217595-5000.

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Take a closer look at B.F. Avery tractors PAXTON, Ill. — Greg Phillips will be one of many B.F. Avery equipment owners displaying tractors at the Historic Farm Days in Penfield.

The show, hosted July 8-11 by the I&I Tractor and Gas Engine Club, will feature three brands of tractors this year — B.F. Avery, Minneapolis Moline and Massey Ferguson.

The 1947 B.F. Avery Model A tractor was purchased by Phillips’ grandfather.

“He bought it at Montgomery Wards in Urbana, so it’s been on this family farm its whole life,” Phillips said.

B.F. Avery tractors were built in Louisville, Kentucky.

“Before World War II, the B.F. Avery company was the world’s largest

manufacturer of horsedrawn farm equipment,” Ph i l l ips sa id. “ T hey weren’t real successful when it came to making engine-powered equipment and the company didn’t recover very well from the war.”

In 1952, the B.F. Avery company was purchased

by Minneapolis Moline.

The Phillips tractor needed some work to get it running.

“It was stored in a corn crib and somebody slipped in there and took the starter and generator,” Phillips said. “I started working on the tractor in 1987 or ’88 and we did a complete overhaul on it, so now it runs as good as it ever did.”

Phillips works with friends to do the restoration work on tractors.

“I do what I can, but I don’t paint so we trade labor,” he said.

The tractor collector likes to collect tractors that look interesting.

“I buy whatever is available at the time,” he said.

“If I think it’s a bargain, I’ll pick it up and drag it home.”

Phillips owns a John Deere A and he has some projects.

“I have an Avery Model V that is about in 800 pieces,” he said. “And I have a Case CC that has been stuck tight for 40 years and is not showing any signs of getting unstuck in the foreseeable future.”

There are two or three more tractors that Phillips would like to add to his collection.

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Displaying his Model A tractor at the Historic Farm Days has been an annual event for Phillips over the past 30-some years.

“It’s the local show that’s close to home,” he said.

“It’s the best fun there is that weekend in central Illinois.”

Members of the B.F. Avery Collectors & Associates group from many states will likely travel to the Historic Farm Days show, Phillips said.

“You never know who is going to show up,” he said.

“The biggest show the Avery group had at Penfield was 64 tractors.”

For more information about the Historic Farm Days, go to www.historicfarmdays.com, or call 217595-5000.

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Former dealership owner competes in tractor pulls CHRISMAN, Ill. — John Craig has worked with Massey Ferguson equipment for more than five decades.

“I started at Chrisman Farm Center when I was 21 years old in 1961,” John Craig said. “The dealership came up for sale in about 1964, so I mortgaged my house and bought it.”

Craig owned and operated the Massey Ferguson dealership until 2018.

“I was lucky to find buyers who were my customers and they kept the same name,” he said.

Owning the farm equipment dealership was a good business for Craig.

“I liked knowing my customers and what I had for sale, it was a good life for me and I’d live it over if I could,” he said. “Being around people has been the best part of my life. My best friends were my customers.”

Over the years, Craig said, he went through lots of situations — both good and bad — at the dealership.

“In 1985, I think we sold one new tractor because that’s how tough farming was in the ’80s,” he said. “It took sacrifices to make it though those years.”

Craig’s involvement with Massey Ferguson tractors continues at local tractor pulls.

“I have a bad habit. I have an 1150 Massey Ferguson that I pull,” he said.

“I go to about eight pulls a year.”

The tractor puller competes in the Hot Farm class.

“The tractors in this class have to look like they are supposed to and have the right motor in them,” Craig said. “It’s a fun hobby. You don’t do it for the money.”

Craig plans to attend the Historic Farm Days in Penfield since the show is featuring Massey Ferguson tractors and equipment. In addition, Craig restored the 1972 1150 Massey Ferguson tractor that will be raffled during the July 8-11 show that is hosted by the I&I Tractor and Gas Engine Club.

“They wanted me to sell my tractor to raffle it off, but I thought I was too young to quit pulling my tractor,” Craig said. “So, I said I’d find an 1150 tractor, fix it up and that’s what I did.”

The 1150 Massey Ferguson has become a popular tractor for collectors.

“It was the world’s first V8 row crop tractor and it was only made for two years, so there are hardly any of them around to collect,” Craig said. “It’s a hobby of mine to find them and fix them up.”

After restoration, Craig said, the raffle tractor looks brand new.

“It’s a beautiful tractor now, but it was junk when I bought it,” he said. “I’ve got tickets on it, so I’d like to win it back.”

The winning ticket for the tractor will be drawn during the show on Sunday, July 11. Each year, the I&I Club sells 300 tickets for the tractor and the popularity of the 1150 Massey Ferguson is obvious since tickets for the tractor are sold out.

“They sold the tickets in two weeks,” Craig said.

“People from 22 states, Canada and the Netherlands sent them money for tickets — it’s that popular of a tractor.”

For more information about the Historic Farm Days, go to www.historicfarmdays.com, or call 217595-5000.

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Collector provides continuing education through magazine URBANA, Ill. — The Prairie Gold Rush magazine has provided stories and information about Minneapolis-Moline and Twin City tractors and equipment to readers for the past 40 years.

“This magazine was the first brand-specific maga zi ne publ ished,” said Cheryl DeLap, who is now owner and editor of the quarterly publication.

“I’ve been the editor for 22 years.”

Published in January, April, July and October, the magazine features information about the history of tractor models.

“It’s a continual education for all of us because we continually find information that was hidden in someone’s barn,” DeLap said.

The Minneapolis Moline Power Implement Co. was established in 1929. Minneapolis-Moline acquired the Avery farm equipment line in 1951, and the White Motor Co. purchased the company in 1972. The last use of the MM badge was in 1974, and the White company is owned by AGCO today.

Any Minneapolis-Moline tractor is rare or at least harder to find, DeLap said, since the company only had 3% of the market in the 1950s.

“It was not one of the biggest manufacturers so the parts are continually becoming harder and harder to find,” she said.

The magazine is a good place to find parts for Minneapolis-Moline tractors.

“There are advertisers who have collected parts from dealerships that were dissolved,” DeLap said.

Cheryl DeLap drives her 1937 YT Minneapolis-Moline, two-cylinder tractor. There were only 25 of these tractors produced and it is one of several tractors the collector plans to display at the Historic Farm Days.

“I always take my Minneapolis-Moline 350 and I’ll probably take a UB or UB Special. And I have a YT tractor that I like to drag around.”

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Sometimes Minneapolis-Moline tractors appear to be the same model, but they really are not. For example, tractors may have different manifolds.

“We have people who do research on build sheets, so we’re pretty good with the year and what was put on that particular tractor for that particular year,” DeLap said. “And we’ve got serial number lists to help people figure out what year the tractor was made.”

In addition to publishing the magazine, DeLap also enjoys collecting tractors and plans to display some of her tractors July 8-11 at the Historic Farm Days in Penfield.

The show, hosted by the I&I Tractor and Gas Engine Club, will feature three brands of tractors this year — B.F. Avery, Minneapolis Moline and Massey Ferguson.

“I always take my Minneapolis-Moline 350 and I’ll probably take a UB or UB Special,” July 8-11 said.

“And I have an YT tractor that I like to drag around.”

DeLap’s collection includes a couple of lawn tractors.

“I really like the 350 and 450 Fiats that were Italian

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made and came through Canada,” she said. “I also have a 1944 NTX Jeep that was made by Minneapolis-Moline.”

The collector has a UB Special that she enjoys entering in fun pulls.

“It’s nothing serious, but once you do it, you get hooked on pulling,” she said. “That’s why I think we get together because we have a good time. It’s that kind of hobby.”

Like most collectors, there are some tractors DeLap would like to add to her collection.

“I like the White Americans that White put out in the ’90s as a heritage series,” she said. “They are pretty tractors.”

The tractors were produced in two sizes — 60 hp and 80 hp.

“The tractors are silver for White, red for Cockshutt, green for Oliver and yellow for Minneapolis-Moline,” she said. “The Minneapolis-Molines were the fewest number of all of those, so they are a little harder to come by.”

For more information about the Historic Farm Days, go to www.historicfarmdays.com, or call 217595-5000.

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Farm history on display at museum: Raffle for miniature combine PENFIELD, Ill. — Raffle tickets for a miniature combine will be sold at the museum located in the former Penfield school on the showgrounds of the Historic Farm Days, set for July 8-11.

“This combine was made by one of our members, Glenn Miller,” said Jane Berbaum, who is co-chairwoman of the museum with Betty Bensyl. “He has done several of these for us over the years depending on the brand we’re featuring.”

A large variety of farm-related items, ranging from hand tools to implements, fill two floors of the building that once was a place for learning for students from the Penfield area.

“Glenn brings a selection of toy models to display in the cabinets in the museum,” Berbaum said. “The toys are fantastic, and his

wife, Mary, helps with our household exhibit.”

Most of the items in the museum have been donated, and some are on loan from members of the I&I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club.

“Sometimes items appear and I may not even know what they are or who donated it,” Berbaum said.

“So, then I do a little Sherlock Holmes work.”

Occasionally, Berbaum will hold up an item at an I&I club meeting to ask members if they can identify an item or how it was used.

“It is a never-ending process for our museum workers to catalog the items that come in to document who was the owner and a little information about the piece,” Berbaum said.

Visitors have the opportunity to see two very spe-

This general store is part of the museum on the grounds. cial items in the museum that are on loan from the Smithsonian Institution.

“The first one we got is the 1961 International Harvester HT-341 Turbine Tractor,” Berbaum said.

“The next year, we got the 1903 Hart-Parr tractor.”

In addition to the two tractors, the former gym features a couple of ad-

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ditional tractors, as well as larger items such as a sheller, hay equipment and a couple of buggies.

“The stairway to the sec-

ond floor goes to the small farming items,” Berbaum said. “We display tools that might have been used for farming from the 1920s to ’50s.”

The four former classrooms on the main level of the school have been transformed into exhibit areas by the club members.

“Our household exhibit has an old-fashioned kitchen area with several washing machines,” Berbaum said.

“During the ’60s there were colored refrigerators and stoves and a couple of those pieces have been donated to us,” Berbaum said.

“We will be highlighting a

pink stove with an oven in the household exhibit.”

The ladies auxiliary of the I&I club staff this area of the museum during the show, and each year they like to showcase something different.

“The household exhibit is going to feature ladies’ and men’s hats, and there will also be some hat boxes on display,” Berbaum said.

“I have a few of my mother’s hats that are the pill box hats with a veil,” Berbaum said. “They are nothing real fancy, but they are the ones she wore to church.”

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Barbed wire was first invented by Lucien Smith of Kent, Ohio, and later modified and patented by Joseph Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois.

Step back into time at the McCormick-Deering International store at the I&I Farm Museum during the Historic Farm Days.

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of the museum during the show.

“The club members like to gather there because that room has a nice cool breeze,” Berbaum said.

In the corn room of the museum, visitors will see items like planters, seed corn sacks, signs and shellers.

The I&I club uses the former cafeteria in the school

Century of Progress show since day one,” Berbaum said. “There is lots of stuff to look at in that room.”

Visitors to the show also have the opportunity to

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Museum displays include memorabilia from the Penfield school including a grade school band uniform.

“That’s at least 50 to 60 years old, and we have it displayed on a child mannequin.” Berbaum said.

Another room in the museum is a replica of an International Harvester store.

“It has shelving, and there are displays of all kinds of IH things,” Berbaum said. “I remember going with my dad to buy parts at a store like it.”

The members of the IH Collectors Club Illinois Chapter 10 staff this area

tour the former Penfield Methodist Church on the showgrounds.

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Portraying Abraham Lincoln goes beyond appearance CARLINVILLE, Ill. — There’s much more to portraying Abraham Lincoln than just growing a beard, donning the trademark stovepipe hat and wearing period clothing.

Randy Duncan of Carlinville has been portraying the 16th president for over 20 years and believes it’s just as important to comprehensively study the characteristics of the man himself beyond biographical details.

“People don’t know the real history. They know the tiny bit of history. They see Lincoln on a penny, on a $5 bill. Exactly how much people know is up for question and it seems to be getting less all the time. The

amount of history that they learn about Lincoln in school may be a couple of pages in history class and that’s it,” Duncan said.

“But to encounter Lincoln’s personality itself, his sense of humor, his sense of duty to the country, to his ability to quote big patches of literature from memory, when you know something of the person, then the history means something more to you. It becomes more precious. And the creation of our country and the perpetuation of it should be precious to us. The more of the history we know, the more precious it can be to us.”

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“I’ve been asked a couple of different times by some younger kids, say junior high age, about Abraham Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus,” he said. “If you’re going to a casual, lighthearted sort of thing where you just expect to talk to people in general, shake hands and have a relaxed time, that does not mean something like that won’t come up, because it can and it does.”

He said another issue he’s been asked is regarding the Native American uprising in Minnesota in 1862. More than 300 Santee Sioux were found guilty and sen-

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Maury said the number of vendors is about the same as in previous years.

“I have a few that aren’t coming that got out of the business because there weren’t any shows last year and I have a few new ones coming,” Maury noted.

Many vendors have been regulars since the I&I Antique Tractor & Gas Engine Club’s show began.

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“We’re probably going to have at least 150 vendors. It seems like you see something different every time you walk through there,” said Barry Maury, one of the vendor coordinators.

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In his thorough research, Duncan was asked if there were any surprises he discovered about Lincoln.

“I would say not surprised, but pleased to read how much pardoning he did during the Civil War. As president, you have the power to pardon anybody at your own discretion and he pardoned so many who were convicted of falling asleep on their post or desertion in battle and things like that,” Duncan noted.

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Potato plots a popular attraction for visitors at I&I show PENFIELD, Ill. — The potato plots return to this year’s Historic Farm Days.

“We planted 350 pounds of Kennebec, Yukon yellow and red Idaho four or five days before Good Friday,” said Kenny Knight, who has coordinated the potato plot planting and upkeep on the I&I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club grounds the past 10 years.

“The biggest job for us is cutting them up to get them ready to plant. We do that

here on our farm, bag them up and take them to the site at Penfield. We have a little lawn mower that we put a plow on and trench the field and drop the potatoes in there and cover them up.

We’ve got it down to a science.”

The 50-by-100-foot plot needs to be managed for insects and weeds just like any other field crop.

“We have potato beetles that get in there and we sprayed them in early June.

If they don’t get sprayed the bug eats the bloom and then there’s no potato. We have a little cultivator to cultivate the field when the potatoes emerge. We also fertilize them,” Knight said.

The field is located in the southeast corner of the I&I Club grounds across the bridge and up on the hill.

“During the Historic Farm Days show we’ll dig maybe two rows in the

morning and two rows in the afternoon with a potato digger. Each kind of potato is planted in its own row so visitors can get whatever they want. There are 11 rows this year,” Knight

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“We give them away. We will furnish sacks for people.

It’s one of the bigger draws of I&I. That’s why so many people come up. Our potatoes this year just look super.”

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Old-fashioned medicine show entertains, 1800’s style PENFIELD, Ill. — Historic Farm Days will be a “maven of music, magic and mirth” with an old-fashioned traveling medicine show July 8-11.

Sanford Lee and Associates will bring history alive with a 19th century medicine show featuring music from the 1800s, Civil War songs, cowboy songs, magic and juggling.

“We’ve been doing this show for 35 years. I’m a lover of American history and a lover of old folk music and I was able to put it all together and make a living at it. It’s a show that appeals to kids and seniors and every age in between,” said Sanford Lee, known as Professor Farquar in the show, performing alongside Mary Kathryn Lee as Miss Polecat Annie.

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Lee has been a history buff since he was a youngster and believes it is important to show the real story behind traveling medicine shows.

“People have kind of gotten the wrong idea of what medicine shows were because from movies and television they always think of the medicine show Sanford Lee, known as Professor Farquar, performs alongside Mary Kathryn Lee as Miss Polecat Annie in an old-fashioned trav- huckster as a quack selling a dubious product. In actueling medicine show that will be featured at Historic Farm Days. ality they were legitimate ce participation, teaching cluding fairs, festivals, his- businessmen. They travthem juggling, which is a toric sites, wild west shows, eled all over the country,” nice pre-show opportunity, concert halls, amusement he explained. and between shows we do a little close-up magic and COME AND SEE US AT THE SHOW! teach a few magic tricks along the way.”

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Trucks on display at Historic Farm Days PENFIELD, Ill. — The trucking industry has been a critical cog in U.S. expansion since freight was first moved by horsedrawn wagons.

Part of that history will be featured at Historic Farm Days when trucks from various eras will be on display, hosted by the Illiana Gear Jammers, formerly the American Truck Historical Society Kickapoo Chapter.

“We’ve been to the Historical Farm Days show for over 10 years,” said Terry Ingram, a truck show coordinator. “We’re now an independent club with basically the same members with membership basically from eastern Illinois and western

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“It’s a great show. I encourage everybody to go and also encourage everybody to go to the Half Century of Progress because you never see any of that stuff around this area. We don’t do much of a show at the Half Century, but we tell everybody they need go.”

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Bruce Cline of Remember When Photo Booth Co. is making the final touches on a 6-by-12-foot air-conditioned trailer that will be located next to the I&I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club’s Agricultural History Museum in the former Penfield Grade School during the July 8-11 show.

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Knight brings classic M-M tractors to life POTOMAC, Ill. — Minneapolis-Moline was the tractor of choice when Kenny Knight was a young lad on the family farm near Bismarck.

Fast-forward to the late 1980s, early 1990s when Knight attended one of the early Historic Farm Days at Middle Fork River Forest Preserve north of Penfield and noticed no Minneapolis-Molines at the show.

“Those tractors we farmed with were still in a sealed up shed over at Bismarck where I grew up. Daddy had three of them,” Knight reflected. “I have all three of them now. I have two in the museum here on the farm and the other in another building. That’s how I got started.”

Since those first efforts of refurbishing classic tractors, Knight’s interest rapidly grew.

“I knew some people who had some tractors like a friend, Dean Piatt (of Gifford). Dean had about 15 tractors and I painted about all of them but one. I painted for 50 years and after a while you get

that knack. In fact, (Grandson) Dylan wants to do that for a living and he’s pretty good,” Knight said.

“Still nowadays you won’t see a lot of Minneapolis-Molines at shows, even Masseys. It’s John Deere and International.”

Knight had a sharp-looking 1970 Minneapolis-Moline M670 parked outside when AgriNews visited him June 7. Parked next to it was a Massey-Harris 44 from the late 1940s, early 1950s, a 1967 Minneapolis-Moline 108 lawnmower and a Massey miniature tractor made by Marvin Hari of Cissna Park.

“Dean Piatt passed away Dec. 27, 2020, and the MinneapolisMoline M670 was his tractor.

His uncle had previously owned it, and Dean always said that I would end up with it when he was gone. I had painted it originally probably 10 years ago. So, we brought it home and just refreshed the frame and stuff. We didn’t do any of the sheet metal,” Knight said.

Kenny Knight (from left) sits on his refurbished Massy-Harris 44, his son, Tim, is on a 1970 Minneapolis-Moline M670, while Kenny’s grandson, Dylan, shows a 1967 Minneapolis-Moline 108 lawn mower. These and other tractors from Kenny’s collection will be among those featured at Historic Farm Days.

“I also have some Twin City tractors which are forerunners to Minneapolis-Moline. Some of them will say ‘M and M’ Twin City on the tractors. Before that they would have been either straight Twin City or straight Minneapolis. I have a little bit of that, too.

“It’s an art to bring the tractors back to life. I probably have 15plus tractors that I’ve restored.”

A triple-header of tractor brands will be featured at Historic Farm Days July 8-11 at Penfield. Massey Ferguson is the scheduled feature for 2021

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Sanctioned tractor pulls July 9-10 PEN F I EL D, I l l. — Souped-up and regular classic tractors will be featured in the Historic Farm Days tractor pulls.

Illinois Tractor Pulling A ssociat ion-sa nct ioned pulls are Friday, July 9, beginning at 5 p.m. Classes are 5,500-pound antique, 5,500-pound classic, 6,850pound pro farm and 9,500pound pro farm.

Illiana Pullers Association-sanctioned pulls on Saturday, July 10, beginning at 5 p.m., feature pro farm tractors, outlaw tractors and farm stock tractors.

Andy Buhr and Derek Harms are coordinating the tractor pulls.

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John Craig enjoys competing with his 1150 Massey Ferguson tractor in the Hot Farm Class at tractor pulls. The former owner of Chrisman Farm Center has been involved with Massey Ferguson equipment for his entire career.

Buhr said there will be some local pulls with tractors displayed at the show on Thursday, as well as show tractors pulling simultaneously with the sanctioned pullers Friday

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“We’ll have the show tractors next to the sanctioned pulls. We’ll have ‘fast’ stuff on one side and ‘slow’ stuff on the other side,” Buhr said.

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Tractor drive, drawing continued in 2020 despite show’s cancellation PENFIELD, Ill. — The Historic Farm Days show was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, but historic tractor enthusiasts were still able to enjoy at least a slice of joy.

“Since the show was canceled in 2020, we did have a tractor drive on Sunday, July 12, the last day the show would have been, and we had approximately 120 tractors in the tractor drive,” said Chuck Stelter, I&I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club president.

Following the tractor drive, I&I Club event organizers held a drawing for a Minneapolis-Moline G-1000 Wheatland tractor. All 300 tickets were sold for the drawing.

The I&I Club currently has between 350 and 400 members.

“We’re always looking for new members,” Stelter added.

Preserving History The I&I Club started in 1976 at the Bill White farm, south of Alvin. The five founding members of the

club were Bill White, Harvey Phillips and Dave, Daniel and Richard Allison.

The club was started for the preservation of early farming methods and equipment and the rural lifestyle.

During the early years, antique equipment shows and bragging rights tractor pulls were held at Bill White’s farm. The club also set up displays at area shopping malls, county fairs, parades and other festivals.

In 1986, the club members approached the Champaign County Forest Preserve about using an area at the Middle Fork River Forest Preserve north of Penfield to have the annual show.

The land was cleared and wheat was sown that fall for the 1987 show.

The 1987 Historic Farm Days Show was the first one held at the Middle Fork River Forest Preserve. It was a two-day show. There was wheat c o mbi n i n g , plow i n g , threshing and antique

equipment displays.

Over the years, the show grew to include a saw mill, blacksmith shop, tractor pulls and parts vendors. In 1992, the show expanded to three days.

In 1996, the club was able to buy the Penfield Improvement Association property, the former Penfield grade school and 12 additional acres — 24 acres total. This was done through the support of club members and friends in the community who held fundraisers, donated and loaned money to the club.

The 1996 show was supposed to be held at the Middle Fork River Forest Preserve. County Road 22 was under construction and was not going to be finished in time for the show.

Ten days before the show, the decision was made to move the show to the grounds at Penfield.

The ground was cleared, the school was cleaned up and painted and all of the equipment was moved from the forest preserve to the

new show grounds.

In 1996 and 1997, the school was renovated. Over the years, other buildings had been added to the show grounds: new club hall, sawmill building, band pavilion, pork palace, tractor pull track and grandstands, blacksmiths shop, north shed, feature brand building, the Methodist church, log cabin and the Maplewood one-room schoolhouse.

In 2001, Historic Farm Days expanded to four days.

The club has faced some adversity over the years: In 1997, the PIA building

burned and was replaced by the new club hall, and in 2004, the north shed was destroyed and the tractor pull grandstand and the announcer’s booth were damaged by a tornado. The north shed was then rebuilt.

Over the years, the club grounds have grown to approximately 120 acres.

The club operates the Agricultural History Museum in the former Penfield grade school. It is open March through October from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the second Saturday of the month.

The museum features

antique tractors and machinery, antique tools, household displays, the corn room, the IH room and anything pertaining to early farm and county life.

The museum also features two tractors on loan from the Smithsonian Institute: the IH HT-340 gas turbine tractor and the Hart Parr #3.

The club is on an eightyear rotation of antique tractors and equipment: John Deere, JI Case, Allis Chalmers, Oliver, International Harvester, Minneapolis Moline, Massey H a r r i s/Ferg u son a nd Ford.

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