A wheat header barge and crew are pictured in 1918 on Ed Gansemer’s farm 3 miles south and 1 mile west of Paoli. Headers were pushed by six horses and would remove the heads and elevate them into the header barge. Header barges were pulled by two horses and had two operators — one to drive the horses and one to move the wheat in the barge. When it was full, they would pitch it off onto a stack where another crew member was positioned to stack it. Wheat would stay in the stack until it had gone through a “sweat” of six to eight weeks. Then it was put through a threshing machine pulled by a steam engine. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin' into the Past
Five Years Ago
Aug. 25, 2016
Holyoke City Council approved the purchase of a new Taser body camera system for Holyoke Police Department at the Aug. 16 meeting.