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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

Lennie Fisbeck raises the wastewater screening basket at the wastewater treatment plant Monday morning, Aug. 16. Flushable wet wipes can be seen in the basket, which city workers dispose of when they clean the basket. Most plugs and clogs in Holyoke are due to the flushing of flushable wet wipes, which are not biodegradable. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications

This 1936 Farmall F-12 tractor at the Phillips County Museum could certainly get things done. In addition to completing farm work, it also got second place in its class in a 1986 tractor pull. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications