Farmers Weekly Review

Tired of the heat? Maybe this will help. Here’s a shot of the Seggebruch Farm with the hog shed in the background, under a pile…

Rodney Bettenhausen shares this photo taken by his grandmother, Sylvia Bettenhausen of rural Manhattan, of Elmer Bettenhausen driving a John Deere corn picker taken October…

A tornado in May 1917 devastated many structures in rural Will County, including this one on the Seggebruch Farm in Crete. The barn was later…

Rodney Bettenhausen shares this photo taken by his grandmother, Sylvia Bettenhausen of rural Manhattan, in 1926 of Fred Bettenhausen (standing) of rural Manhattan with his…

Fred Seggebruch, right, and Walter Seggebruch, second from right, show off their Hereford steer to a delegation from Italy that visited their Crete farm on…

Corn picking was a lot different 80-some years ago. Kathy Forsythe shares this photo of her father, David, picking corn with a Case steel wheel…

Kathy Forsythe of Manhattan shares this photo of a teacher picking up students for school on Old Chicago Road, now on former Arsenal property, around…

This picture shows Baskerville cattle on the way to the scale at the old Chicago Union Stockyards in 1939. Benjamin Baskerville and his son, Walter,…

Kathy Forsythe shares this picture from 1910 or so of her mother and aunts, and grandparents — Christian and Emma Luhring — and her great-grandmother…

Elmer Halfeldt shares a picture showing breakdowns in the field, and having to wait hours for a John Deere rep, are nothing new. He was…