Peter L. Swartz sitting on pipe in which grain is blown from thresher. Horse drawn wagon loaded with sheaves, thresher, and straw stack behind barn are shown.
Two men pitching sheaves of grain into thresher. Straw is blown by thresher into stack in background. The clean grain is blown through the pipe on which Peter L. Swartz is sitting.
Men loading grain sheaves from wagon onto conveyor of belt driven thresher. Team of horses hitched to wagon. Another man tends bagger. Bags of grain to be loaded onto truck.
Threshing crew poses in front of thresher with wing feeder. One man holding poker is probably steam engine fireman. Man fourth from left is probably Jayson Swartz.
The operator of the steam engine powering the thresher stands on the engine platform. Another man is standing on the water wagon. A third wagon is parked at the site, which is on the north side of the dairy barn at Cornfalfa Farms.1
Thresher delivers straw directly to press forming bales that are delivered directly to barn on Cornfalfa Farms. Early engine drives baler. Sacks of grain loaded on wagon.
