Roseau Times-Region - Serving Roseau County for over 100 Years - The Official Roseau County Newspaper

Oofdah, how production agriculture has changed in the last fifty or sixty years! Grpa pulling the A-6 Case combine with its four cylinder Wisconsin air cooled engine around with the WD-45 Allis Chalmers tractor is now only a memory. With no cab on the tractor, unless the wind was perfect you were fed an almost constant diet of dust. Cutting with the twelve foot pull type swather was really covering ground after a summer of cutting hay with a six foot mower. Grpa and later me almost always had a dish towel tied around our face so you didn’t breathe in all the dust. The forty bushel grain...