Southern Indiana Living Magazine - Sept / Oct 2023
September / October Issue of Southern Indiana Living
September / October Issue of Southern Indiana Living
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Flashback Photo<br />
Plentiful Harvest<br />
Corydon, IN<br />
1952<br />
// Photo courtesy of the Frederick Porter Griffin Center, Harrison County Public Library<br />
The above photo was taken in the summer of 1952 at Edwin Miller’s farm about four miles east of Corydon,<br />
<strong>Indiana</strong> on Highway 62. A few men are operating a threshing machine to harvest wheat on a local farm. A team<br />
of two horses can be seen as well as a large truck. According to library records, threshing machines were not as<br />
common in Harrison County in 1952 as they once were, but a few farmers continued to use them instead of the<br />
more modern combine.<br />
Library records indicate that the machine in this picture was owned by Kenneth L. Brown, who along with<br />
Miller and others threshed approximately sixty acres of wheat on Miller’s farm. The acreage yielded 1760<br />
bushels for an average yield of 29.5 bushels per acre.<br />
<strong>Southern</strong> <strong>Indiana</strong> <strong>Living</strong> • <strong>Sept</strong>/<strong>Oct</strong> <strong>2023</strong> • 7
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