Current Issue: February 2009
The Coldest Harvest
By Jerry Schleicher
Ice: Today it’s as close as the automatic ice maker in your kitchen. But throughout the 19th century, long before the advent of electric refrigeration, ice was a commodity to be harvested just like corn or cotton.
Also this Month:
Making Things Better
By Bill Vossler
He invented John Deere Roll-O-Matic front wheels, patented two automobiles, a tractor truck, the 1-man power road grader used the world over, the jet-propeller popular on today's watercraft, the stick control for the M46 General Patton tank, automatic automobile headlight dimmer and magnetic door catch - more than 400 patents, half of which were agriculture-related.
The Day the Cavalry Arrived
By Dale Geise
Is it possible that tens of millions of ears hanging from Iowa cornstalks were once taken, one at a time, by hand?