Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Great sunset
On the road
Friday, October 26, 2012
The pumpkin carving has begun
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
A "Corn" ucopia of Fun!!
Posted by Sarah
This past Saturday Wagner Farm our annual Corn Harvest Festival. Over 2300 people enjoyed picking corn, taking wagon rides, and making harvest crafts. This year also featured a new machine demonstration. The boys had the silage machine working and got to see how silage is made. Christine was also on hand making her beautiful brooms. And just like every year, our pumpkins were in hot demand! Thanks again to our fabulous staff and volunteers for helping make this event such a success every year!
This past Saturday Wagner Farm our annual Corn Harvest Festival. Over 2300 people enjoyed picking corn, taking wagon rides, and making harvest crafts. This year also featured a new machine demonstration. The boys had the silage machine working and got to see how silage is made. Christine was also on hand making her beautiful brooms. And just like every year, our pumpkins were in hot demand! Thanks again to our fabulous staff and volunteers for helping make this event such a success every year!
Friday, October 19, 2012
The pumpkin shuffle
One of the services that the Glenview Clovers 4-H club does is help unload the weekly pumpkin shipment to the farm. I must say, it is so nice to have an extra 40 hands to make the job go a little quicker.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the rings on the tree
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
A Programmer Fieldtrip
Posted by Sarah
The programmers at Wagner Farm teach hundreds of school kids every year. But, every now and then, we like to take field trips too! This year we visited Primrose Farm in St. Charles Illinois. This is a 1930's farm with many similarities to our own site. Jon and Kirk, the resident farmers, were kind enough to give us a tour of the farm, introduced us to their livestock, and even give us a wagon ride. For those of you who follow the blog, this is the permanent home of April, our resident milking cow. This is also the home of one of our older draft horses, Doc. We all had a great time and enjoyed the beautiful fall day!
Monday, October 15, 2012
Silage chopping
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Jack's new find
posted by Todd
For those of you who are around the Farm you likely know Carlin's husband Jack. He recently came across something that will soon be residing in his garage in Glenview, a rare Economy hit and miss engine. I don't think that I would be going out on a limb to say that there aren't many of them in Glenview. I hope that one day soon Jack will bring his engine to a Wagner event and do some demonstrations with it.
To learn a little more about the engine, Jack typed up some information about his new purchase.
Hit-n-miss Engine
Small stationary gasoline engines provided power for a multitude of tasks on farms from about the 1900's to the 1930's. Even washing machines were powered by small gas engines. They fell out of use as the countryside became electrified permitting the use of electric motors. The hit-n-miss engine is so named because it does not fire in each cycle, doing so only when the governor slows down. It has a characteristic whoosh,whoosh,whoosh,pop, whoosh sound. These are four-stroke, single cylinder engines with typically two fly-wheels, and a pulley that would use a flat belt to drive whatever needed power.
Pictured is a Hercules Economy model E 1.5 horsepower hit-n-miss engine produced in Evansville, IN in 1915. It was manufactured by Hercules but sold under the Economy label by none other than Sears Roebuck.
For those of you who are around the Farm you likely know Carlin's husband Jack. He recently came across something that will soon be residing in his garage in Glenview, a rare Economy hit and miss engine. I don't think that I would be going out on a limb to say that there aren't many of them in Glenview. I hope that one day soon Jack will bring his engine to a Wagner event and do some demonstrations with it.
Hit-n-miss Engine
Small stationary gasoline engines provided power for a multitude of tasks on farms from about the 1900's to the 1930's. Even washing machines were powered by small gas engines. They fell out of use as the countryside became electrified permitting the use of electric motors. The hit-n-miss engine is so named because it does not fire in each cycle, doing so only when the governor slows down. It has a characteristic whoosh,whoosh,whoosh,pop, whoosh sound. These are four-stroke, single cylinder engines with typically two fly-wheels, and a pulley that would use a flat belt to drive whatever needed power.
Pictured is a Hercules Economy model E 1.5 horsepower hit-n-miss engine produced in Evansville, IN in 1915. It was manufactured by Hercules but sold under the Economy label by none other than Sears Roebuck.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
A new use for the shed
The trees are gone
This week the tree crew came in and removed all of the Ash trees that were infected with the Emerald Ash Borer. It is shocking how different the place looks. With the help of Ken, the GPD landscape architect we are making plans for a large tree planting plan for 2013.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Engaged !!!
Broom corn harvest starts
We spent the day with smiles on our faces and working hard in the NSSED garden plot bringing in the broom corn. The plot was about 25' x 50' and yielded enough material to hopefully make 20 plus brooms. The great thing about the broom corn is, no matter how much of the seed the birds and other critters eat it doesn't change the amount of straw that we get for making brooms. One can not say as much for the Wagner corn field that has been hit pretty hard by the deer and geese. Now that we are harvested we will let the straw dry and then start the de-seeding process.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Texting kills prize winning cows
Last week was the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin. Usually a handful of us make it to the show. On the way home one of the Jersey winners had some really bad luck when he was involved in an accident with a texting driver. The news story from Madison follows. Remember to put the phone down when driving.
A 26-year-old woman who looked at a text message while driving on Saturday night in Madison, Wisconsin, crashed into a cattle trailer carrying eight prize-winning dairy cows, and as a result one of the cows was killed, according to news reports.
Police cited the woman, Katherine De Felice, of McFarland, Wisconsin, for inattentive driving after she “allegedly” caused the accident that resulted in the death of a prize-winning cow that was being driven home from the World Dairy Expo, Nick Heynen writes for the Wisconsin State Journal.
Police said De Felice was heading east on the Beltline at about 9:45 p.m. when she looked at a text message on her cell phone and swerved to the left, into the cattle trailer (which was also heading east), causing it to crash into a ditch and overturn. The collision caused the trailer to begin swaying and the driver of pickup pulling it was unable to maintain control, police said. The eight prize-winning cows in the trailer were valued at around $500,000, AP writes,
A 26-year-old woman who looked at a text message while driving on Saturday night in Madison, Wisconsin, crashed into a cattle trailer carrying eight prize-winning dairy cows, and as a result one of the cows was killed, according to news reports.
Police cited the woman, Katherine De Felice, of McFarland, Wisconsin, for inattentive driving after she “allegedly” caused the accident that resulted in the death of a prize-winning cow that was being driven home from the World Dairy Expo, Nick Heynen writes for the Wisconsin State Journal.
Police said De Felice was heading east on the Beltline at about 9:45 p.m. when she looked at a text message on her cell phone and swerved to the left, into the cattle trailer (which was also heading east), causing it to crash into a ditch and overturn. The collision caused the trailer to begin swaying and the driver of pickup pulling it was unable to maintain control, police said. The eight prize-winning cows in the trailer were valued at around $500,000, AP writes,
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
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