- Dates
- circa 1950 – circa 1959
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- agricultureheritagehistoriography
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
This Beaver Island Net historical-site page records a captioned account of early-1950s oats harvesting and threshing. It identifies the machinery as a cooperative purchase by island farmers and says it moved from farm to farm for only a few years before farming ceased to be viable as a way of life.
Evidence and limits
The page supplies a valuable, attributed local account of technique and cooperation, but not the cooperative’s formal name, membership, purchase date, finances, equipment specifications, number of farms, or an exact date when farming ceased to be viable. Named individuals are retained as source context; this page alone does not establish their identity, occupation, or ownership.
See also
Sources
- A caption-like retrospective account names Joe Schmidt, Lawrence Vesty, and Bill Ricksgers and describes oats, a threshing machine cooperatively purchased by island farmers, and an early-1950s period of use. It is not a farm census, ownership record, employment record, or dated cooperative minute.
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Net, “The Farm Life””, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/beaver-island-net-farm-life/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Net, “The Farm Life,” local-history page, circa 1999–2017..
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