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The Musical and Agricultural Heritage of Eric Campbell
Location: Farm of Eric and Evelyn Campbell

 
The Campbells' oat field, ready to be cut and bound for threshing
1 of 102 		Eric and Evelyn operating the grain binder, pulled by a 1953 Massey-Harris tractor
2 of 102 		Eric James Campbell, farmer, fiddler, machinist, maple syrup maker, community event instigator.
3 of 102 		Eric explains the workings of the grain binder
4 of 102 		The bill hook, an essential element of the binder mechanism
5 of 102 		Golden oats; food for people and animals
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Eric hauls the oats from the field to the threshing mill
7 of 102 		Eric Campbell, organizer of the Steam-Powered Threshing Bees
8 of 102 		the Favorite Thresher
9 of 102 		Thresher view
10 of 102 		Bagging oats at the end of the threshing process
11 of 102 		The Case 45 Hp portable steam engine, with engineer Arnold Febig
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The Sawyer-Massey portable steam engine in action at the Threshing Bee
13 of 102 		One of two McCormick-Deering threshing mills in action at the first Threshing Bee, in 1992
14 of 102 		A long belt separates the engine from the very flammable chaff pile
15 of 102 		Dr. Rogers forks sheaves into the thresher
16 of 102 		Forking the sheaves of oats into the thresher
17 of 102 		Bagging the grain at the 1994 Steam-Powered Threshing Bee
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