Some eye candy

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Wayne
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Some eye candy

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Saw these this morning on SMOKSTACK. Could the power mill be an Elgin Hummer?
Windmills 1889.jpg
Windmills 2.jpg
Windmills 3.jpg
Is the Monitor the one built in Auburn In.?
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RPinAZ
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Thanks Wayne. Those were great.

RP
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jbar
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See that one sign in the background says fertilizer. I didn't think they were fertilizing back then but I must have been wrong.
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Wayne
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Re: Some eye candy

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The y had been making fertilizer from bones for awhile, plus manure from cleaning out the barn. The first patent for a manure spreader was 1875, and fertilizer spreaders 1890's.
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Windcatcher530 Dan
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The thing that amazes me is how beautiful those old original horse drawn manure spreaders were they had fancy lettering and pinstripes and bright colors just to spread Crap !!
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