Historical Expo - Beekman`s Homemade Ice Cream

the
Hybrid Corn Pioneers
3RD BI-ANNUAL • 2013
Historical
Expo
STEVE & NADINE KENKEL’S FARM
2040 Ironwood Rd., Earling, IA
(2 mi. east & 1-3/4 mi. north of Earling)
Admission to Expo Free Will Donation
Proceeds Ovarian Cancer Research
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
AUG. 24-25 • 9 AM-5 PM
EIGHTEEN
SHELBY COUNTY
SEED CORN COMPANIES
Tour the Museum’s
Historical Exhibits:
See
Working
CORN
MACHINERY
EXHIBITS
• Hybrid Corn Pioneer sack collection dating to 1926
• Shelby County - “Hybrid Corn Capital of Iowa.”
• 1860’s wooden 2-row corn planter built by George W.
Brown, “The inventor of the corn planter.”
• Earliest known patented cylinder corn sheller, Circa 1848
• Vast collection of corn planters from 1850s - 1950s
• Hundreds of cloth seed corn sacks & signs
• Rare antique corn items & machinery: walking plows,
shellers, binders, slicers, grinders, graders, husking hooks
& pegs, check wire & stakes, choppers.
2012
NATIONAL
CORN HUSKING
CHAMPIONS
picking corn by
hand both days
Food
Concessions
Beekman’s
Homemade
Ice Cream!
1 Corn Plot Tour:
of a ”
kind
View Three Centuries of Corn
PLOT:
RIDES &
CORN
SHELLING
for the
kids!
Wire Check planted in 40” rows,
3 seeds per hill
1800’s:
Reids Yellow Dent
(Open Pollinated Variety) 1847
1900’s:
SEE A
BLACKSMITH
IN ACTION
US-13 (First Hybrid Variety) 1930’s
2000’s:
Dekalb 62-54 (Triple Stack Variety) Today
WIRE CHECK
PLANTING
Demonstrations!
Tractor ride
SATURDAY, AUG. 24, 2013
TRACTOR RIDE FROM HARLAN TO FARM
Arriving at Kenkel Farm late morning
Sponsored by NISHNA VALLEY ANTIQUE TRACTOR CLUB
For Information on tractor ride, contact Lance Scott 712-249-6178.
STEVE & NADINE KENKEL’S FARM, 2040 Ironwood Rd., Earling, IA
(2 mi. east & 1-3/4 mi. north of Earling) • email: [email protected]
For additional information, please contact Steve Kenkel 712-579-1320