Harvest Tales - Rice County 04
Harvest stories submitted by Kansans for the online exhibit, Wheat People.
Submit your own at kshs.kansasmuseum@ks.gov.

John Stumps
Photos of Headers, Threshing Machines, and Early Combines

Cutting wheat on the Stumps farm near the town of Bushton. Push-binders (pushed rather than pulled) could be used for either binding or heading.

Three push-binders being used as headers.

John Stumps threshing wheat near Bushton, 1918.

John Stumps threshing wheat near Bushton, 1918.

Stumps' Case tractor and threshing machine, 1920s.

John Stumps' tractor-pulled Case combine, 1928, in final four photos.






