Couple Wheat Harvest Pics Plus Several For KFD68

Here are several not so great pictures taken this afternoon....We took a little drive about 15-20 miles NW of us up to a 5-6 square mile area of some of the better farmland in Western MO..The fields are large and very gently rolling there..

We had had 2" of rain this week and from the looks of things they received very little up that way..Wheat harvest was about 40% done and people were still dusting in early beans..The corn was hurting..

I intended to take more pictures but the combines were all too far away and then all my camera batteries went dead..


1st picture..A friends R-62 Gleaner about 1/4th mile from the road...I was zoomed out but he was still pretty far away...A custom combiner I know was about 1/4th mile behind him with a 9610 JD..

2nd picture...My friends N-7 Gleaner that must have been broken down..Hes had it for a long time..They have a 12 row corn head for it..

3rd picture...The custom combiners 7720 JD which must have also broken down..They had 3 semis and two 10 wheelers there so the wheat must be doing good..

4th picture....An old one room school up in that area..

5th-6th pictures for KFD68-The old mill on the Cottonwood River at Cedar Point,Kansas...They are doing nothing with it and judging by the huge crack in it,its soon going to fall in the river..What a shame...I was there the wrong time of the day to get good pictures..

7th picture-Some are trying to save the mill...

When my renter cuts the wheat on my place I'll try and get some pictures if I'm around...

Its a such a shame that these historic buildings are allowed to fall down. Are they under a protected sceme by the government over there?

Here they are very desirable as conversions into up-market houses by rich people; or they get restored as working exhibits.

Heres one in Kansas that they finally wised up and
saved..My parents grew up in the Lindsborg,KS area...From
1960-1987 my Moms family had their yearly reunion in the
park across from the old mill....Before it was ever a
museum I,my brother,and our cousins explored it every
year..I found a record book in there showing where my
Grandfather had flour ground there in the early 1900"s..

Its beyond me why they dont try to save the old mill at
Cedar Point,KS because there are precious few old mills
even left in Kansas..
Old Mill