Montgomery Ward sold a grinder mixer???

Tim(nj)

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I was browsing eBay and came across a 1964 farm catalog. In it was the 'new for 64' Wards grinder-mixer. It had a double chain elevator intake feeder. Who made it? Can't imagine they sold many.
 
I have never saw one in operation, but I remember one on display in the local Ward's farm store department. In fact I considered buying it, but decided on a different used one. I can't remember who made it though.
 
I still have a Wards "Farm and Ranch" catalog form the late 60's/early 70's around someplace. They used sell a LOT of farm stuff.
 
Yes, Monkey Wards sold farm equipment. Sears did too under the David Bradley name. If I have seen any Wards stuff at the auctions I do not remember, but I have several Bradley hay wagons in the yard here. Not as popular as some other gears, maybe there is a perception that they are light weight, I don't know. I have had 125+ small squares on one with a heavy ash flat rack and pulled it around the field, thru woodchuck holes, and up and down hills. They are good.
 
Sears and MW sold private labeled equipment purchased from many manufacturers. Both sold the Electric Wheel Co wagon gears. A one time they sold the Case-Helix grinder. Somewhere in these company's must have been a large dept to keep track of all the purchased items.
 
I was aware of Sears and MW farm equipment. Just never knew about the grinder mixer. We have a block of stanchions (now unused) in the old dairy barn that are Wards. All the others are Jamesway so not sure how exactly that happened.
 
The Wards grinder mixers and hammermills were built by the Algoma Foundry and Machine Co. of Algoma Wisconsin, for many years Wards was their bread and butter, Massey Ferguson bought them out in 1964. The same company made some parts for Wetmore mills. When I was a kid we ordered our pullet chicks and egg boxes etc. from the Montgomery wards farm catalog. Wards sold a lot of farm stuff in the rural south, we never had the farm stores in every town like the midwest and north had.
 
Hmmm, that might explain some other things then. MF owned Badger at one time, too .. . now late MF grinder mixers were rebranded Arts-Way, but I've seen an early one that didn't look like any Arts-Way I've ever seen. Neighbor had an old Badger grinder mixer that looked like that early MF. Maybe they were Algoma designs?
 
I remember reading that Algoma produced mills representing as many as 10 different brands at one time.
 
Ward's sold a lot of good items and very good quality. I have one of their garden tractors I bought in 1971. Hated to see them go out of business. Hal
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