Old John Deere notebook

gregk · Dec 11, 2011

I received this notebook after grandpa passed away last year and thought it was kinda interesting. Hopefully here are a few pics.

Janicholson · Dec 11, 2011

Always nice to have history and connection to it. Jim

LME · Dec 11, 2011

I have several of the old ledgers, some belonged to my Dad, others I collected. I think they neat.

old popper · Dec 11, 2011

I have several old "Pocket Ledgers" myself. I always watch for them at flea markets or auctions. The antique shops here in NW Iowa are asking $25 and up, so keep it dear to your heart knowing it was your Grandfathers

Bob Huntress · Dec 11, 2011

I love the old technical books. They didn't say anything politically correct in those days. It gives quite an insight into how people thought in the day. I especially like the way cookbooks don't actually give direction. I realize that technical tooks about tractors and cars etc also skip the detailed account of steps that appear in modern technical books. It's like the writers felt that if you needed more than the specs, you probably shouldn't be messing with it.

Mike Lucas · Dec 11, 2011

I've got a few of those notebooks, including one from the
Avery steam engine company. I also have a few from a great-grandfather and others dated 1910 or so. The entries are fascinating.

gregk · Dec 11, 2011

Yeah, wound up with a couple Successful Farming magazines also. IIRC they are dated 1950 and 1951, funny to look at the advertisements and articles and see how it all has changed.

Brian Dan · Dec 11, 2011

I have one I found in my dads attic. It is from 1948. My dad used it for record keeping. In the notebook my dad had kept hours of my uncle whoom worked for him. They were the computer of the day.

gene bender · Dec 11, 2011

Those always were good reading for many yrs the seed corn records were kept in one as you always got a new one from someone each yr. Hybrid # field and day it was planted along with weather was always fun to go thru after harvest.

Leroy · Dec 11, 2011

The picture of the cover shows someone had written the year down as 1953 and then sombody changed it to 1956, why I have no idea as it actually is a 1953 from the models it shows. 53 being the last of the D series and also being the first of the number series.

ShadetreeRet · Dec 11, 2011

I have always enjoyed finding something like that. There is a lot of history recorded in those little books. A few years ago I bought a 1976 F-150 from the original owner, it still had the operators instruction book in the dash along with the original bill of sale and a receipt for the dealer installed radio/8 track. There was also a small notebook advertising Sweet Peach Snuff that he kept records of oil changes in.

RusselAZ · Dec 11, 2011

I have the 86th edition from my Dad's stuff. The calender on the back is for 1952 and 1953. Everything you ever need to know about tilling is in that book.

I just like old stuff.

ShadetreeRet · Dec 11, 2011

A few years ago, my wife bought a book for me at an estate auction on the care and repair of the Model T Ford.It was printed in 1926. Inside was an original Ford parts list. It measures 3 and1/4 by 6 inches and has all of forty seven pages. ( Compare that to a printed parts book today.) On the cover is stamped, "Shaw Motor Co. Roebling, N.J. Phone Florence 193.

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