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    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    Nov 05, 2021 4 minutes

    Remembering ice harvests and haying

    The September issue of Farm Collector brought back memories of the ice harvest and haying. The harvest I am familiar with came from Beaver Creek, when I was just a boy and in school during the week. Beaver Creek began in the Kanorado area of Kansas and flowed northeast and entered Nebraska southeast of McCook and then into a mostly easterly direction.

    Ten or 12 farmers would get together and build a dam with slips and my uncle would follow up with a Farmall F-30 with a tumblebug in early fall. Usually by late January

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