The March 2022 issue of Farm Collector arrived and I may have misunderstood the opening sentences in the article titled, “From Workhorse to Show Horse.” The opening sentence starts, “When the corn binder was replaced in the 1940s by the field cutter…” Corn binders were in use in central Vermont through the 1950s.
Dad was discharged from the Army in 1946, going home and starting a dairy operation on the family farm in Tunbridge, Vermont. He and mother married in September 1946 and I joined them in 1947. My first memories were of a team of horses on the farm and various pieces of horse-drawn equipment. A corn crop was planted and harvested by cutting the stalks with a hand sickle and loading them on a wagon. Later, Dad acquired a 1946 Ford 1-ton
