American Museum of Agriculture Volume 12, Issue 4 – Dec. 2013/Jan. 2014

President Dan Taylor FROMHappy THE BAYER MUSEUM New OF AGRICULTUREYear Vice President Patti Jones

Secretary Curtis Griffith

Treasurer Waylon Carroll

Executive Photos by Lacee Hoelting Director SPATA Show Brings Large Crowd to Museum Lacee Hoelting The South Plains Antique Tractor Association’s organized by Kent and Jeanie Shelton, club (SPATA) 11th Annual Antique Tractor and Engine members from Amherst. Children could shell Board of Show was held October 19 & 20 at the Bayer corn, wash clothes, use an old ringer or ride Museum of Agriculture. behind the tractor, courtesy of Ray Thomas. Directors This year’s show brought in 88 tractors and The Idalou Band Boosters kept everyone Alton Brazell several new exhibits. Farm Bureau brought fed at the concession stand over the course of Waylon Carroll an educational trailer and Carlton Parks, a tractor the weekend. The Band Boosters raised enough club member from Talpa, Texas (near Coleman), funds that they even gave a portion back to the Ron Chandler set up a working blacksmith shop under one of the club and have expressed an interest in running Vic Coker trees. People enjoyed watching Carlton and his wife the concession stand again next year. Ronnie Gilbert Deloris using many tools of the trade. They made Cold weather on Friday and Saturday kept knives from railroad spikes, which they sold to attendance down, but the show still brought in Don Harris interested visitors. one of the museum’s largest crowds for 2013. Mitchell Harris Other additions to the show included face Show attendees enjoyed the grass and improved Pat Jones* painting for the children, a new people hauler grounds. Lee Ruth Krieg that transported guests The Bayer Museum of Agriculture used the from the parking lot 2012 SPATA donation to help fund planting Steve Moffett to the show, and an grass and installing a pivot irrigation system. Clint Robinson electrical demonstration The Museum congratulates the South Dale Swinburn by South Plains Electric Plains Antique Tractor Association on another Cooperative. successful show and thanks them for their Brett Underwood This year’s show continued support. Tommy Woolam saw the return of the children’s area, which was Top: Aerial *denotes new shot of tractor show board member Bottom Middle: Jim Johnson & Granddaughter draw raffle tractor winner, Bottom right: Doyle McFerrin shows Clay Hoelting the Ford tractor restored by museum volunteers. Bayer Museum of Agriculture Page 1 11th Annual SPATA Show Results New Members & Overall Winners: Tractor Rodeo Game Winners: Renewals * denotes new membership People’s Choice Tractor: Teeter Totter: 1940 Farmall H - Wayne Kitchens, Saturday - Wade Wiley CREW BOSS Abernathy Sunday - Glen Jackson W. Calloway Huffaker Marvin Shoepf Most Tractors at Show: Barrell Roll: 9- Bill & Linda Adams, Saturday - David Norman TOP HAND Lubbock Sunday - Leighton Garrett Alton Brazell Caprock Metal Works Farthest Distance Slow Race: Traveled: Damian Mason* Saturday - Doyle McFerrin Weldon Menzer C.A. & Kathy Stein, La Coste, TX Chain Game: FAMILY Wade Wiley competes in the Most Engines: Teeter Totter Contest . Roger Nelson Denise Bailey* Robert Thomas, Lubbock Billy & Melba Boyd Farmall C Raffle Tractor Winner JT & Wanda Drake Oldest Tractor: Lewis Walker, Kress Joe & La Pearl Embry 1929 GP John Deere, C.A. Stein Ike & Tom Flores* Bernie & Barbara Gradel Mark & Becky Heath Casey & Lacy Jones* Lee Leonard A.D. Hughes Koby Reed* Born in Lubbock, Texas and raised on a with fuel along the 1,800 mile trip. A.D. Ken Romine cotton farm just outside of Lubbock, A.D. was also the first vehicle in the tractor-cade Joyce Schwertner* Hughes is one of the newest volunteers at to pull into D.C. the Bayer Museum of Agriculture. “The tractor-cade was a really good INDIVIDUAL DONORS In the fall of 1963, A.D. attended thing,” said A.D, “it happened once and Stanley Carroll and in the same it won’t ever happen again, but once was Marie Evans year met his future wife enough.” James Silhan Susan, whom he married Twenty-six solid miles of in 1966. After receiving a tractors drew a lot of attention OTHER GIFTS degree in animal science, along the way. According to Brad & Davon Cook A.D. ran confinement swine A.D., the trip began to get a Don & Lynnita Huffstedler operations in Anton, Texas little dangerous. and then in Seffner, Florida “The Northern route had a for about seven years. Susan priest with them and one night went to work as a program he told us ‘I’m going to pray analyst for the that it snows two feet tonight’ Department of Agriculture and sure enough that night it Compliance. She worked in snowed 24 inches exactly,” A.D. Washington D.C., Kansas said. City, MO and went on to “We took the pregnant start a farmer’s education and the sick to the hospital in program at Granbury tractors because they were the College and retired from only vehicles that could handle there in 2006. the snow. We simply helped A.D. and Susan have those who needed the help two children together, Bud and Suzette. and things got better after that,” said A.D., A.D. and Susan now enjoy retirement at “it truly was a Godly thing and everybody their home just outside of Smyer. realized it.” A.D. got involved with the museum A.D. enjoys his time as a volunteer after participating in the American saying, “Every time I come here I see all Agriculture Movement Reunion sponsored these tractors, especially the yellow one in part by BMA in June of 2013. His outside, it reminds me of why I’m here.” favorite stories revolve around his His passion for preserving our heritage involvement in the 1979 tractor-cade that and his background in agriculture make traveled to Washington D.C. during the A.D. a wonderful addition to our volunteer American Agriculture Movement. staff. Thank you, A.D. A.D. was responsible for driving the service truck that supplied all the tractors Story and Photo by Kirby Kennedy

Bayer Museum of Agriculture Page 2 Museum Says Goodbye to Long-time Friend, Shirley Garrison QUARTERLY The ideal museum supporter gives of and Lacee to give presentations on the VOLUNTEERS their time, resources, and passion. Shirley museum to the Easter Lions Club. Bill Adams Garrison did all of these things and more In addition to many earlier donations, Linda Adams for the Bayer Museum of Agriculture. the Garrison Family Foundation funded Alton Brazell Shirley the landscaping project at the new facility. Waylon Carroll and LuCille Mr. Garrison and his family visited the Ron Chandler Garrison, museum to see the completed project and Vic Coker along with the plaque bearing their name. J.T. Drake their group “Shirley was so encouraging. More Bob Graham of friends, than once, I remember him calling to tell Sue Graham the Forget- me I was doing a good job or to Curtis Griffith Me-Nots, stick to my guns. I’ll miss that A.D. Hughes were familiar a lot, “ said Hoelting, museum Patti Jones faces at all of the museum events. director. Linda King Most recently, the Garrison “He was a wonderful Phil Krambeck Family bought a table at the supporter, but more importantly, Lee Ruth Krieg 2013 A Night for the Museum he was a friend and mentor.” Harold Landrum Fundraiser on October 8. Both Lee Leonard Shirley and his son Harvey were Doyle McFerrin in attendance. Weldon Menzer In 2010, Mr. Garrison arranged for Steve Moffett Lacee Hoelting, Dan Taylor and Curtis Ewart Phillips Griffith to travel with him to Woodland, Lillie Phillips California to see the Heidrick Agricultural C. Don Rhodes History Center. Mr. Garrison had become Red Rivers friends with Fred Heidrick, Sr. when they Clint Robinson served together on the Sugar Beet Growers Enrique Saa Board. Many ideas generated from that trip Erick Saa influenced the design of the Brazell Exhibit Top - The Forget-Me-Nots attend Ice Cream Social, Bottom - group shot from trip to California Guillermo Salazar Hall. He also arranged for both Angela Leonard Schmidt Dale Swinburn “It's not how much we give but how much love we Dan Taylor Brett Underwood put into giving.” -Mother Teresa Preston Upshaw Dale Winders Tommy Woolam Stanley Young Chris Zeiss

Top Left: Steve Moffett delivers a Grumman AgCat plane to the museum that was donated by Texas State Technical Top Right: Children get their faces painted at the tractor show College in Waco. Middle: Turkey Trot participant nears finish line at museum. Bottom Left: New exhibitor Bottom Right: Museum Member Stan Carroll participates in Kolby Reed participates in the annul Turkey Trot held on Thanksgiving Day the Tractor Rodeo at the 11th at the Bayer Museum of Agriculture by the Annual SPATA Show. Running Club.

Bayer Museum of Agriculture Page 3 Remembering Those Special To Us a unique way to honor or remember someone special For the convenience of our members and readers, we now have memorial and honorarium forms available to print online. Go to www.agriculturehistory.org/membership.php Forms can be found in the top, right-hand corner under the heading Forms/Downloads. Send your completed form and payment to Bayer Museum of Agriculture PO Box 505 Lubbock, TX 79408 Special Thanks

IN MEMORY OF . . . Conrad & Frances Melcher by Norine Patschke Charles Anderson by Don Blair Bobbie Mimms by Norine Patschke Dorothy Katherine Anderson by Hurst Farm Ronnie Joe Nolte by Hurst Farm Supply Supply Dr. John Packard by Calvin & Sandra Lemon John Lane Ballard by Hurst Farm Supply Earl Poston by Norine Patschke Owen Lynn Barron by Hurst Farm Supply John Reams by Norine Patschke Bo Becker by Norine Patschke John Reams by Calvin & Sandra Lemon Ted Crenwelge by Hurst Farm Supply Gwen Riley by Hurst Farm Supply Gaulbert Anton Demel by Hurst Farm Supply Gwen Riley by Dan & Lee Ruth Krieg Dub & Irene Dunagan by Norine Patschke Gwen Riley by Gary McKenzie Dub & Irene Dunagan by Calvin & Sandra Laffell Drake Riley by Hurst Farm Supply Lemon Laffell Drake Riley By Taylor Insurance Co. Arlene Dyer by Don & Noema Williams Durwood Searsy by Norine Patschke Eddie Joe Foster by Hurst Farm Supply Ben Spradling by Hurst Farm Supply Eddie Joe Foster by Plains Cotton Growers James Richard Stiles by David & Ronda Langston Donald Fritz by Hurst Farm Supply Dr. James R. Supak by Dan & Lee Ruth Krieg Donald Fritz by Liberty Co-op Gin Doug Taylor by Texas Star Co-op Gin Jimmie F. Grissom by Southwest Council of Wayne Teal by Calvin & Sandra Lemon Agribusinesses Wayne Teal by Gary McKenzie Darrell Hardin by Don & Gayle Langston Jimmie G. Walker by Hurst Farm Supply Robert Lee Holland by David Langston Bill Willis by Hurst Farm Supply Wayne Huffaker by Calloway Huffaker Mary Lou Prescott Winegeart by Gary McKenzie Rachel Huffaker by Dan & Lee Ruth Krieg Edward Jordan by Norine Patschke IN HONOR OF . . . Fred Keesee by Roy & Bev Howard Dan & Linda Taylor by Carlton & Janis Buesing Fred Keesee by Charles & Cindy Huffman & Family Fred Keesee by Hurst Farm Supply Dan Taylor by Thomas & DeLinda Hicklen Fred Keesee by South Plains Antique Tractor Family Association Dan Taylor by Darrell Taylor Lewis Lutrick by Gary McKenzie Dan & Linda Taylor by Joel & Sallye Tankersley Lloyd Emery Martin by Hurst Farm Supply Lloyd Emery Martin by South Plains Antique Tractor Association Barbara Matthews by Norine Patschke Bayer Museum of Agriculture Page 4 Texas Plains Trail Region Visits the Bayer Museum of Agriculture volunteers from a 52-county area to the Bayer Museum of Agriculture. “The Texas Plains Trail Region is proud to claim the Bayer Museum of Agriculture as a key heritage tourism partner — and the site of Lubbock County’s giant arrow marker on the Quanah Parker Trail,” said TPTR Executive Director Barbara Brannon. “The Museum’s hospitality gave our board members from every corner of the region a chance to see how extensively our farming history is represented and interpreted here on the Plains. We can’t wait to come back when the new wing is completed!”

ABOUT THE TEXAS HERITAGE TRAILS PROGRAM: The Texas Plains Trails Region is one of 10 regions in the The On October 24, the Texas Plains Trail Region Texas Heritage Trails Program (THTP), the Texas Historical Commission’s (THC) award-winning heritage tourism initiative. board met at the museum and celebrated 10 years of This economic development initiative encourages communities, partnership with museums, historic sites, parks, and heritage regions, and the state to partner and promote Texas’ other places that preserve and share the authentic historic and cultural resources. These successful local preservation experience of Texas. It was in September of 2003 that efforts, combined with statewide marketing of heritage regions as the organization officially joined the Texas Heritage tourism destinations, increase visitation to cultural and historic Trails under the umbrella of the Texas Historical sites and bring more dollars to Commission. Texas communities.For more The group recently moved their headquarters to information, visit Lubbock and started their meeting with a special http://texasplainstrail.com/ announcement from Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson. Top: Board and guests of the Texas Mayor Robertson proclaimed Thursday, October 24, Plains Trail Region meet at the Bayer Museum of Agriculture to celebrate 2013, Texas Plains Trail Region Day in Lubbock, as part Texas Plains Trail Region Week of a series of events during Texas Plains Trail Region in Lubbock, October 24, 2013. Week. Bottom: President Debbie Wegman presents the Texas Plains Trail Region’s The bi-monthly board meeting, which was open to 10th Anniversary poster to Lubbock mayor Glen Robertson in recognition of the the public, brought twenty museum professionals and region’s charter date. (photos courtesy of Texas Plains Trail Region) Lummus Automatic Air Blast Gin In 1908, the F.H. Lummus Sons Company donated to the Museum of Texas Tech University by arranged a deal with the Epps Air Blast Gin Company Rosemary Bloodworth Anderson in 1983. The gin was of Sherman, Texas, to manufacture and sell air blast one of several items transferred to the Bayer Museum doffing attachments. of Agriculture by the Museum of Texas Tech in Prior to the air blast method, brush March of 2013. cylinders made of horsehair were used The Duncan Gin Company originally used to remove lint from the gin saws. this gin in Whiteflat, Texas. Located in Motley Rodents often ate the horsehair, thus County on highway 70 between Turkey and unbalancing the cylinder and limiting Matador, Whiteflat is now its effectiveness. a ghost town. At its height, “In addition, both brush and saw the community boasted four cylinders required separate pulleys. grocery stores, three service The air blast attachment would make stations, three garages, two possible a single drive pulley, requiring cafes, a hardware store, two less horsepower, and would simplify gins, and three churches. The maintenance,” says Karen Britton in her last remaining building, a post book, “Bale O’ Cotton.” office, closed in 1966. This 70-saw huller, air blast gin with automatic feed control and self-dumping double picker rolls was Left: Gin running three 80-saw Lummus gin stands referred to as the “gin with brains” in the 1918 Lummus (photo courtesy of Lummus Corporation) Cotton Gin Co. catalogue. Right: Museum’s Lummus 70-saw gin. It was fully restored by Lummus Industries and (photo by Kirby Kennedy) Bayer Museum of Agriculture Page 5 Bayer Museum of Agriculture PO Box 505 Lubbock, TX 79408

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