Industrial Revolution Comes to the Farm



 
Farmers bringing wheat to Moorhead, 1879. Elevator A constructed by Bruns & Finkle in 1878 was first steam operated elevator in the Red River Valley.  Photo by Ole E. Flaten Clay County and Minnesota Historical Society.
Advertisement for Russell “Bull Dozer” or “Marsh Filler,” ca. 1920.  Caption reads: "It is built for filling in ditches, marshes or for shoving dirt  over dump where wagons cannot travel. The power is behind the plade, so that it shoves the dirt into ditch or over embankment.   Minnesota Historical Society.

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