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  Sutton Farm, Hartland Township, Fenton, Michigan, Plow Day 2008

  Remembering Sutton Farm, Fenton, Michigan Plow Day 2008 George Winegar and Joyce Fisher interviewed and captured Plow Day for the Howell Area Archives, Howell, Michigan at the Sutton Centennial Farm, Fenton, Michigan (HCDL-bd-Sutton-Farm-Plow-Day_m.mp4).
  
  Sutton Farm was located on Fenton Road, just south of Holtforth, Hartland Township, Livingston County, Michigan.
  
  The exact date of the event is unknown.  The background noise of tractors makes hearing the dialogue difficult.
  

  • Names:George Winegar, Joyce Fisher (voice), Elaine Wyckoff Sutton, Sutton Farm, Fred Buckner, Tom Tooley
  • Tractors: John Deere, Massey Ferguson, McCormick Deering Farmall, White, International, Allis Chalmers
  • Steam Traction Engine: owned by Fred Buckner, Howell, Michigan, Peerless, manufactured by the Geiser Manufacturing Company
  • Equipment: plows, corn sheller
  • The names of the others in the video are unknown.

  Tags farming, fenton, hartland, howell, plowing, steam traction engine, unknown
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  Apple Picking, Tintype, Unknown

  This is a photograph of apple picking from a tintype.  
  The location, date and names of the persons in the photograph are unknown.

  Tags farming, unknown
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  Steam Engine Tractor, Livingston, Michigan

  This image was included in 1st National Bank Calendar, 9-2002, Howell, Livingston, Michigan.
  
  Captioned, it says, "Farmers examine the overturned tractor that traveled farm to farm to thresh grain."
  
  Exact date of accident, location and persons in pictures, unknown.

  Tags accident, farming, tractor, unknown
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  Farm Haystack

  This image was included in the 1st National Bank Calendar, and features a threshing scene and the creation of a large haystack.
  
  The location is presumed to be Livingston County, but the exact location, persons in the photograph,  and date are unknown.

  Tags bank, farming, threshing, unknown