Horse implement revival: Progress day spotlights newest offerings. (Let's talk rusty iron).(Brief Article)

Farm Collector, December, 2001 by Moore, Sam

An estimated 10,000 spectators attended the eighth annual Draft Horse and Mule Progress Days, held in June in southeastern Indiana. Presented by the horse farming community of Daviess County, the show was headquartered at Dinky's Auction Center, northeast of Montgomery, and field demonstrations took place under a blazing hot sun at a farm next to the auction barn.

Farm equipment manufacturers stopped building horse drawn equipment during the early 1950s because they thought the horse was finished as a power source on modern farms. For the next three decades, horse farmers got ...