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Imagine what it would be like if
you had to do all your chores by
hand. No gas-powdered engines to
drive vehicles or equipment. No
electric motors--or electricity, for
lhat matter-to power your house
hold appliances.
Through unthinkable to most of
BSi it was a way of life for the far
mers and families of yesteryear.
Visitors Ag Progress Days, can
get a taste of what life was like for
our agrarian ancestors by touring
the Pasto Agricultural Museum.
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Pasto Ag Museum: A Hands-On History Book
The museum houses more than
300 farms and home implements
from agriculture’s “muscle power
era,” which ended around World
War II when gasoline engines and
electricity began to reach rural
American. Items on display range
from a 6,000-year-old clay sickle
used for grain harvesting, to a
175-year-old mechanized apple
pealer, to a tum-of-the-century
foot-pedaled milking machine.
“People are always talking
about how high-tech we are now,”
says Dr. Jerome Pasto, museum
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curator and associate dean emeri
tus in Penn State’s College of
Agricultural Sciences. “But when
you take into account the general
education level and availability of
materials a century or two ago,
these items take on new techno
logical significance.”
Much of the museum is
arranged in chronological sequ
ence to show technological prog
ress. Sections are devoted to
harvesting grain, cutting and
handling hay, planting and
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tivating soil and processing milk
and cream. Items are displayed
next to the ones that took their
place in the endless quest to
reduce labor and increase farm
output.
Many artifacts have been
restored to working order so visi
tors, can turn the cranks and pull
thelevers. “I consider the museum
a hands-on history book,” Pasto
says. “There’s a story behind
every item here.”
Among the newest displays in
the museum is an ice-harvesting
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exhibit. It features an ice scorer
used to mark off evenly sized
blocks and a horse-drawn ice plow
and large pond saws for cutting
ice.
Ice harvesting was a major
winter activity for farmers until
the 19305, when electricity started
reaching farms. “On dairy farms,
the evening milk had to be kept
cool until it was shipped in the
morning,” explains Paste. “Most
farms had an ice house. Each
evening, a block of ice was put
into a trough of water where the
milk cans were kept. That helped
keep the bacteria count down in
the milk.”
Also on display is a vintage
1891 ice box with an ice compart
ment to keep contents cool, as
well as a porcelain-lined chilled
liquid compartment. On the door
is a faucet for drawing cool bever
ages. “The feature seen on modem
refngerators-getting ice water
through the door-is not a new
idea at all,” says Pasto.
The museum will be open to the
public during all three days of Ag
Progress Days. Group tours also
can be arranged. To schedule a
tour, contact the Office of Agri
cultural Short Courses at
(814)865-8301.
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