Ralph;

I am always amazed at your library. Glad you are able to keep us on the right road. Guess it took the Cockshutt design to put Oliver in the combine business. I was very disappointed when White sold the rights to the rotary combine to Massey. Massey, now Agco, has really made a market with this design.

Gene

My three apple trees were in fulll bloom a week or so ago, but yesterday and today it's snowing!

 
Just an update on the apple situation in 2010.  While in one of the NYS fruit belts near the south shore of Lake Ontario yesterday, I grabbed a couple of pictures of this years crop on the trees.  Sorry for the lack of color in the pictures.  It was a heavily overcast day.  I do not know if these are sauce apples or eating apples, but they still make me want to pick one and bite in.

Charlie V.