SD Agricultural Heritage Museum Blog

This group of Brookings children is commemorating the American soldiers that were going to be deployed in Europe during WWI.

• Throwback Thursday

In 1842, Jerome Increase Case left his home in Oswego County, New York and headed to Wisconsin with six ground hog threshers. On his way west, Case sold five of the six threshers, keeping one for himself.

• What's New Wednesday

May is National Preservation Month!

• Throwback Thursday

During times when farm prices were down, American farm women stepped up to the plate to fill in the income gaps. They sold any excess cream, butter, and eggs to supplement their farm’s income. Many times, these commodities paid the mortgage.

• What's New Wednesday

April showers bring May flowers. Spring and summer bring us beautiful flowers and gardens to refresh us after months of cold and dreary weather. This hand-colored photograph has red, orange and yellow Zinnias, green spikes of Bells of Ireland and other flowers. Wishing you a successful gardening season this year!

• Throwback Thursday

Horses are one of the earliest modes of human transportation and riders have always needed help to communicate with and steer their horse.

• What's New Wednesday

On June 26, 1952, South Dakota State College West Farm, Brookings, SD, Dr. C.M. Nagel is showing cottonwood specimens at a Farm Forestry Meeting.

• Throwback Thursday

Arbor Day was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton, a Nebraska newspaperman, pioneer and avid tree planter. Pioneers moving to the treeless prairies missed the cool, green trees of home, so they made it a priority to plant trees.

• What's New Wednesday

This black and white photo from the J.G. Hutton Collection shows an advancing sandbank burying Russian Thistle in front of an abandoned farmhouse.

• Throwback Thursday

Fred T. Baker, purchased on April 21, 1896, one share in the American Tribune Soldier Colony Company. From 1900 to ca. 1915, Baker was a hardware merchant and postmaster in Aurora. In 1920, he is the proprietor of a cigar shop in Brookings. It is unknown why he purchased this stock share.

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