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A merican M useum
President
Dan Taylor
of
Agriculture
Volume 12, Issue I – January 2013
Happy New Year from AMA
Vice President
Patti Jones
Secretary
Curtis Griffith
Treasurer
Waylon Carroll
Executive
Director
Lacee Hoelting
Board of
Directors
Alton Brazell
Waylon Carroll
Ron Chandler
Vic Coker
Ronnie Gilbert
Don Harris
Mitchell Harris
Lynn Harrist
Lee Ruth Krieg
Steve Moffett
Clint Robinson
Dale Swinburn*
Brett Underwood
Tommy Woolam
SPATA Holds Successful Show at New Location
Planning for the 10th Annual Antique
Tractor and Engine Show started well over a
year before the event. With AMA’s new facility
and grounds, figuring out the logistics of the
show was a priority for the South Plains Antique
Tractor Association (SPATA). Lots of hard work,
onsite meetings, and pleasant weather resulted
in the largest show to date. Over 800 people
came through the gates in two days to see 85
tractors, one car, two pickups, multiple vendors
and a host of activities. Among the vendors
were the Johnson granddaughters who manned
a lemonade stand and the Slaton Bakery who
made old fashion ice cream using an antique
engine.
This was the first show where
both the Friday evening meal for
exhibitors and sponsors and the
Sunday morning worship service
were held inside the museum.
Stanley Young catered the meal and
Wayne Rush preached the Sunday
service. Both were well attended.
This year, the club in cooperation with
the museum, produced its first tractor
calendar featuring member tractors and
important dates for both the club and AMA.
Several were sold at the show and additional
calendars can be purchased at the museum
for $10.
Lonnie Stokes of Hale Center, Texas was
named the winner of the raffle tractor, a
1953 Ford Golden Jubilee. The tractor will
be on display at the Hale County Museum.
Several awards were given including
Jimmy Davis of Abernathy winning Favorite
Tractor with his John Deer 530 and C.E.
Hermonson of Michigan getting the award
for furthest distance traveled.
To date, this annual show is
one of the largest events at the
American Museum of Agriculture,
and AMA is extremely grateful
for the support and dedication
of SPATA in preserving our
agricultural heritage.
*denotes new
board member
Top: Aerial shot of
tractor show
Bottom: tractors in
parade of power and
Lonnie Stokes poses on
his raffle tractor
American Museum of Agriculture
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A Word from the Board
NEW MEMBERS &
RENEWALS
* denotes new membership
AMA Board Member - Vic Coker, Vic Coker Land Company, Muleshoe, Texas
I have always
been involved
SOD BUSTER
in high plains
Brad & Davon Cook
agriculture. I was
Shirley & LuCille Garrison
born in Littlefield,
The Gibraltar Group*
Texas in August
Don & Lynnita Hufstedler
of 1945 and grew
up on a farm in
CREW BOSS
northwestern
S. L & Julie Holladay
Lamb County,
Fred & Sandy Jones
between Earth and
Joel & Sallye Tankersley
Muleshoe.
Tri-Star Chemical
My dad grew cotton, wheat, milo,
hygear (sorghum hegari) and alfalfa and
TOP HAND
raised cattle, hogs and chickens. Feeding
Lloyd Arthur
the chickens and gathering the eggs were
Kenneth & Pat
my first responsibilities outside the house.
Brandenberger*
Later I fed slop, a mixture of our farm
Brooks & Belinda Ellison
raised milo and other ingredients, to the
Cody Gruhlkey
hogs (anything we fed the hogs was called
Mitchell Harris
slop). I ground feed for the cattle with a
belt drive feed grinder powered by a 1936
Melvin & Tina Macha
John Deere A that I still have.
Cecil & Carol McCullar*
My first hoeing job was to hoe out
Adam Rekerdres
the fence-rows. Hoeing cotton and milo
Leland and Barbara White
was a promotion from hoeing fence-rows,
Alan & Nan Zeman*
but the best promotion was getting to
drive that John Deere A pulling a section
FAMILY
harrow. Later I graduated to pulling a
Scotty & Carla Bessent
hamey and a one way.
Joe & Ginger Brown
My Dad was among the earliest
David and Harriet Bush
farmers
in our area to drill an irrigation
Ron and Donna Chandler
well
during
the 1930s, before I was
Gene & Carolyn Chappell
born.
I
can
remember learning to set
H. W. Curry
(siphon)
tubes
before I was old enough
Wes Dipprey
to
start
school.
I couldn’t set them fast,
J. T and Wanda Drake
but
occasionally
I could get one to run
Joe and LaPearl Embry
(siphon) before I wore the ditch bank
Travis Ferguson
down.
Don Foreman
F.F.A. and 4-H were both important
Bob & Sue Graham
to me. I got my first Duroc gilt through
Billy Hassler
the Sears & Roebuck program in 4-H
Brad Johnson Farms
when I was 12 years old. I took four
Ernie & Nita Kiesling
years of vocational agriculture in high
Roger & Janice Kitten
school and received my F.F.A. Lone Star
Sandy Lehman
Farmer Degree when I was a senior.
Bailey Mayo
After high school I began four and
Virgil & LaDene Rickel
one half years of study (sometimes) at
Charles & Jerry Beth
Texas Technological College in the school
of Agriculture, majoring in Mechanized
Shannon
Agriculture. I graduated in 1968 about a
Billy, Sharon & Courtney
year before T.T.C. became T.T.U.
Shofner
In 1969, I married Judy Moore, a
Kristy Tucker
schoolteacher, who came to SpringlakeRachel Wall
Earth school to teach after she graduated
Bill & Sharon Waters
from Hardin-Simmons University. We
Hudon & Ayleen White
began farming in 1969 and lived on the
Don & Neoma Williams
farm where I grew up. Our farming
Larry & Patti Work
prospered until the early 1980s when
American Museum of Agriculture
agriculture was going through some tough
times. I got into the farm and ranch real
estate business to help keep us going, but
I have never stopped farming.
Judy and I have four children, three
girls and one boy. Our son, Barry, is
in the agricultural real estate business
with me. He and our three daughters
Valerie, Shana, and Angie have blessed
us with ten grandchildren. Those grand
children provide a lot of incentive for
my involvement with the museum. It’s
important that they, and all children, have
an opportunity to learn about the history,
mechanization, and modernization of
agriculture.
They need to learn about the
depression and the dust bowl so maybe
history will not repeat itself. A.M.A. will
provide that opportunity for all ages and
walks of life to see and experience the
evolution of agriculture. Stories of feed
sack and flour sack shirts, dresses, and
pajamas need to be passed down. The
story of rural electrification, irrigation,
and many other historic changes can and
will eventually be told at our museum
because the museum will always be a
work in progress.
Phase II construction will be
beginning soon, and will make the
museum extremely versatile. The event
space will bring people to the museum
that might not visit otherwise. I also
look forward to Phase III, the educational
wing.
The museum’s board of directors is a
very dedicated and hard working group,
working to fund new construction, new
displays, and establish an endowment
to secure the future of A.M.A. I
feel honored to serve with such fine
individuals.
If you haven’t visited the museum
lately, come by. Changes are happening
all the time. If you would like to become
a volunteer, talk to Lacee. There are
several ways volunteers can help at the
museum.
The board recognizes and appreciates
the importance of our museum members
and volunteers. Their hard work and
monetary support are valuable beyond
words. Without all of their support our
museum will not grow and prosper.
Sincerely,
Vic Coker
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AMA’s First Holiday Harvest Helps to Give Back
The American Museum of Agriculture held
its first annual Holiday Harvest Food Drive from
December 3-17, with donations benefitting the
South Plains Food Bank.
The food drive ended with board members
volunteering an afternoon at the food bank.
During one of the worst dust storms in 35 years,
board members, including Dan Taylor, Steve
Moffett, Lee Ruth Krieg, and Brett Underwood
along with director, Lacee Hoelting, spent the
afternoon outside distributing food boxes to local
residents.
In addition to volunteer hours and collecting
food items, AMA members and volunteers made
monetary donations. This, combined with visitor
admissions during the two-week drive donated by
AMA, totaled $3,500. A check was given to the
South Plains Food Bank director, David Weaver,
at the start of the volunteer shift. This donation
will provide over 17,000 meals for local residents.
“Our museum has the most amazing and
supportive membership. They always come
through, whether funding a new exhibit
or helping feed the hungry. I guess it’s just
a common theme among the agriculture
community, “ said Lacee Hoelting, American
Museum of Agriculture’s executive director.
Hoelting said she hoped the food drive would
become an annual event as a way to give back to
the community. Please see a complete list below
of those who made monetary donations to the
food drive.
Dan Taylor and Steve Moffett
distribute drinks with food boxes.
-Edith Lovejoy Pierce, Poet 1904
Thank you to our Holiday Harvest Donors:
Adcock Gin Co.
Joe Anthony
Gary Bell
William Bennett
Tracy & Jaylayne Birkelbach
Bill & Melba Boyd
Doyle and Cindy Buxkemper
Caprock Metal Works
Mary Carroll
Waylon Carroll
Center Point Gin
Harvey & Joyce Garrison
Shirley & LuCille Garrison
Benny & Judy Gray
Curtis & Sue Griffith
Anita Hancock
Lynn & Cindy Harrist
Edsel & Georgia Huie
Terry & Sheri Hurst
Dan & Lee Ruth Krieg
Harold & Billie Landrum
Joe & Phyllis Lemon
Billy Mason
Charles Mason
Bobby & Joyce McNabb
Steve & Rhea Lyn Newton
Don & Sherry Proctor
American Museum of Agriculture
Benny Sides
Jack Sides
Donald & Sheila Stephens
Charles Stewart
Jim Stewart
Street Communicty Gin
Sunburst Farms
Dale & Cheryl Swinburn
Quenna Terry
Eddie & Denise Thetford
Tinsley Gin
Tri-Star Chemmical
Brett Underwood
INDIVIDUAL
DONORS
James Carroll
Gary & Dixie Hamar
Jimmy McKenzie
Nathan Morris
James Silhan
Aurthur J. Valladao
QUARTERLY
VOLUNTEERS
Alton Brazell
Waylon Carroll
Ron Chandler
Vic Coker
J.T. Drake
Lewis Eggenberger
Bob Graham
Sue Graham
Curtis Griffith
Linda King
Lee Ruth Krieg
Harold Landrum
Doyle McFerrin
Weldon Menzer
Steve Moffett
Red Rivers
Clint Robinson
Charles Stewart
Wayne Swart
Wanda Swart
Dale Swinburn
Dan Taylor
Linda Taylor
Brett Underwood
Preston Upshaw
Shirley White
Dale Winders
Tommy Woolam
Stanley Young
We would also like to
thank all of those who
brought donations of
food to the museum or
made cash donations.
Top: Lee Ruth Krieg and Dan
Taylor help assemble boxes for
families as they drive through
the South Plains Food Bank
parking lot.
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Remembering Those Special To Us
a unique way to honor or remember someone special
For the convenience of our members and readers,
we now have memorial and honorarium forms available to print online. Go to
www.agriculturehistory.org/membership.php
Forms can be found in the top, right-hand corner
under the heading Forms/Downloads.
Send your completed form and payment to
American Museum of Agriculture
PO Box 505
Lubbock, TX 79408
Special Thanks
IN MEMORY OF . . .
Ruby Hancock Alspaugh by Hurst Farm Supply
B. L. Anderson Jr. by Kristofer Verett
Robert Vance Avant Sr. by Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Donald Aycock by Hurst Farm Supply
Carl Bevill by Evans Grain
Ida Marie Bruington by Hurst Farm Supply
Connie Burnett by Evans Grain
Connie Burnett by Hurst Farm Supply
Charles Mather Carr by Hurst Farm Supply
Charles Mather Carr by Steve & Gayle Trowbridge
James Carroll by Stan Carroll
Glen Davis by Idalou Coop Gin
Soren Eugene Deering, Sr. by Larry & Donna Ashley
Myra Klattinhoff Colleps by Hurst Farm Supply
Henry Kveton by Hurst Farm Supply
Henry Kveton by Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Jay Dromgoole by Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Eugene & Dorothy Ellis by Don & Gayle Langston
Larry “Butch” Fairchild by Ray, Celia, Wes & Ben Mason
Elvin Moss Foster by Evans Grain
Elvin Moss Foster by Hurst Farm Supply
Emory Gannaway by David Langston
Donald Hurdt by Hurst Farm Supply, Inc.
James Hobbs by Hursts Farm Supply, Inc.
James Michael Hurst by Larry and Linda King
Michael Hurst by Dan & Linda Taylor
Steve Jones by Farris & Monica Hightower
Steve Jones by Bill & Karin McCay
Steve Jones by Mike & Linda Stevens
Robert Kauffman by Buster’s Gin, LLC
Norman Ledbetter by Woolam Gin
Chester I. McCurry by Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Lorene E. McGehee by Hursts Farm Supply, Inc.
Lorene E. McGehee by Idalou Coop Gin
Lorene E. McGehee by Ray, Celia, Wes & Ben Mason
Lorene E. McGehee by Charles Mason
Darrell McInroe by Hurst Farm Supply
Darrel McInroe by Idalou Coop Gin
Ralph McLaughlin by Steve & Patricia Verett
Douge Medlock by Hurst Farm Supply
D. J. Moses by Eddie and Nancille Verett
Julia Gay Merrell McPherson by Hurst Farm Supply, Inc.
American Museum of Agriculture
Jerry C. Mull by Hurst Farm Supply
Thomas A. Poulson by Larry & Donna Ashley
Thomas A. Poulson by Hurst Farm Supply, Inc.
Clayton W. “Rover” Perry by Bob and Sue Graham
Clayton W. “Rover” Perry by Kimley-Horn and
Associates, Inc.
Clayton W. “Rover” Perry by South Plains
Antique Tractor Association
Clayton W. “Rover” Perry by Donna & Ricky Walker
Clayton W. “Rover” Perry by Lee Ray, Jean and Curtis
Wilde
H. L. Porter by Hursts Farm Supply, Inc.
Berhl Robertson by Hursts Farm Supply, Inc.
Jack & Johnnie Robertson by Steve & Patricia
Verett
Louise Rowden by Hurst Farm Supply
Jennifer “Jennie” Crump Rowin by Hursts Farm Supply,
Inc.
Vicki Newton Scott by Hurst Farm Supply
Paul Sherril by Woolam Gin
Harold “H.J.” Steffens by Hursts Farm Supply, Inc.
Alice Thomas by Hurst Farm Supply
Colleen Tucker by Hurst Farm Supply
William Vanzielst by Ray, Celia, Wes & Ben Mason
Bob Walke by Buster’s Gin, LLC
Grady P. Warren by Vic & Judy Coker
Grady Phillip Warren by Vic & Judy Coker
Walker & Pauline Watkins by Eddie and Nancille Verett
Dewey & Margie Wells by Steve & Patricia Verett
Valton Wheeler by Hursts Farm Supply, Inc.
Sue Ashley Winter by Hurst Farm Supply
Sue Ashley Winter by Stoney and Doris Jackson
Tony Woods by Buster’s Gin, LLC
IN HONOR OF . . .
Mary Carroll by Stan Carroll
Anne Hamill by Larry & Linda King
Ann McLaughlin Orr by Steve & Patricia Verett
Bart & Tami Roye by Steve & Patricia Verett
Dan & Linda Taylor by Pat Enloe
Dan & Linda Taylor by Thomas & Delinda Hicklen
Dan & Linda Taylor by Joel & Sallye Tankersley
Bob & Betty Wideman by Heath Verett
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20th Annual Turkey Trot Brings Record Crowd to AMA
coverage and our logo on every shirt given to the
runners,” said Lacee Hoelting, AMA executive director.
The museum and Turkey Trot were featured in Fox’s
Look Around Lubbock, and all four local stations sent
reporters to cover the event on Thanksgiving. Hoelting
hopes AMA can continue to host this event in the
future.
Additional sponsors for the race included: Scholtzky’s
as the title sponsor, FootTech, Outback Steakhouse,
United Supermarkets and Ag Texas Farm Credit who
supplied water for the event. AMA would like to thank
Doyle McFerrin and Red Rivers for manning the
museum during the race.
On Thanksgiving morning 2012, runners from West
Texas, other Texas cities, and other states as far away
as Alaska were “Racing to the American Museum of
Agriculture” for the 20th Running of the Turkey Trot.
“The highlight of the 20th Anniversary Turkey Trot
was definitely the American Museum of Agriculture, as
this beautiful new facility served as the host venue to a
record setting 860 participants,” said Terry Dalton, this
year’s race director.
In addition to a record setting number of runners,
several families, visitors, and volunteers came to see the
museum and support the runners. This sets a new record
for AMA daily attendance at just under 1,500 people.
“This was a great event for us complete with media
ABOUT THE WEST TEXAS RUNNING CLUB:
Founded in 1972, the West Texas Running Club is located
in Lubbock, Texas and is governed by an eleven member
elected Board of Directors. The purpose of the WTRC is
to promote distance running as an aid to physical fitness
and longevity and if need be, an alternative “Positive
addiction.” For more information, visit
http://wtrunning.com
R&J Crustbuster Model
In the 1940s, in all row-planting areas of the plains
country, especially the Western states, planting was
done in deep furrows. Heavy spring rains filled these
furrows, forming a heavy crust, which was difficult for
seeds of certain grains and cotton to penetrate.
This inspired Jack Brogden to invent the
Crustbuster, and on October 2, 1951, he and his
business partner Ross Edwards, received a patent for
an Agricultural Crust Busting Implement. Brogden
and Edwards rented a facility at 341 and 343 Avenue
H in Lubbock, Texas and went into production as R &
J Company. They remained at that location until the
1970 Lubbock tornado ravaged the downtown area.
Bigham Brothers and Sons, now Bigham Brothers,
Inc bought R & J’s implement line. The Crustbuster,
later renamed the Crustivator, was made in two, four,
six and eight-row versions.
Jack Brogden used the smaller replica Crustbuster
attached to a pedal tractor at fairs and tradeshows.
Brogden worked as a salesman for Bigham Brothers for
15 years following the merger.
American Museum of Agriculture
Brogden’s invention revolutionized the way people
farmed in the area, reducing both labor and time costs.
The model, donated by Brogden’s daughter, Joyce
Brogden, can be seen near the entrance of the toy
tractor room. It was restored by Red Rivers and Doyle
McFerrin.
While the model is a great addition to AMA’s
collection, we also have a 4-row and 6-row Crustbuster
in the museum’s collection at Shallowater.
Cover of
Crustbuster
Parts
Catalogue
donated
by Joyce
Brogden
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American Museum of Agriculture
PO Box 505
Lubbock, TX 79408
Hours
The museum is open
Tuesday through
Saturday from 10 a.m.
until 5 p.m.
Special tours are available
upon request.
Contact Us
806.744.3786 museum/fax
806.239.5796 director
E-mail:
amadirector@
agriculturehistory.org
Website:
www.agriculturehistory.org
Saturday, January 26 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Held at the American Museum of Agriculture
Only $5 a person for all the chili and fixings you can eat.
Bring a friend and help us kick off another great year!
American Museum of Agriculture
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