Cutting of the Wheat and a few Tractors, too

By Lisa Peklo
Posted: July 9, 2009

The community is invited to the Living Heritage Farm Museum in West Friendship Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. for the Howard County Antique Farm Machinery Club’s Annual Cutting of the Wheat event. Club members, in conjunction with the Maryland Draft Horse and Mule Association, will be on hand for the cutting of the wheat which was planted on the property last fall. Demonstrations include threshing, baling, horse pulls, wagon rides and tractors galore.

As always, Art Boone and John Frank will be heading up the Blue Grass music and refreshments will be served. This event, which is symbolic as well as practical, is representative of the fine work the local club continues to do in an effort to foster the origins and rural roots of West Friendship as an original farming community.

“Children always love the old farm machinery,” says Virginia Frank one of the charter members of the Farm Machinery Club. Come out for a day of old time farm life. The Living Heritage Farm Museum is on Route 144 just across the road from the Howard County fairgrounds.

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