Geroge Jeffery's Thresher

     I took this photo of George's "Dion Self-feeding Threshing Machine" in the spring of 1985.  In its day this was the most advanced pieces of farming machinery a farmer could own.  Wilbert Jeffery said George bought this thresher in 1953 - he recalls George telling him that he bought a new 88  Oldsmobile in 1951, a new Oliver tractor in 1952 and this new thresher in 1953.

See the thresher in operation on this youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BedLrhPGsKI

     Below: unknown man feeding a threshing machine.  The photo came from a collection of photos owned by Eliza (Jeffery) Sellick who died in 1939. The likely that of her Jeffery family.  Eliza's father was Abram Jeffery and this is possibly one of her brothers.  The mostly unidentified photo collection was given to me in 1996 by Eliza's daughter Irene (Sellick) Clark

     Below: A modern day demonstration of how the threshing machine worked.

http://www.minisappashow.com/

     Be sure to visit the Canadian Potato Museum in O'Leary, Prince Edward Island to see their new machinery display and their threshing machinery. 

http://www.peipotatomuseum.com/site/tour/machinery.htm