Rural Heritage June/July 2025

VOLUME 50

JUNE/JULY 2025

NUMBER 3

Editor/Publisher Joe Mischka editor@ruralheritage.com Advertising ad@ruralheritage.com Editing Susan Blocker Subscriber Services subscribe@ruralheritage.com Regular Contributors Jenifer Morrissey Ralph J. Rice

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5 Publisher's Post 64 Business Spotlight ix Four Bonus Pages 78 J.C. Allen Archives 85 Associations

90 My Card 95 Calendar of Events 96 Breeder's Directory 97 RH on RFD-TV

Anne & Eric Nordell Danielle Londrigan Jerry Hicks Dick Courteau

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3 Cover Photo and Above: Dave and Sas Waldron of Pomeroy, Wash., drill wheat at the Palouse Empire Threshing Bee grounds in Colfax, Wash., in April 2025. — Rural Heritage Photos Features 8 Bob’s New Forecart...................................................... Bob Erickson 18 Timber Frame Barn ..................................................... Joe Mischka i Four Bonus Pages 24 Lessons Learned from an Old Timer............ Jacqueline Courteau 30 What an Affair................................................................ Ralph Rice 34 Cowboy’s Last Ride........................................................ Joe Mischka v Four Bonus Pages 40 Westport Carriage Museum ................................ Valerie Kirkwood 48 Palouse Empire Planting............................................... Joe Mischka 54 The Mares — Part 1.......................................................... Jerry Hicks 58 Mower/Cultivator Rendezvous.................................... Donn Hewes 68 Big Sky Expo Preview.................................................... Joe Mischka 74 Disposition and Heart ..................................................Joe Mischka

June/July 2025