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    Home » Recipes » The Amish Editor

    Throwback Thursday: Southern Michigan

    Published: Sep 25, 2014 · Updated: Sep 24, 2014 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

    southernmichThis is an old photo that I took back in the summer of 1991 near where Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio meet, actually close to the towns of Camden and Reading.  This is actually a photo of a photo, some the image quality is degraded a bit.  Some of our more farm familiar readers might be able to tell us what this is.  Looks like an old open cart with maybe a sprayer tank of some sort on the back?  I'm not sure and I can't remember.  I was on assignment for a magazine called Michigan Country Lines.  Remarkably, the magazine still exists.  This is an area, by the way, that has been seeing a slow, steady growth in its Amish population.   There's been an Amish presence for years in this area, but Amish communities farther west in southern Michigan are growing in size more rapidly.

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    1. Carol Crowe Phillips

      September 25, 2014 at 4:24 pm

      It does look like a sprayer. Could be for almost anything even portable irrigation. I've seen similar setups for use with tractors but not recently. When I was growing up(in the 70's and 80's) lots of people around here (E. TN) raised tobacco on a smaller scale than is done most places now and some used something akin to this to spray it. Just an educated guess though so I could be totally wrong!

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    2. brenda

      September 25, 2014 at 11:12 pm

      looks like the weed sprayer that was used after the crops got too tall to use the cultivator.

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