Page 26 2024 Fall Farm Outlook Lincoln Daily News Oct 2024 focused, but with a hitch. He said for example the room will be used for essay and speechoriented classes for any focus of study at the college, but the hitch would be that in this room, everything written or spoken would have to have an agricultural theme. Downing also pointed out that in this room like others, there are projection screens with overhead projectors and excellent sound systems. When the tour was over, the class headed outside to conduct ribbon cuts for a special yard ornament at the complex. In 2021 the Lincoln Community High School FFA received a donation of a 1927 McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor from Dave Bishop of Prairie Earth Farms in Atlanta. Bishop gave the group the tractor in a very ill state, worn down, rusted, and in general looking like it might be time for the scrap yard. Students spent the next three class years working on the tractor and restoring it to its original beauty. The work began under the instruction of FFA advisor Allie Bode’ and was completed under the direction of LCHS Ag teacher and FFA adviser Molly Schempp. On Friday, Bishop, who is also an ag instructor at Heartland spoke about the history of the tractor. He said that the 1927 was among the first tractors to take the American farmer out of the horse age and into the age of mechanical power. He said it was a steep learning curve and not without some disastrous challenges. Bishop said that some of the specific instructions, such as “slowly let up on the clutch,” did not sink in well with farmers. Therefore they would set the clutch, put the tractor in gear, pop the clutch and kill the engine. It was a frustrating experience for the operator but also a dangerous one, because, many times, in frustration, the farmer would jump off the tractor and go to the front of the tractor to the hand crank that would re-start the Continued --
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