By Terry Anderson, Midwest Messenger News Editor
In the early years of what was then Midwest Producer, we had a popular feature called “What’s This?” We published old or odd items found on the farms throughout our coverage area. Some of the senders had no clue what the item was. Others knew, but wanted to see if others did.
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