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A growing number of people are collecting antique manure spreaders brochures and other farm memorabilia. It doesn't matter whether or not these souvenirs and keepsakes are old printed advertisements, metal or paper signs, a mint condition brochure for antique manure spreaders can be a great collectible.

Collecting Antique Farm Memorabilia

While it takes to very deep pockets to buy and sell real antique new idea manure spreaders and antique wood John Deere machinery, not to mention researching all those antique tractor parts, just about anyone can collect farm memorabilia. Many farm families and former equipment dealers and employees often keep souvenirs of the machines they owned or worked with.

It is not uncommon to find a loose flyer or manual hiding away in a trunk or shoved out of sight in a box in the corner of a barn depicting antique manure spreaders, tractors, hay wagons and balers in robust black and white. Most memorabilia is worth little more than just simple nostalgia pieces.

But if occasionally, a collector with a sharp and discerning eye for detail will come across an advertisement or signage for a rare model of John Deere tractor. Or better still something displaying an early model antique New Idea manure spreader.

American farmers turned inventors, Joseph Oppenheim and Henry Synck developed the first commercially available manure spreader in the 1800s. The New Idea Company (under various owners and names) has made the spreaders and other mechanized farming machines ever since and recently celebrated its 100 year old anniversary in 1999 as a division of the AGCO Corporation.

As you can tell any type of keepsake or toy or advertising that depicts any antique farm tool, machinery or equipment is not only valuable for its own sake but could also be of interest to both collectors of full size tractors or well as farm toy enthusiasts.

Types of Farm Memorabilia

Collectors have various ways to organize their collections:

• By brand or manufacturer

Like John Deere, New Idea or International Harvester. This type of collecting is the most popular for both ease of organization plus displaying a whole set of green John Deere replicas has a certain visual appeal.

• By machinery type

Tractors vs. hay balers. This is the next most popular method; since people normally want to buy toys or items that match the type of equipment they remember the most fondly like tractors.

• By age

Vintage manure spreaders (20-30 years old) vs. antique manure spreaders (75-100+ years old). The age of collection is often set more by budget restrictions than any other factor since true antiques are often out of price range of a beginner collector.

• By individual preference (a collector just likes the way the advertisement or sign looks or it reminds them of personal memory.)

In any of the cases mentioned above, investing in farm memorabilia be it vintage dealer signs or posters of antique manure spreaders, you can see how this simple hobby can turn that old trash in the attic into a treasure or two.

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Tractor (Board) $16.44 Introduces tractors, discussing what they do, different types, and their parts, in a book shaped like a tractor. On board pages.

Tractor Ted $6.97 " Tractor Ted " is a brightly illustrated title in Barron's " Fast Forward " books for toddlers. The bright color illustrations on the first of the book's three two-page spreads unfolds to display moving parts. " Tractor Ted " actually moves, as it pops out from a red barn.

That's Not My Tractor... $3.95 -- This adorable 'touch-and-feel' book has bright illustrations and patches of different textures. -- Babies and toddlers will delight in turning the pages and touching the 'feely' parts of the tractor. -- Helps develop sensory and language awareness.

Tractor $14.38 Fun keeps zooming along as children enjoy this tractor board book with wheels. Full color.

Tractor Factory $11.66 Praise for "Tractor Factory": "For young kids with a fascination for mechanics, "Tractor Factory" will be irresistible."-"American Bookseller" Lower the engine Fit the front loader Test the backhoe Take a tour of the amazing tractor factory and watch them build the perfect tractor. Includes bold, colorful illustrations and surprise moving parts on every page. Elinor Bagenal was born in the Kenyan outback. She went to school in the United Kingdom and studied music and dance. She is a talented musician and has traveled all over Europe with a dance band as well as all through Africa. She set up a children's book shop in London and was a children's editor for many years. Steve Augarde was born in Birmingham, England. He is an illustrator, musician, amateur mechanic, and a genuinely original paper engineer. His illustration work includes thirty children's books, as well as advertising, comic strip, and animation drawings for the BBC. His music includes work in semiprofessional bands, mostly jazz, playing guitar and double bass. Steve is married to a midwife and has two daughters.

How to Keep Your Classic Tractor Alive $26.35 You and your tractor; it was love at first sight, and you've been the perfect pair ever since. But sooner or later, the old iron's going to show its age. It sputters and coughs, oozes grease, wobbles on its wheels, gets rusty, and sometimes even dies. That plow that came with the tractor is still just an incomprehensible pile of parts gathering dust in the corner of your shed. Never fear. This is a relationship that can be saved--with the help of the How to Keep Your Classic Tractor Alive, a book that tells you everything you need to know to keep your old iron chugging happily along. Now revamped with all color photography and a new design, the MBI classic covers all the basic questions and crucial aspects of buying, owning, rebuilding, and using an old tractor, from maintenance and troubleshooting to plowing methods and trailering. Trying to decide which tractor is right for you? Author Spencer Yost suggests ideal models for work, collecting, or both, and all of his invaluable advice is accompanied by full-color photography. Looking for a parts supplier? An extensive revised and updated appendix will help you track down everything from repro carburetor parts to steering wheel restoration shops. This is a resource no old-iron enthusiast can afford to be without.

Tractor By Gardner, Charlie (EDT)/ Quasha, Jennifer (EDT) $12.62 Introduces tractors, discussing what they do, different types, and their parts, in a book shaped like a tractor. On board pages. Author: Gardner, Charlie (EDT)/ Quasha, Jennifer (EDT) Publication Date: 2010/06/21 Number of Pages: 10 Binding Type: Hardcover Grade Level: Preschool Language: English Depth: 1.25 Width: 7.25 Height: 8.50

Tractor (Hardcover) $12.32 Each spread in this little flap book asks questions about how the tractor works, what it does, and more. Lifting the flap reveals both a simple answer and a longer one for the more curious or older child. At the end of the book the wheels fold out, the body pushes out, and the entire tractor turns into a stand-up model!

One Tractor: A Counting Book $9.17 In his own backyard a toddler imagines and counts vehicles and machines, from 1 tractor to 10 bicycles. Pirates sail in on 3 floating boats; 5 big trucks are ready to pull; 6 city buses are Stopping, going all day long. He joins in the action, sitting in a basket hoisted by 4 cranes, helping firemen in 7 fire truckshosing red hot flames away from a woeful dragon. A few pictures may be too cluttered for thepreschoolers to grasp at first (its hard to count the 10 bicycles that are locked closely together in the rack). But with its simple rhyme and nicely detailed pages, watercolor spreads, the book does give children an apportunity to recognize the kind of imaginative play they engage in every dayas well as join in the counting action that hapens on the pages.

Samson Tractor $133.82 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Samson Tractor was a division of General Motors from 1917 to 1922.GM, under the leadership of Billy Durant, purchased the company in 1917 to emulate the success the Ford Motor Company and others were having building tractors. In 1918, GM purchased the Janesville Machine Company of Wisconsin, which also made farm equipment, and in 1919, GM decided to shut down operations in Stockton and run both companies as one operation, the Stockton Tractor Company of GM in Janesville, Wisconsin. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 214 Publication Date: 2011/04/20 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.49 inches

Tractor-Trailer Trucker: A Powerful Truck Book $3.95 Learn how to hook up the tractor and the trailer, measure tire tread depth with a dime, and chow down at a truck stop.

Usborne Farmyard Tales: Wind-up Tractor Book. $13.59 Author: Stephen Cartwright.RRP: 16.99.Three tractor stories from the Farmyard Tales series with a twist! With pop-up characters and a wind-up tractor this interactive book will be a joy to read.Format: Hardback.ISBN: 9780746084267.Published: 28/09/2007.Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd.Genre: Children Activity/Puzzle, Children Gifts/Seasonal.Total pages: 14.Free delivery by post.

The Gobble Gobble Moooooo Tractor Book: Tractor Book $15.59 No Synopsis Available

Little Tractor (Wind Me Up) $7.49 Little Tractor has a lot to do today and little hands can help him. Wind up the toy, put it on the track inside the book and watch Little Tractor go!

My Big Book of Trucks and Diggers By Caterpillar Tractor Company (COR) $12.62 Bulldozers Excavators Dump trucks All of the very biggest trucks are in here. This book offers an upclose look at ten amazing machines that dig, scoop, lift, and more. Toddlers will also learn the words for all of the very important parts that help the big trucks and diggers go Author: Caterpillar Inc. (COR) Publication Date: 2011/03/16 Number of Pages: 20 Binding Type: Hardcover Grade Level: Preschool Language: English Depth: 0.50 Width: 8.00 Height: 8.00

Johnny Tractor's Animal Opposites $3.95 Read along with Johnny Tractor as he explores the different kinds of animals found around Merriweather Farm, from the big and little to the loud and quiet. Little readers will have big adventures with this fun shaped board book.

The Tractor in the Haystack: Great Stories of Tractor Archaeology $17.46 For the aficionado of farm equipment, or the scion of an old farming family nostalgic for the old days, or the grown-up boy who still loves a classic piece of old-time machinery, the vintage tractor can be a thrilling find like no other. This book tells dozens of stories of such discoveries, of the treasured old tractor parked in a shed since 1927, of the pristine model unearthed at an estate sale, of the broken-down old beauty stashed in a barn where generations of children have made their secret hideaways. These are the classic tractors that are often as hard to find as a needle in a haystack--but far more fun to discover, as all of these delightful stories make abundantly clear.

Farm Tractors: The History of the Tractor $18.76 Here is the complete illustrated history of the farm tractor, from the steamers of the 1850s to the current monstrous machines. Whether you're someone who has farmed or someone simply with a love of the land, this book will give you a new perspective on the enormous influence of the tractor upon the American farm and culture. Detailed descriptions of tractors especially significant to each period, essays on events defining the times, personal stories, memorabilia, and old black-and-white photos of farm scenes make this a complete look at one of America's greatest innovations.

Johnny Tractor's Fun Farm Festival $11.69 The Fall Festival is coming, and Johnny Tractor and his friends have so much to do. Help them get Merriweather Farm ready for the festival in this exciting movable board book--readers can push cardstock machines on a track across every spread of the book to help Johnny Tractor and his friends get the farm ready.

My Terrific Tractor Book $16.89 No Synopsis Available

Wind-up Tractor Book $29.24 No Synopsis Available