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Horsepower doesn’t always require spending $3.00 a gallon to keep moving. Visitors to the Amish Heritage Center’s Steam Threshing event will find horsepower is good for lots of chores around the farm.

August 2-3

•July 31, 2019•

By Chic Friar
for the News Progress

The Steam Threshing days set for August 2-3 at the Illinois Amish Heritage Center near Arthur will feature a chicken supper 4:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, August 2.
The supper will feature chicken, mashed potatoes, noodles, green beans and drink and is being prepared by Terry Warren Catering of Sullivan. The show runs from 1-8 p.m. on Friday and from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, August 3.
New this year will be a horse treadmill and broom corn threshing. The horse treadmill is used to transfer horsepower to operate a variety of machinery via a power shaft coming direct from the treadmill. Also new this year will be broom corn threshing and broom making.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.