The Pasto Agricultural Museum

Shaeffer, Merkel & Co. one-horse power treadle driving an 1870s thresher sits in front of a 1999 270 horsepower combine.

One-hundred-twenty-five years of grain harvesting technology -
a just-restored Shaeffer, Merkel & Co. one-horse power treadle driving an
1870s thresher sits in front of a 1999 270-horsepower combine in Penn State's
Farm Operations wash building.

"Twenty-Five Years and Growing"

Namesake: Jerome Pasto

For more information contact:

Daryl K. Heasley, Volunteer Curator
139 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600
814-863-1383
mailto:pastoagmuseum@psu.edu

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