200 North Main St | Bloomington, Illinois | 309-827-0428
200 North Main St | Bloomington, Illinois | 309-827-0428
This late May 1936 scene shows James Moberly (though which individual is James is unknown) of Funks Grove Township grinding valves and fitting new rings on his McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor. Moberly was preparing the tractor before his corn was ready for cultivation.
Sap from the sugar maple begins to run during the warmer days and cold nights of February and March. Early settlers—and before that Native Americans—boiled the sap from sugar maples in groves throughout McLean County.