The Heringer Heritage Collection

 A prime example of a farm implement that transitioned farming from high labor to more mechanical processes.  This particular example is on wheels to be moved around the farm easily and had multiple tools attached to a belt driven engine.

 This 1915 John Bean Spray Rig is powered by a small engine and was an integral tool for pest management in the old fruit tree orchards of California.  This particular piece was curated from Santa Clara, California, where the dominant industry used to be fruit tree farming.

 The John Deere “Honey” Wagon was in actuality a horse driven manure spreader that farmers would use to spread fertilizer over their soils.  Spreading manure was not everyone’s favorite job, but calling it a “Honey” Wagon lightened the load a bit.

 The disc cultivator was one of the early innovations that made it much easier for a farmer to farm more ground.  This tool was horse driven, where the farmer could sit behind his horses as the discs softened up the ground and broke up and dirt clogs.

 The horse drawn planter was a major improvement for farmers in the late 1800s and saved them from hours of back breaking labor.  The two row Planter could have been used for a variety of row crops including corn or beans.  This particular piece of equipment can be dated back to 1890 to 1920.

 The Wine Barrel Wagon is a freight wagon carrying a large wine cask that would have been used by early winemakers in Napa and Sonoma.  Winemakers used these large casks for aging wine.  This wine cask was curated from the cellar of the Louis Martini Winery in St. Helena.  Now it is mounted at the entrance of Heringer Estates.

This International Harvester mower is a great example of early mechanization in our agricultural history.  Farmers in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s would use this horse drawn mower to cut their alfalfa and forage grasses. 

The TD-40 Tractor, created by International Harvester, was a useful tractor for farmers around the turn of the century.  This example was purchased by the Heringer family in 1937 to work the silty soils of the California Delta. 

The Tumblebug Scraper is a horse drawn dirt mover similar to a Fresno Scraper, used by farmers at the turn of the century.  Dirt movers like this one, were instrumental in building the levees in the Sacramento River Delta. 

Horse Drawn Seeder Wagons made planting fields or spreading fertilizer easier and faster for the California farmer.  This particular seeder wagon was a part of the Heringer family farming operation of the 1890s and now is a prominent piece of interest on the family estate.