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GOUVERNEUR — William J. Siebels ran a beef and dairy farm in Fowler and delved in saddle horses long before he got seriously interested in draft horses.
“I purchased my first team in 1972,” said Mr. Siebels, treasurer of the St. Lawrence Valley Draft Horse Club, “and have been fascinated with them ever since. I enjoy working with the animals — spreading manure, logging, plowing. I even plant a little corn. It’s satisfying to accomplish something this way.”
The Draft Horse Club, founded in 1985 and currently boasting 70 members from St. Lawrence, Jefferson and Lewis counties, as well as several from Central New York, is celebrating its 26th anniversary this weekend with the annual Plow Days event, being held at 362 County Route 22.
Continuing today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., exhibitions and events will depict the way farming was done in the old days.
“It’s attractive to both the older crowd and the young people,” said Susan M. Willard, Marshville, the club’s secretary. “Older folks can remember how things used to be done. A lot of our members either have a background participating in farming or they can remember having horse-powered equipment around during their childhood.”
“To the younger people,” Mrs. Willard said, “seeing this is so different from what they’re exposed to today. They’re fascinated by the animals and what you can do with them.”
On display and fascinating to young and old alike Saturday was a sorghum press — a hybrid machine that uses a horse walking in a circle to squeeze the juice out of 7-foot-tall cornstalks. The juice then is boiled down, much like maple syrup, to produce food-sweetening molasses.
“A club member found that in a junkyard and we’ve had it restored,” Mr. Siebels said of the machine.
Nearby, Clinton J. and Nancy W. Walseman, Lowville, were admiring a team of draft horses pulling a machine that dug and separated potatoes from the earth.
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