95.04

Gauge, Rain

1953

Ferry and Kuyper Implement Rain Gauge. Material: metal. Size: 4 1/2" W. x 4 1/2" H. Description: white enameled metal; bracket on side for glass rain catching tube (missing); black printed information across front: "Rain-Gauge Recorder-Ferry and Kuyper Impl., Allis Chalmer and Gehl, Phone 10, Waseca-Minn."; printed vertically along left side numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, markings indicating fractions of inches; silver colored metal dial at top to record rain.

Waseca business: Ferry and Kuyper Implement, Allis Chalmer and Gehl. Dewey Ferry and Elmer Kuyper owned a farm equipment store in Waseca during the 1950s.