The Pasto Agricultural Museum will be looking ahead as much as back during Penn State's Ag Progress Days, Aug. 14-16, as it prepares for an addition that will more than double the size of the facility. With construction scheduled to begin this fall, the new addition will be 52 feet wide by 100 feet long and will add 5,200 square feet of floor space to the existing 40-foot by 80-foot museum, located at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

New for this year's Ag Progress Days is a display of old forestry and timbering tools. Among items shown will be a black-powder splitting wedge, two different types of two-man crosscut saws and various old saw blades, including a rotary blade.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

This is part of the new lumbering exhibit. It shows a marking axe used to delineate sold timber at a lumber yard.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

Elsewhere in the museum, curator Dawin Braund demonstrates a foot-powered wood lathe. The lathe has the manufacturing date etched on it. It was constructed Aug. 26, 1887, in Bald Eagle Valley, Centre County. Note the traces of the original red paint and black trim.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

Better tie up the dogs. This pooch-powered treadmill provided the energy to operate the washing machine, front, and the barrel butter churn, back. Note the primitive agitator on the washing machine. The museum has more than 1,000 rare and unusual pieces used for farming and homemaking in the era before electricity and gasoline power.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

Speaking of butter, this is a butter work. The base and roller are made of rock maple. The roller was used to work out the whey from raw butter straight from the churn. It also allowed the farmworker to form and shape a butter roll.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

This milk cart contains a couple of Penn State and State College dairy milk cans.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

An ornate wood-and-cast-iron butter churn hangs on a wall.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

This cherry seeder is from the vintage household items section of the museum.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

Chair? Nope. Hall hat and chest storage unit? Nope. This handsomely finished cherry-wood item is a goat-milking station. The goat hops up on the chest; her head is secured in the stanchion and the milker sets to work.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007

This teddy, constructed of cast-off burlap bags, is part of the children's section at the museum. The museum will be open during Ag Progress Day hours -- 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 14, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 15 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 16. Admission is free.

Photo Credit: Greg Grieco

Year Taken: 2007