An Amish farmer drives a team of horses pulling a manure spreader across a field for an early-spring application of fertilizer in Anthony Township, near Washingtonville, Pa., on Monday morning.
JAMESPORT, Mo. -- To most people, a horse-drawn manure spreader might be at best a piece of nostalgia. For Melvin Graber, an Amish farmer who moved to northwest Missouri's Jamesport area from ...