More than 2,000 visitors from throughout California and neighboring states are expected to attend the fourth annual Bygone Farming Days May 30-31 at the University of California, Davis, for a salute to old-fashioned farming techniques and machinery. Highlighting this year's event will be the Case tractor company's 150th anniversary celebration, including a tractor show and the products of a statewide high school tractor restoration competition. On display will be old Case tractors restored by eight high school FFA groups as well as the latest in new Case farming equipment Bygone Farming Days is sponsored by the UC Davis Antique Mechanics Club. During the event, university students will demonstrate wheat harvesting and threshing using working horse and oxen teams, vintage tractors and refurbished steam threshing engines. In addition to harvest activities, fiddlers, square dancers, cloggers, country swing dancers and singing groups will perform. A tractor rodeo also will be held. Children will be encouraged to try milking cows, squeezing apple juice, churning butter and baking bread. An animal petting farm and horse-drawn wagon rides also will be available. Wheat weavers and a blacksmith will be among the artisans demonstrating and selling their crafts. A variety of "down-home" food, including fresh-squeezed lemonade and corn bread, will be sold. Activities will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 31. Admission will be $4 for adults, $2 for students and free for children under the age of 12 if accompanied by an adult. Bygone Farming Days is held near a campus wheat field, just south of Interstate 80 at the UC Davis exit. Free parking will be provided. Proceeds from the event will benefit the UC Davis Antique Mechanics Club, a student organization that collects, restores and exhibits machinery and tools used during the early mechanization of California agriculture. The club has collected more than 1,500 pieces of equipment, from horse-drawn plows to early gasoline engines. More than 75 machines have been restored to their original operating condition.