The Tractor and Its Influence upon the Agricultural Implement Industry

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Plows WHEN you see the womenfolks traipsing along Main Street wearing pill-box hats stuck up with goose quills or upside-down coal scuttles draped with little tomatoes and poison-ivy leaves you throw up your hands and wonder wherever these crazy notions will stop. Men may not wear such fool clothes, maybe,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Plows WHEN you see the womenfolks traipsing along Main Street wearing pill-box hats stuck up with goose quills or upside-down coal scuttles draped with little tomatoes and poison-ivy leaves you throw up your hands and wonder wherever these crazy notions will stop. Men may not wear such fool clothes, maybe, but how about plows ? Do you know that there are just as highfalutin notions in plows? Well, there are. The out-for-the-vote sex may have gone in for multifarious fashions in clothes in the course of a few decades, but so has the farmer gone in for multifarious types in plows. And still does. Down in your valley, or up in your hill country, you may not see so many different sorts and shapes and makes?possibly not more than a dozen different kinds. There may be a couple of types of riding plows, half a dozen varieties of walking plows, and some little old eight-inch plows that a farm chunk can pull along comfortably. There may be a few gang plows about of different makes?probably one or two of the bigger farmers have engine gangs. New big and little tractor gangs began pouring into the market in 1914 and by the spring of 1916 there was a teeming diversity of them. Also, very likely there is at least one man in the neighborhood who is trying out a deep-tilling device. But your general impression is that plows is plows, just as pigs is pigs. That isn't so at all. There are more different kinds of plows than there are breeds of dogs. There are immensely more selected types of plows than there are selected breeds of dogs, pigs, dairy cattle, beef animals and horses. In one of the big plow establishments I visited in Moline, Illinois, I was informed that they made and carried in stock about 1000 varieties of plows. A neighboring plant carried about half a hundred ...