Word: corn
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...will slice through fields, cut and pile the hay in rows in a single operation, thus displacing (with a single operator) two men and three tractors, two mowers and a pair of hay rakes. Ford is working on a low-cost combine for medium-sized farms, a new corn picker that can be attached to the front of a standard four-wheeled tractor. Another new development: a machine called the Wonsover, which a Maine inventor named Herman Cohen will soon put into production. It was developed with the help of several companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric...
...state and county fairs years ago, the crowning events for U.S. farmers were such contests as corn picking and husking and a tug of war between horses. A fast-working champion could harvest corn at the rate of 100 bu. a day. But today's farmer has little interest in such events; with a mechanical corn picker, he thinks nothing of picking and husking 1,500 bu of corn a day. For machine-age farmers a big event at fairs is the tractor rodeo," in which farmers compete at starting tractors attaching implements, plowing the straightest, fastest furrows. Merely...
...story is the same in all farm counties. Since 1940 the number of tractors on U.S. farms has tripled to 4,500000. Combines jumped 400%, to 950,000; corn pickers 500% to 640,000; forage harvesters 100% to 170,000; hay balers 100% to 393,000. For expanding dairy farmers, milking machines shot up from 212,000 to close to 800,000. All told, U.S. farmers, who had $3.2 billion invested in machines in 1940, have poured $18.7 billion into their barnyard automation, are adding millions more each month. As a result, each farmer grows enough to feed himself...
...hell." Four years after he reached São Paulo, Anderson, Clayton's plant became the biggest cotton compress in the world. By way of a hobby, he bought a little farm near São Paulo and started planting it, growing olives, plums, lemons, bananas, kumquats, corn and orchids. Impressed by the possibilities of tropical agriculture, he was unable to resist taking on CAFE'S lands when the chance came along in 1953. He resigned from Anderson, Clayton to work full-time on the new project...
...into production next summer, will refine ore (by the sulphuric-acid leaching process) from Mi Vida and other mines in the Big Indian Wash district, as well as from AEC's nearby stockpile. To finance construction, Steen will borrow $3,500,000 from New York's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, $6,200,000 from the New York Life Insurance Co., thus bring a major insurance company into the uranium business for the first time. Steen need not worry about customers: AEC will take the mill's entire production until at least...