Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop. Dennis ran towards him, cursing and shouting...
Said the stranger: "I have my orders. The County Agricultural Committee have ordered me to plow in this buckwheat." Then he went on plowing...
Stop That Tractor. Telephone wires quivered. Officials scurried. In the buckwheat field the implacable plow buried the rich crop in deep furrows. At 11 o'clock a flustered Farmers' Union official raced into the field. "Stop!" he cried. He brought a counter-order from the Farmers' Union, after consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture...
...says the County Agricultural Committee can prosecute a farmer for disobeying cropping "advice," as it is called. The Committee might have ordered Farmer Dennis to plow in his buckwheat while it was green. But time passed and the Committee did nothing. Instead it let the buckwheat ripen. Then it acted. Obviously the Committee had bungled. From the depths of official seclusion, Committee Secretary Roger Sayce sent out a message: "Mr. Sayce has nothing to say about buckwheat-nothing whatever...
...foot which Young Henry put in the soil last week also came down hard on the neck of an angular Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson. In 1939, Ferguson, who had perfected a hydraulic lift device to keep tractors from turning over when the plow hit obstructions, became old Henry Ford's "only partner." Ford had stopped making his Fordson tractor in the '20s when it lost money. But for Ferguson, Ford made 306,181 tractors, this time with the Ferguson lift. They were sold exclusively by Ferguson, Inc., which relied heavily on Ford dealers...