Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down most of the virgin timber on his farm, snaked it out by mules to his own sawmills, then ripped into the job of converting the land into dollars, fast and plentiful. He brought in eight tenant farmers-Joe does nicely with three farm hands-and urged them to plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when...
...could scrape together enough money to transport even that many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened economy. No longer are there abandoned Arab villages to be filled, no longer is there fertile land, once worked by the Arabs, to be brought to plow; there remain only the harsh lands of the desert and the stony hills of Galilee. Last week Premier Moshe Sharett warned against "ill-considered alarmism" over the Jews in North Africa, and the government made it plain that only in case of actual persecution of Jews would Israel...
...more than 250 years, the horse was to America what the sailing ship was to the British Empire: carrier of arms and men, of commerce, of mail. Harnessed to the plow, the horse helped the frontiersman turn wilderness into civilization...
...farm jobs have defeated mechanization. Peanuts and sugar cane are now mechanically harvested; there is even a machine to pull, top and load sugar beets. Some 60% of the plow market has shifted from two-bottom to three-bottom plows, which plow three furrows at a clip. Before World War II, a two-row cultivator was considered big; now the large size is four-row. One enterprising Iowa farmer has even welded together enough equipment to make himself an eight-row planter, thus spanning twelve acres an hour at 4 m.p.h. International Harvester has a new Electrall tractor with...
...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 hitching up a plow was once a backbreaking task-the heavy implement had to be lifted by several men, worried into position bolted into place. But on 1955's tractors hydraulic lifts make it a simple...