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Then gadget-minded Bob invented a weapon to help him in his never ending battle to keep the mesquite trees from crowding out the grass on the range. This was a "tree dozer," an oversize tractor with a steel hand to snatch out mesquite. He supplemented this with a "rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later...
...past, Harvester would do the farmer's reaping, picking and binding, with corn-and cotton-pickers, beet harvesters, self-propelled combines. But like the U.S. farmer, Harvester had its eye firmly fixed on the all-purpose tractor. This year the company turned out 108,000 tractors, more than any other piece of heavy equipment. Next year it intends to cover the market, from the giant 18-ton, 170-h.p. diesel crawler to the midget Farmall Cub, selling for $545 f.o.b. (about $1,000 with attachments). The Cub was designed to mechanize some of the 3,300,000 U.S. farms...
...farmer was spending his money wisely. The bright sky might be the limit for what some would pay for a tractor or slightly used auto on the black market. But most of the farmers' spending was going into better living-running water, bathrooms, electricity and appliances, kitchen labor-savers. Nothing was too good; some farmers were buying airplanes and putting landing strips in their fields. Kansans were reaching for more land, as they always had in prosperous times. But now they were paying mostly cash; Kansans remember all too well the disasters of mortgage foreclosures in the early...
...nine of the 20 acres, and eight tons of feed worth ?1,200, had already been plowed under. As the tractor-driver reversed his machine and drove it out of the field, he shrugged his shoulders. "I have my orders," he said...
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...