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...butt for dreary jests, a homely beast to look upon, the U.S. mule-4,500,000 strong-is again coming into his own. Farmers, threatened with a tractor shortage, are buying mules. The U.S. Army is getting set to bargain for more than 15,000. Dealers in such mule marts as Memphis and East St. Louis, Ill. think a mule boom is in the making...
...tractor-drawn stone-picking machine has been invented, whose revolving teeth can remove as much as twelve tons of egg-to head-sized rocks per hour from the top three inches of soil. Produced by Otis F. Reiter, a onetime Maryland farm boy with a piercing memory of stone-picking backaches, the machine has been hailed by farm journals as the greatest agricultural invention since the tractor. In this machine some experts see hope for a revival of Eastern agriculture, whose decline they blame largely on stony soil. Stoneless soil is 18% more productive than soil 30% full of stones...
...painted the most vivid picture of the Russian effort: "White-helmeted infantrymen armed with automatic rifles and dragging metal ammunition cases be hind them on the snow, shuffling ski troops, cavalrymen on heavily furred horses, with rifles strapped to their backs and brass-handled sabers rattling by their sides, tractor-drawn supply sleighs and powerful howitzers, long columns of tanks and caterpillar troop carriers slogging past the wrecked debris of recent battles...
...times life size. The photographs came from U.S. scenes as far apart as Boulder Dam and Vermont. The battleship at the top came from the picture files of LIFE; airplanes came from the Paramount picture I Wanted Wings. The California farm worker at left glances back at a caterpillar tractor from Washington which has just passed over a Montana wheat field nestling at the foot of Glacier National Park's Going to the Sun Mountain. The mother in central panel is an Idaho farmer's wife. The sky above her is from Montana. The moppets below are migrants...
...caterpillar tractor was found hidden in the woods and idle for three months, though $650 a month rental was paid...