SEGMENT: FARM EQUIPMENT & CROPS
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- FARM EQUIPMENT
- Description of gang plow (2 plows) drawn by team of 4-5 horses/mules. Kept using gang-plow for many years after he had tractors. Last mules "went to the killers." First tractor was 1936 Farm-All. Mentions equipment incentives for buying early tractors, cultivator or disc. Discussion of learning how to work on tractors. Used Case-Snapper 2-row corn-picker & later a one-row New Idea. Many repairs done by dealers who come to farm in recent times.
- CROPS
- Agro-Chemicals; Corn Borers; Changes In Farm Equipment; Weeds