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In 1910, there were perhaps fewer than 1,000 tractors on U.S. farms. Five years later the count was 25,000, and by 1919 U.S. farmers owned 158,000 tractors.
Still, the impact of tractors on the agriculture of 1920 was minor. A survey that year counted tractors on only 6 percent of farms in six Corn Belt states.
The tractor age did not truly begin until the 1920s, when manufacturers started introducing 2- and 3-plow general-purpose tractors. Only then did tractor power become practical for the typical farmer with a quarter section of land.
My early experience was with a steam engine for power. The John Deere tractor being used here to power the thresher is the same one used to work in the field the rest of the season.
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