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AS I SAW IT.

PART XVII

By Rolland E. Maxwell

Route 4, Huntington, Indiana 46750

While there was still a demand in the grain belts of the west and northwest for large tractors, the tendency in the corn belt of the middle west was for smaller more diversified two and three bottom tractors. Grain was still being threshed, but the trend was for smaller 24 & 28 inch seperators powered by two and three bottom tractors which could be used for a variety of farm uses. Even in the later teens several companies were making tractors that drove from the front wheels, and the rear could be mounted on a farmers own horse drawn implements, such as a corn planters or two row cultivator. Those tractors were the Moline Universal, Indiana, Hoke, Allis Chalmers, Boring, La Crosse Model M, Mark V, Shawnee, and Mohawk.

Also were being made were regular motor cultivators, which also could be used for p...

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