Ford-Ferguson 9N Tractor Filling Silo, November 29, 1940
THF289462 / Ford-Ferguson 9N Tractor Filling Silo, November 29, 1940
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Artifact Overview
Dairy farmers raised silage crops, harvested them while green, and blew them into airtight silos to ferment them into high-energy feed. By 1940, they used tractors like the Ford-Ferguson 9N, to prepare the soil, plant the crop, cultivate it, and power the chopper-blower. This photograph shows a wagon load of grain sorghum ready to be chopped and blown into a concrete-block silo.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
29 November 1940
Subject Date
29 November 1940
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.833.P.74672
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Linen (Material)
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.063 in
Width: 10.938 in
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