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- "Case Machinery," 1918 -
- 1918
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"Case Machinery," 1918
- "Case Machinery," circa 1918 -
- circa 1918
- Collections - Artifact
"Case Machinery," circa 1918
- "Breaking Prairie Sod With 'Case' 32 Horse Plow Engine," 1915 - Treeless grasslands covered 1.4 million square miles of North America, but crews with plowing engines like this created crop fields in short order. Work crews traveled from farm to farm pulling their equipment, a cook wagon, and fuel supplies. Others invested in "bonanza farms," intensely cultivating thousands of acres season after season. This system of agriculture destroyed the semi-arid plains ecosystem.
- 1915
- Collections - Artifact
"Breaking Prairie Sod With 'Case' 32 Horse Plow Engine," 1915
Treeless grasslands covered 1.4 million square miles of North America, but crews with plowing engines like this created crop fields in short order. Work crews traveled from farm to farm pulling their equipment, a cook wagon, and fuel supplies. Others invested in "bonanza farms," intensely cultivating thousands of acres season after season. This system of agriculture destroyed the semi-arid plains ecosystem.