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- Ford-Ferguson Model 9N Tractor Pulling a Combine, Macon, Michigan, November 1939 - Henry Ford acquired thousands of acres of farmland in southeast Michigan, collectively known as the Ford Farms. Much of the Farms' acreage was dedicated to one of Ford's agricultural interests at that time: soybeans. This 1939 image shows a tractor-drawn combine harvesting soybeans in Macon, Michigan.
- November 01, 1939
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Ford-Ferguson Model 9N Tractor Pulling a Combine, Macon, Michigan, November 1939
Henry Ford acquired thousands of acres of farmland in southeast Michigan, collectively known as the Ford Farms. Much of the Farms' acreage was dedicated to one of Ford's agricultural interests at that time: soybeans. This 1939 image shows a tractor-drawn combine harvesting soybeans in Macon, Michigan.
- Man Harvesting Wheat Using a Ford-Ferguson Tractor with Combine Attached, Indiana, August 1940 - Ford Motor Company introduced the 9N tractor in 1939. It featured the "Ferguson System:" a 3-point hydraulic hitch-and-lift system invented by Irishman Harry Ferguson. Ferguson's revolutionary hitch kept agricultural implements, like the combine seen here, in line with the tractor. It also provided stability. By 1940, nearly 8 percent of tractors sold in the U.S. were 9Ns.
- August 05, 1940
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Man Harvesting Wheat Using a Ford-Ferguson Tractor with Combine Attached, Indiana, August 1940
Ford Motor Company introduced the 9N tractor in 1939. It featured the "Ferguson System:" a 3-point hydraulic hitch-and-lift system invented by Irishman Harry Ferguson. Ferguson's revolutionary hitch kept agricultural implements, like the combine seen here, in line with the tractor. It also provided stability. By 1940, nearly 8 percent of tractors sold in the U.S. were 9Ns.
- Sheaf Fork - Pitchforks worked as extensions of farmers' arms, allowing them to skewer, lift, and move larger quantities of hay, sheaves of grain, or straw than they could do with just their hands. They used different fork designs for different jobs. Two- and three-tine forks like this (with short metal points) worked best to pitch bundles of grain from field to wagon to thresher.
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Sheaf Fork
Pitchforks worked as extensions of farmers' arms, allowing them to skewer, lift, and move larger quantities of hay, sheaves of grain, or straw than they could do with just their hands. They used different fork designs for different jobs. Two- and three-tine forks like this (with short metal points) worked best to pitch bundles of grain from field to wagon to thresher.
- FMC Cascade Tomato Harvester in Use, circa 1985 -
- circa 1985
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FMC Cascade Tomato Harvester in Use, circa 1985
- Japanese Men and Women in the Strawberry Fields, California, 1921-1922 - This seemingly innocuous photograph was taken to support an article in <em>The Dearborn Independent</em> attacking Japanese farmers' supposed control of the fruit-growing industry in California. Comments on the back expose its true purpose. Harry H. Dunn, a freelance writer, penned the article. With the support of the paper's editors, he also wrote some of the defamatory anti-Jewish articles for Henry Ford's weekly.
- 1921-1922
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Japanese Men and Women in the Strawberry Fields, California, 1921-1922
This seemingly innocuous photograph was taken to support an article in The Dearborn Independent attacking Japanese farmers' supposed control of the fruit-growing industry in California. Comments on the back expose its true purpose. Harry H. Dunn, a freelance writer, penned the article. With the support of the paper's editors, he also wrote some of the defamatory anti-Jewish articles for Henry Ford's weekly.
- FMC Cascade Tomato Harvester in Use, circa 1985 -
- circa 1985
- Collections - Artifact
FMC Cascade Tomato Harvester in Use, circa 1985
- One Row Corn Planter, circa 1855 - Farmers planted corn in hills during the 19th century. That started a year-round effort to raise food for livestock and farm family. Some used single-row planters like this. Then they cultivated with a shovel plow until corn was knee-high. They then planted squash or pumpkins to keep down weeds and retain moisture (a form of double cropping). At harvest they husked ears (to feed pigs) and shocked stalks (to feed cattle).
- circa 1855
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One Row Corn Planter, circa 1855
Farmers planted corn in hills during the 19th century. That started a year-round effort to raise food for livestock and farm family. Some used single-row planters like this. Then they cultivated with a shovel plow until corn was knee-high. They then planted squash or pumpkins to keep down weeds and retain moisture (a form of double cropping). At harvest they husked ears (to feed pigs) and shocked stalks (to feed cattle).
- Trade Catalog, "Price List of Extra Parts for Regular Continental Reaper," 1897 -
- 1897
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Trade Catalog, "Price List of Extra Parts for Regular Continental Reaper," 1897
- Threshing at the Ford Homestead, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1936 -
- November 13, 1936
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Threshing at the Ford Homestead, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1936
- Threshing at the Ford Homestead, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1936 -
- November 13, 1936
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Threshing at the Ford Homestead, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1936