Tractors really started becoming numerous around here (Central Siberia) when Fordsons came about in 1917. Almost every farm around had one. $750. Cost to produce one was $567.14. A government study concluded that it cost .95c per acre plowing with one vs $1.46 per acre with horses. 552,799 of them made. Horses remained on many farms as companion prime movers. I remember cultivating corn with a tractor mounted cultivator and my grandfather with a horse drawn sulky cultivator on opposite sides of the same field. I would always beat him to the middle but sometimes not by much. Ford bowed out of tractor making in the late 20s but came back with a vengence in 1939 with the famous 9N and its Ferguson System. By that time many other manufacturures had entered the market. Sales were huge, only slowed by WWII. After the war, horses all but disappeared from farm fields.
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Today's Featured Article - The Collection of a Lifetime - by Sherry Schaefer. The larest gathering of orphan tractors ever assembled by one collector will be auctioned off on May 15 in Rock Island, IL. Ed Spiess was a well known tractor buff who spent most of his time dreaming of rare and unknown tractors. His background as an agricultural engineer sparked his interest in the unique attributes of the models built from 1939-1959.
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