International Harvester Company · [London, Ont.] : The London Print & Litho Co. · leaf 5
This tractor plowed 17.59 acres in 416 minutes, at the rate of 2.54 acres per hour, using only 2.11 gallons of gasoline per acre. This was the onlytractor with which they attempted to pull a 10-furrow plow in the heavy gumbo soil. Thirty ordinary farm horses would have been required to… … J UST think of the ad-vantages the present-day farmer has overthe one of a generationago. Instead of walkingin the dusty, monotonousfurrow and plowing 2% or3 acres a day, the farmernow rides on the platformof an I H C gasoline trac-tor, turning from 10 to 30acres per day, dependingupon the size of…
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 · Agricultural implements · Advertising · Printed ephemera
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