Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A horse-drawn McCormick-Deering hay rake being pulled by two draft horses. The driver is well dressed for the photograph, wearing a white shirt, vest , and a brimmed hat. A farmstead with large buildings can be seen in the distance over the...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A horse-drawn cultivator. The three-mule team is being driven by one man in a hat riding on the driver's seat of the cultivator. The corn being cultivated is about 12 to 14 inches high. A vast expanse of corn yet to be cultivated can be seen behind...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A tractor driver and Iowa State Professor J.B. Davidson looking at an Iowa integrating and recording traction dynamometer, mounted on the linkage between the tractor and the piece of farm machinery being pulled. The farm tractor has rubber tires....
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A four-row corn planter being pulled by a steel-wheeled tractor. The photograph is a close up of the part of the equipment which mounts on the front of the tractor. The photograph was taken April 27, 1931.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A tractor-mounted six-row cultivator seen from the rear. One man is driving the tractor.One man is also seated on each of the two rear sections of the cultivator, one on each side of the machine. The machinery and the tractor have steel wheels....
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A tractor-mounted six-row cultivator seen from the front. One man is driving the tractor.One man is also seated on each of the two rear sections of the cultivator, one on each side of the machine. The machinery and the tractor have steel wheels....
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Dale Wollsoncroft demonstrating plow adjustment at a training event in State Center, Iowa, in the spring of 1949. A crowd of men is gathered around an instructor who is kneeling on the ground at the front end of a plow that is in turn connected to...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
Two Ford tractors linked together as a single drivable unit and hitched to a five bottom plow. The machinery is sited in front of Davidson Hall. Ten men are looking at the machinery, another is sitting in the driving seat of the power unit. Another...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A driver on a steel-wheeled tractor pulling a plow with an unusual chain gearing system. A tree line in the background is the boundary for the field of corn stubble being plowed.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A driver on a steel-wheeled tractor pulling a plow toward the horizon through an unplowed field. Two automobiles are in the field in the far left distance. Another tractor is in the far right distance. A tree line on the horizon defines the edge of...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
The operation of a pulverator and drill in an untilled field. The tractor pulling the machinery has unusually light and narrow steel wheels. The photograph is from the rear. A roadway fence line at the edge of the field is in the middle distance.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
The operation of a rotary hoe, used for early cultivation of corn. The hoe, weighted with four weight boxes, is being pulled by a Farmall rubber tired tractor. The machinery is moving away from the camera across a very large field of very young...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A steel-wheeled John Deere tractor with a cultivator mounted on the front. The driver on the stationary tractor is posing for the camera. In the background is a field of mature height corn.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A rubber tired tractor with an attached field cultivator preparing a seedbed for corn. The tractor is stationary without a driver. It is viewed at middle distance from the rear, in the middle of a large field, untilled except for where this...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
An Oliver Row Crop 70 tractor with a mounted cultivator and a two- hopper planter hitched behind. The set up is designed for one operation seedbed preparation and planting. The tractor is without a driver but stopped in mid-field. Cultivated fields...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A Farmall tractor with a spring tooth weeder hitched behind for early cultivation of corn. The driverless tractor and weeder are seen from behind. The tractor is stopped midway through a cultivation process in the middle of a field of one foot tall...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A demonstration of plowing with a six-horse and mule hitch, a technique that reduces side draft and increases efficiency. A large gathering of men are on both sides of the furrow as the driver plows ahead toward the end of the field on the image...
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A close up view of the left front side section of a cultivator mounted on an Oliver tractor. The driverless tractor sits astride a sidewalk and backed against a brick building.
Farm Equipment; Agriculture; Iowa State University;
A rear view of an Oliver tractor with a spring tooth weeder rear attached for cultivating. However, the ground is snow covered. The tractor is parked head in against a brick building.
