The operation, care, and repair of farm machinery : practical hints for handymen /

This comprehensive classic text, originally published in the early 1900s to assist farmers and farm mechanics instructors, was the first book to deal exclusively with the operation, care, and repair of farm machines. Divided into six distinctive sections ranging from the preparation of the seed bed...

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Corporate Author: Deere & Company
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Preparation of the seed bed
  • Plows
  • Disk harrows
  • Harrows, pulverizers, field cultivators
  • pt. 2. Planting
  • Grain drills
  • Corn planters
  • Cotton and corn planters
  • Listers
  • Potato planters
  • pt. 3. Cultivating
  • Rotary hoes
  • Shovel cultivators
  • Disk cultivators
  • Listed crop cultivators
  • pt. 4. Harvesting
  • Grain binders
  • Combine harvesters
  • Corn binders
  • Ensilage harvesters
  • Corn pickers
  • Potato diggers
  • Mowers
  • Hay rakes, loaders, and presses
  • pt. 5. Power on the farm
  • Tractors
  • Farm engines
  • pt. 6. Soil fertility
  • Manure spreaders
  • Lime and fertilizer sowers.