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Niles, Donald E. (ed.) / The Wisconsin engineer
Volume 48, Number 3 (November 1943)
Hagen, Hobart I.
Agricutural [sic] engineering, pp. 6-7
Page 6
A gricutural Engineering -Courtesy John Deere Co. Farmers will see plenty of this machine after the war when production can be unrestrict- ed. First commercially produced in 1936, about 1500 of these field forage harvesters are now on American farms. They make haying a one-man job, with that man driving the tractor, and the machine doing its own pick-up, chopping, and loading. The field harvester is a four-purpose machine, and with the right attachments it can handle dry hay from the windrow, standing green crops for grass silage, windrowed straw left by the combine, and standing corn for silage. With all attachments and a crop blower the forage harvester can replace the hay loader, hay fork and barn hay equipment, ensilage cutter, and corn binder. It also produces chopped feed that can be stored in half the space whole hay would take. THE WISCONSIN ENGINEER 6
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