675,000 TRACTORS ON AMERICAN FARMS.
There are now over 675.000 tractors on U.S. farms, according to the best estimates of members of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers who have been making estimates based ou 1925 census figures, factory production and sales, annual wear out, trade-ins, etc. One of the national farm papers figures over 625,000 tractors at the beginning of 1927. Estimates of 189,000 manufactured in 1927, with 50,000 exported and 40,000 going into U.S. industry, while another 62,500 went to replace old models worn out and junked, leave 39,000 to add to the 625,000 already at work on the farm a year Probably these figures of replacements are high, as the population of the old models of ten years ago is small compared with the hundreds of thousands added the past five years. Hence, 675,000 is probably conservative. ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 39, 15 February 1929, Page 17
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