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| Wording of plaque for Event #12, The Farmall
Row Crop Tractor, Int. Harvester Agric. Engr. Center, Burr Ridge, IL
A HISTORIC LANDMARK (Realistic depiction of tractor) THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ROW CROP TRACTOR INVENTED BY BERT R. BENJAMIN (ASABE MEMBER) WAS OPERATED AND TESTED ON THIS FARM IN 1923 INCREASED ROW CROP CLEARANCE AND OVERALL VERSATILITY EXTENDING THE USE OF THE TRACTOR TO CULTIVATING ACCELERATED THE CONVERSION FROM ANIMAL POWER TO MACHINE AND MARKED A NEW ERA IN AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY DEDICATED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS 1980 |
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