Near this location in the 1930's James E. Love and Horace D. Hume of Garfield, Washington, invented the FLEXIBLE FLOATING CUTTERBAR and the TINED PICKUP REEL to harvest low-growing, fragile crops. These devices were developed for the local crops of dry peas and lentils and were then adopted nationwide to soybeans and other low-growing crops that tangle and lodge. These mechanisms reduced dry pea harvesting costs by 28% and crop loss from 50 to 10%. These inventions were reported to save the equivalent of 2,750,000 acres of soybeans annually.

DEDICATED
BY THE
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERS
JUNE 1993