At first, I thought this old stripped-down Toyota Tacoma with an enormous wooden plow was some improvised war machine, but its mission is far more wholesome and happy. The truck was modded for a ...

Jireh Rowley, and their families. The land they came to was covered with billowing prairies that proved challenging for its settlers to plow. The wooden plows that had worked fine in the sandy ...

Plows that actually inverted and mixed soil layers weren’t invented until the 17 th century. By the 18 th century, U.S. farmers had taken to oxen or horse teams that pulled crude wooden plows to ...

Not surprisingly it was a South Bend resident, James Oliver, who was responsible for simplifying farmers’ lives by revolutionizing plow design. Prior to the 1850’s, farmers used wooden plows ...

Given that history of reform, Anhui should be wealthier than it is. But farmers still use water buffalo and wooden plows. Young people have left to look for work in the cities, leaving behind only ...

The above machine consists of a rotary plow and seed planter, invented by Theodore T. Woodruff, of Watertown, N. Y., who has taken measures to secure a patent, For this purpose several sets of ...