Let’s Get Some Changes Made

Reader Contribution by Sam Moore
Published on January 15, 2015
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The January, 1945 issue of Farm Journal magazine offered $5 for each idea that readers sent in for changes in equipment they’d like to see made after the war when things were promised to be much better. Some of the ideas submitted and published through the rest of the year are listed below. After each is my estimation of how much improvement has been made during the past seven decades.

  • Put grain drills on low wheels so I don’t have to lift up every sack of seed or fertilizer. Success! Not long after this suggestion appeared, implement manufacturers began to put grain drills on low, rubber-tired wheels, while today’s seed and fertilizer caddies and auger carts have made lifting and dumping those sacks a thing of the past.
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