Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Power to produce. - Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., [1960] - xiii, 480 p. : ill., plates. ; 24 cm. - Its Yearbook of agriculture, 1960 . - Yearbook of agriculture (Washington, D.C. : 1926) ; 1960. .

Contents
Power in the past
Revolution in agriculture
A stout man to bear on
Tools of former day

Power in the present
The development of the tractor
Using wheels to move loads
A machine is produced
The place of petroleum
Electricity comes to farm

Power on the land
Remaking the land
Machine for clearing land
Engineering for drainage
Aids for irrigation
Modifying soil profile

Power in the harvest
Swift untiring harvest help
Outrunning time
Preparing of products

Power and livestock
New barns for old
Environment of animals
Machine to help with chores
Engineering the farmstead
Change on the range

Power in the market
The right product
Changes in market facility
Mechanization of handling
Railroads trucks and ships
Measuring and keeping quality

Power and efficiency
Efficiency of lab our
Development and application
Engineering and biology
Cost of farm machinery
Cost of farm buldigs

Power and its effects
Technology and its effect
Financing capital requirements
Agribusiness in the machine age
Change and employment
Machine and farm organization

Power in the present
Mechanization and automation
System engineering in agriculture
Machines for new crop
Marketing in the future
Electric and telephone



Includes index

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Farm mechanization--United States.
Agricultural implements.
Agricultural machinery.
Power (Mechanics)

Dewey Class. No.: 631.3 / POW