1. J. L. ANDERSON is a graduate student in the Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program at Iowa State University. The author wishes to thank those who consented to be interviewed as well as Dr. Hamilton Cravens and Leah Tookey for their helpful comments on an early draft of this article.
2. 1 Standard sources for the development of harvesting and combine technology include R. Douglas Hurt, American Farm Tools From Hand Power to Steam Power (Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 1986) and Agricultural Technology in the Twentieth Century (Manhattan: Sunflower University Press, 1991); and Graeme Quick and Wesley Buchele, The Grain Harvesters (St. Joseph, Mich.: American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1978). Thomas D. Isern details the rise and eventual dominance of combines on the Great Plains in Bullthreshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the Great Plains (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas); J. Sanford Rikoon discusses the beginnings of combined harvesting-threshing in Threshing in the Midwest, 1820-1940: A Study of Traditional Culture and Technological Change (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988). A model study for Iowa farm mechanization in the twentieth century is
3. 2 "McCormick Deering Take-Off Combine," Farm Implement News, 27 March 1930; "John Deere No. 5 Combine," Farm Implement News, 29 May 1930; "The Fleming-Hall Baby Combine," Farm Implement News, 7 August 1930; "Allis-Chalmers Announces 'Baby' Combine," Farm Implement News, 20 November 1930; Charles H. Wendel, The Allis-Chalmers Story (Osceola, Wis.: Crestline Publishing, 1993), 66.
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