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Cool Machines Ten Tractors and Farm Machines
Find out all about ten amazing farm machines!There are lots of ways machines can be cool. They can be the biggest, the smallest, the tallest, the longest and even the noisiest. Machine mad kids will love pouring over the details of the ten awesome machines in each book. Fantastic Five stat panels give the scoop on what makes these machines tick and key design features are highlighted to help you earn something new about your favourite diggers, tractors, trucks and emergency vehicles.Perfect for readers who can't get enough of books about machines, but who have outgrown the simple picture books aimed at a much younger level. Those who are beginning to read by themselves will find the text fun to read and accessible.For children aged 5+
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Debber Learns About Tractors and Farm Machinery
<p>Debber has done a lot of traveling in her eight years, but she's never seen tractors and farmland as big as what she sees near her family's new piece of land in Illinois. Her Daddy takes her to Alliance Tractor in Newton, Illinois to see many of the large pieces of farm machinery up close. First Debber learns that crops grown and livestock raised in the "Heartland of America" feed not only the United States but the world. She learns about the planting cycle, how important watching the weather is and how much hard work farmers do. Debber also finds out how tractors and other farm machinery help with the hard work of farming. She sees and learns about tractors, combines, seeders, planters and sprayers, as well as the many attachments of some equipment (like headers and sickles). Debber and Daddy make even a trip to a tractor store fun and educational.</p>
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Farm Tractors The Case Guide to Tractor Selection, Operation, Economics and Servicing
Despite the fact that the farmer spends more on machinery than anything else except the land and despite the fact that he spends more on tractors than on any other machine, there are few books on the choice and operation of tractors to fit modern farming conditions. Most of this book is about farming and how to fit tractors to the individual situation. Those sections are completely unbiased and Case are happy to sponsor such a book in the wider interests of sensible, more productive and safer use of tractors and machinery. Where the Company's views are expressed it is clearly stated as such. This is mainly in the area of design detail and then only for the sake of being concise and brief. The first part of the book is concerned with relating the needs of the individual farm to specific details of tractor performance. Later chapters deal with policy on size, numbers and replacement. This section is a major development specifically about tractors. It is developed from the author's work Farm Mechanisationfor Prl!fitwhich deals with machinery in the wider sense. Later chapters of this book are related to profes sionalism in operation, maintenance and care.
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John Deere
Born in Rutland, Vermont, John Deere served a four-year apprenticeship to a blacksmith and worked in that trade until 1837.The implements being used by pioneer farmers of that day were cumbersome and ineffective for cutting and turning the prairie soil.To alleviate the problem, Deere and a partner, Major Leonard Andrus, designed three new plows in 1838.The plow was so successful that by 1846 Deere and his partner were selling a thousand a year.Deere then sold his interest to Andrus and organized a plow company in Moline, Illinois.After experimenting with imported English steel, he had a cast steel plow made for him in Pittsburgh.By 1855 he was selling more than 13,000 such plows a year.In 1868 his business was incorporated as Deere & Company, which is still in existence today.
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John Deere
Introduces the life of John Deere, including his childhood on a Vermont farm, his work as a tanner and blacksmith apprentice, and his invention of a new, more efficient type of plow that eventually led to his founding a company and opening his own factory.
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John Deere's Powerful Idea The Perfect Plow
Have you ever seen a John Deere tractor? John Deere's farm equipment brand is famous around the world, but it wasn't an easy path to turn his ideas into reality. Readers will love learning the story behind the name as they follow along with John's beginnings as a blacksmith, obstacles in business, and eventual massive success.
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John Deere's Powerful Idea The Perfect Plow
Have you ever seen a John Deere tractor? John Deere's farm equipment brand is famous around the world, but it wasn't an easy path to turn his ideas into reality. Readers will love learning the story behind the name as they follow along with John's beginnings as a blacksmith, obstacles in business, and eventual massive success.
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John Deere's Powerful Idea The Perfect Plow
Have you ever seen a John Deere tractor? John Deere's farm equipment brand is famous around the world, but it wasn't an easy path to turn his ideas into reality. Readers will love learning the story behind the name as they follow along with John's beginnings as a blacksmith, obstacles in business, and eventual massive success.
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Tractors and Farm Vehicles
This fun series on favourite vehicles for young readers presents bold design and big pictures together with essential facts and figures. A range of activity ideas extend learning and understanding.
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Tractors and Farm Vehicles
This fun series on favourite vehicles for young readers presents bold design and big pictures together with essential facts and figures. A range of activity ideas extend learning and understanding.
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White Deer Ghost of the Forest
The gracefulness of the white-tailed deer draws us to them. We love to watch deer as they graze, lifting their heads alertly, and when they're startled, leaping away with their tails flagging. This beauty is surpassed only by the rare white ones of their kinds.
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