There was very little farm equipment made during the war. Plus the farm economy was booming suppling the war effort. It took several years for the factories to get switched over to full farm equipment production. Tractors where still ration into 1946.
The way the raffle auctions would work was like this. The auctioneer would sell the piece just like he does now. That would determine the price. You bid just like you where going to be buying the piece. When the top bid was in the auctioneer would ask all the people that would pay that for the piece to put their name on a piece of paper and they would draw the "winning" name out of a hat. That person would pay the high bid on the auction item.
Then in the heart of the war 1943-1944 there where even price controls on used items too. There was a list of how high a tractor or planter could sell for. Some things did not have price controls. An example of this was chickens. So there where many auctions around here where you bid on a coop of ten chickens that happened to be setting on the hood of a truck/tractor. You where legally paying for the chickens but got the truck/tractor thrown in.
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