Not really, they only built about 121,000 of them. Although AC did run one of the better ad campaigns leading up to the horse being retired. In fact through the war years (to 1945) including crawlers AC from it's start in tractors only built about 500,000 tractors. No one tractor company was responsible for the horse being put out to pasture.
So add the 500,000 AC's to the just over a million IH tractors plus about 550,000 to 1941 from JD and we are no where near the 35,000,000 farmers. And the other makers darn sure didn't account for nearly 33,000,000 tractors.
Guys we as a group look at the history of farming with tractors because we as a group like tractors. And no one really documented the decline of the horse. When you talk WWI and II you hear about how they were used by the military and how they helped the US produce enough food to export to our allies. And they were significant in that it allowed more land to be tilled by one person. And still no one documented the decline of the horse.
And TF is right. A lot of these innovations did put a lot of farmers out of business. But one the other hand a lot of those farmers who disappeared really disappeared not because of equipment but because of lifestyle changes. The idea of working sun up to sun down in a subsistence operation (raising enough to survive on only selling excess) was dying out. People wanted a better life than making clothing out of feed bags and nothing but work.
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