OK guys, go back in history. The vast majority of farmers used horses right up into the late 40's and early 50's. When tractors first came out they were way too expensive for the average farm. For example the Farmall regular was $825 when it first came out. Lot of farms were poor. Basically raised enough to feed themselves and make a little money on the side. Go back and look. Around 1940 there were about 35,000,000 farmers in the US. Now go look up production numbers. I'll bet you money that total numbers were no where close to 35,000,000 by 1940 TOTAL. Farmers were used to working 6 days a week dawn to dusk. When they were not tending to livestock or in the field they were fixing fences and cutting firewood. So when they finally went over to a tractor that little 23 HP tractor could plow about 1.1 acres an hour with a 2-12 plow. Heck of a lot of farms across the US were 140-160 acre dairies with 70-100 tillable acres. Figure about 1/3 of that in hay? Farmers back then thought that doing 60-70 acres in a week was darned good. Most of the guys buying SC's and similar sized tractors survived the Great Depression. Many were not spending one penny more than they had to.
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