I'm a little too young to know anything from that far back, but growing up as a school kid in the 70's out here in the OK Panhandle, we had a big neighbor farmer who still farmed the "old" way.
On the school bus, many times we passed his small procession of LA Cases and D JD's each pulling a small one-way plow as his crew moved from field to field.
He'd use them to keep the ground clean and then plant dryland wheat in the fall. I never remember seeing him fertilize.
Of course, since one-ways tend to clean the ground of all plant material, and in this arid area it doesn't grow back very fast, a lot of people place a lot of the blame for the Dust Bowl years on that type of farming practice. I agree it sure made it worse...
One of my friends said occasionally he'd bring cokes out for the tractor drivers... And then make them split a coke between each two of them! ha...
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