10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GANGPLOW»
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Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California ...
With an Underwood gangplow, wheat farmers could plant much larger acreages.
Immediately they set about copying, improving, and expanding on the apparatus.
Soon it was purchased by two Stockton-area entrepreneurs, H. C. Shaw, ...
Richard Steven Street,
2004
The next step up in mechanization is introducing the sulky or gangplow, seed
drills or mechanical seeders, binders, and bull threshers. Each piece of
equipment can be added without need for the rest. Thus, a village can pay for the
next piece ...
3
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
... apparently derived from a hoe (note the two handles); (4) a Sumerian crook
plow with "ears," no stilt visible; (5) general type of primitive Greek crook plow; (6)
modern Cypriote crook plow; and (7) modern gangplow. Note joined beams in
nos ...
Robert William Fogel,
2002
4
Transactions of the California State Agricultural Society
C. D. Benjamin—One sack Excelsior wheat. Mrs. I. R. Wilbur—Shell frame with
moss wreath, seed frame with Autumn leaves. . Jones & Hewlett—Sulky
gangplow, “Irish Champion.” Miss Fannie Sargent—Pencil drawnigs. Mrs. ,Lot-
tman-Plum, ...
California State Agricultural Society (Sacramento, Calif.),
1873
5
The Spirit of St. Louis
I never felt safer, and never came closer to being killed than when a gangplow
turned over behind my tractor. It was on one of those May days "when leaves on
the oak trees are as big as squirrels' ears," and it was "time to plant corn.
Charles A. Lindbergh,
1998
The gangplow was gone. She swung the barn door open and ran out onto the
gravel. She scanned the horizon until her eyes lit upon a figure in the distance
beyond the farmhouse, in the east field. A cloud of dust was trailing behind it.
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The Spirit of St. Louis
I never felt safer, and never came closer to being killed than when a gangplow
turned over behind my tractor. It was on one of those May days "when leaves on
the oak trees are as big as squirrels' ears," and it was "time to plant corn.
Charles A. Lindbergh,
2003
8
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Agriculture, any of the bottoms of a gangplow. gang board see gangplank. gang
chart Industrial Engineering, a chart depicting the simultaneous acitivies of an
entire work crew and/or group of machines. Also, gang PROCESS CHART, ...
Christopher G. Morris,
1992
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The rise of the city: an urban approach to world geography
The tractor-drawn gangplow and other mechanized farm equipment have so
revolutionized twentieth-century agriculture that those societies using them have
become urbanized. What seems to be the relationship between mechanization
and ...
Frank M. MacGraw, Dean L. Phelps,
1971
10
Provin' Up: Adventures on a South Dakota Homestead
... a gangplow attached to it, broke eighty acres on Marie's quarter section and
seventy on George's. Mike Green, owner of the sod breaker, explained the
process to George. “The way we handle Dakota sod is to turn the virgin soil over
in a ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GANGPLOW»
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Director Jay Kriss on Harvesting the High Plains
We went in to get cutaways — tight shots of a rod weeder cutting weeds, a gangplow turning grass over, tractors running, and extras working in ... «Studio Daily, Mar 12»