Thursday, January 25, 2018

America Giving Tractors to France, 1918

“Spring Plowing in France Will be Done by Tractors from America,” from the Jackson County Journal, Sylva, N.C., Jan. 18, 1918.

To increase France’s crops and to lighten the burden of toil on her old men, women and children, 1,500 farm tractors will to go that country from the United States. The first hundred are already on the way, and the whole number will be in France by March, in time for the spring plowing. Deck space was provided for the first shipment on a naval transport. Schools of instruction will be organized.

The acreage sown to crops in the uninvaded portion of France in 1917 was about 10,000,000 less than in 1913, or 24.4 per cent. The increased production through the use of tractors this year is expected to greatly improve the food situation.

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