Bulldozer Proves Valuable on Farm, Says Watauga Farmer, 1948

By Frank Jeter, Extension Editor, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, as published in the Wilmington Star, June 10, 1948

Speaking of mechanization on the farm, Henry Taylor of the Vale Crucis community in Watauga County says that these bulldozers are proving to be a valuable farm implement.

In 1940, a freshet washed a number of deep, unsightly holes in the creek bottom pasture near his farm. The flood covered the land with loose stones of all sizes. In fact, it practically ruined two acres of his best pasture.

The other day he hired a bulldozer to level the tract, fill up in the holes, and cover or move the stones. He says the improvement in the looks of his place is worth the cost, to say nothing of having the land ready for reseeding to pasture grasses. And so it appears that mechanization is coming steadily and surely to lighten the burden of the North Carolina farmer.