[AT] Oliver /brochures WHY????

[kgw]

It would have been around 1936 when my Dad (well, Paul's, too for that 
matter!) left the farm at 18--that was when the first tractor was bought 
on that farm!  Wasn't a case of laziness on Grandad's part, it was just 
a case of not enough kids around to get the work done!

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Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois USA



Danny Tabor wrote:

>Ralph,     Its neat breaking out those old books I'll
>sometimes spend hours reading and dreaming over them
>      My favorite is the Book of Oliver. There were 3
>of them and are now highly sought after. Mine has
>everything Oliver came out with for 1929. It shows the
>3 tractors for that year 18-28, 18-27, and the 28-44.
>What is really neat is during that time tractors
>weren't all together accepted by farmers, whether it
>be financial reasons or beliefs, and so not only does
>the catalog have the tractor equipment listed but it
>also has the full line of horse drawn equipment. My
>book is the second in the series of three. How I'd
>love to have the first and third.
>        Along the same line,(farmers beliefs) I have
>to look as I'm not certain if I have this or if I'd
>seen this brochure in somebody else's collection. It
>advertises a walk behind cultivator and insinuates
>"for the farmer who's not lazy"//////// neat stuff 
>Danny Tabor
>--- Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
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