14A D8 & Letourneau scraper

An 11-year-old youngster at the controls of this Caterpillar Twenty-Two Tractor keeps it on the soft listed ridges with ease. Hustling along at 3.6 miles per hour with the 5-row John Deere lister cultivator, means cultivating 60 acres of corn in 10 hours. With the cheap tractor fuel this Colorado owner uses, 3 cents an acre is the fuel cost.
  
 

 
The city of Rochelle, Illinois uses this Caterpillar Diesel No. 212 Motor Grader and it’s Traxcavator equipped Diesel D2 Tractor to level a city street.



 

That sure is a sad looking corn crop that little lad is cultivating, looks more like he's digging it out instead. Now corn is planted two inches apart and in narrow rows.

 OREGON-Hops
PEST FIGHTING the most efficient way according to Wigrich Ranch, Independance. Even in their sultry hop yard where cooling breezes can’t reach the Caterpillar Twenty-Two Tractor runs at the proper temperature for maximum fuel economy. Using only 1 1/4 gallons of low-cost fuel an hour on this job, reports the owner.

 YAKIMA’S FAMOUS APPLES getting their spring start with the Caterpillar Twenty-Two Tractor pulling 2 furrowers. Owner Dalton Boggess states, “We cultivate our orchard on time, and have time left over to do lots of work for the neighbors.”

Interesting difference in farming techniques. The 11 year old on the Cat Straddles one row so the cultivator is an odd number of rows. For those that used "Farmalls" wheel tractors straddled two rows with the trike wheels in front on the ridge.  The cultivators and planters were even numbers of rows.  I was curious how much root damage was done to the apple trees with the "ditching" which seems rather deep that close to the trees in the latter photo.