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| | MECHANIZATION OF AGRICULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | In the counties northwest of the line, the opposite prevailed: soil and topography suited wheat, the people were generally Midwesterners, most land was worked by owners, the population was fewer and scattered (compared to the total acreage under cultivation) and farms were larger. |
| | Love County, for instance, had eight tractors in 1928 and 150 in 1939. |
| | The greater percentage increase in southeastern counties is exemplified by the statistics for LeFlore (29 to 178), Pittsburgh (88 to 314), and Haskell (53 to 170). |
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