McCormick-Deering Disk Harrow Model
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The nature of farming dramatically changed in the 20th century through what came to be known as the Green Revolution. From the 1920s-1950s farming productivity rose dramatically due to mechanization, fertilizers, chemicals (fungicides, pesticides, herbicides) and the hybridization of plants and animals. Agricultural innovations continue to be important to farming today. While the museum has over a dozen full-size tractors and other pieces of farming equipment, most technical developments of the 20th century are represented in the collection through toys and models.
label: Description (Brief)
content: An unknown maker manufactured this model of a McCormick-Deering disk harrow around 1944. Models like this could be hitched to a model tractor and operate like the real thing.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Agricultural Equipment Toys
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content: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. Roger W. McIntire and Mrs. Ellen J. McIntire
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0818.04
label: accession number
content: 1986.0818
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0818.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hay loader model
label: Object Name
content: four bottom gang plow model
label: Object Name
content: walking plow model
label: Object Name
content: disc (28) harrow model
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 12 in x 21 in; 7.62 cm x 30.48 cm x 53.34 cm