McCormick-Deering Disk Harrow Model
McCormick-Deering Disk Harrow Model
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- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- hay loader model
- four bottom gang plow model
- walking plow model
- disc (28) harrow model
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 12 in x 21 in; 7.62 cm x 30.48 cm x 53.34 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0818.04
- accession number
- 1986.0818
- catalog number
- 1986.0818.04
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Roger W. McIntire and Mrs. Ellen J. McIntire
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Agriculture
- Agricultural Equipment Toys
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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