Cultivator

Cultivator. . Emerson-Brantingham was innovative in offering specialized implements for specialized purposes. Included was this 1919 model of its No.1 Beet Cultivator, a unit designed especially for the purpose. It was intended to cultivate four rows at a time. Emerson-Brantingham also built a few copies of a motor cultivator. Before it had fully developed a tractor-mounted design, the company was bought out by J. Case Co., in 1928. The term "field cultivator as we know it today" did not come into general use until after World War II. World War II is the great dividing line between horse-powered Agriculture and mechanized agriculture. Granted, major strides toward farm mechanization were made in the 1930s, but these were considerably stifled by the Great Depression. Under the extreme circumstances of those years, farmers were forced to get by as economically as possible, there simply was very little money for anything but dire necessities. On its heels came world war two and the demands of war put an effective end to most farm machinery production for several years. After hostilities ended in 1945, it took a couple of years before farm machinery production could again resume. When it did, many of the small manufacturers were gone, never to return. Of those remaining, some contioued producing horse-drawn machinery until about 1950. , , Cultivators of some sort have roots in antiquity, dating back to the earliest of farm implements. In modern times, meaning in the period from 1850 onward, the cultivator received major attention. A study of U.S. Patents reveals literally thousands of patents granted for cultivators and their attachments.