How the Steam Tractor Got to the Farm

The tractor was shipped from the McCormick-Deering factory by train. When it arrived at the depot, Daddy and the man who sold it to him were there waiting and they drove it off onto a loading platform beside the train tracks and down a slope to the ground. From the depot to home is three miles, which was about the distance that nine rounds plowing in the big bottom would cover, so the man drove it here and Daddy drove the man's automobile. People came out to watch as the tractor passed by, Daddy said, as most of them had never seen such a machine, this being the first steam tractor in the county.