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A modern manure spreader. A manure spreader, muck spreader, or honey wagon is an agricultural machine used to distribute manure over a field as a fertilizer.A typical (modern) manure spreader consists of a trailer towed behind a tractor with a rotating mechanism driven by the tractor's power take off (PTO).
A manure spreader. Joseph Oppenheim (March 1, 1859 – November 24, 1901) was an educator who invented the modern widespread manure spreader that made farming less labor-intensive and far more efficient in the early 20th century, [1] and only he is honored for that invention in the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame in Columbus, Ohio.
The "New Idea" caught on quickly because it relieved farmers of the back-breaking chore of manually distributing manure from a wagon. Mary Oppenheim died in 1907 [ 7 ] New Idea continued to grow and in 1908 the company moved to Coldwater, Ohio , where a railhead existed to ship the completed spreaders.
What should be done with the hundreds of thousands of tons of manure produced each year by the 2,000 or so horse farms in and around Wellington — enough to cover 50 football fields 3 feet deep.
Reorganized under the new name, it built a line of horse-drawn plows and other implements to serve the large American agricultural market. The implement line included wagons and carriages . The company absorbed various smaller wagon and carriage building companies.
The great horse manure crisis of 1894 refers to the idea that the greatest obstacle to urban development at the turn of the century was the difficulty of removing horse manure from the streets. More broadly, it is an analogy for supposedly insuperable extrapolated problems being rendered moot by the introduction of new technologies.
Horse-drawn manure spreader. Deere built 100 plows in 1842, and around 400 plows in 1843. In 1848, Deere relocated to Moline, Illinois, to have access to the railroad and the Mississippi River. By 1849, the Deere Company was producing over 200 plows a month.
John Deere plow c. 1845 Horse-drawn manure spreader. In early 1843, Deere entered a business partnership with Leonard Andrus [9] and purchased land for the construction of a new, two-story factory along the Rock River in Illinois. It used water power to operate machineries. [10]