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  1. The Start of Farm Machinery
    • Gears and Wheels
    • Water Wheels and Turbines
    • World’s Oldest Machine
  2. The Farmers Get to Saskatchewan, 1890 - 1910
    • Here They Come...
    • What Opened the West
    • Want to Go for a Ride?
  3. Enter the Farm Tractor…Exit horses, 1910 – 1945
    • First Came Monster Steam Tractors
    • Internal Combustion Engine
    • A Variety of Brutes
    • Rubber Tires, PTOs
  4. Machines and More Machines, 1945 - 1975
    • A Machine for Everything
    • Refining and Streamlining
    • Interview with Mr. Wowschuk
  5. From Way of Life to Business, 1975 – 2006
    • Sky High Capital and Input Costs
    • Wild New Ideas for the Ag Industry
  6. The Future
    • Where Machines are Going
    • No More Putt-Putt?
    • Are Farm Machinery Cooperatives the way of the future?
    • Cost-benefit analysis of shared machinery in Canada
  7. Conclusion and a “What’s-It?
  8. Other Machines Image Gallery