1905: Preparing the Land for Seeding

By Harvey Cashmore
In the early days, you could get onto the land much earlier with oxen and horses than you can with a tractor.  

Here is a young man driving two steers pulling an 8-foot disc to prepare the land for seeding. It was a slow and dusty job. You could disc at approximately two miles per hour and you could complete approximately 10 acres a day if you were double discing.

After that came the 10 foot drill with 4 oxen to do the seeding. You could do approximately 25 acres a day. You must remember that you would have to stop to rest, feed and water your livestock throughout the day as well.

Seeding time was a very busy time for the pioneers and is still a very busy time for our farmers today.