Fordson Tractors

Tractors, like everything else, were probably scarce and expensive during the war, but a Grand Trunk Railroad freight train that stopped in Ainsworth on August 7, 1918, left a car loaded with Fordson tractors sitting on the Ainsworth siding.

The tractors had been ordered by William H. Wood of Deep River. When last we saw William, the year was 1901 and he was catching a stupid criminal. Since then, apparently William had taken commercial advantage of the internal-combustion-engine craze; by 1920 he would describe himself as the manager of his own garage.

The Gazette warned its readers: "Seven [tractors] are all that was allotted to this section" — by whom, it didn't say — "so the farmers expecting to buy one of these tractors at the present price of $770, or who would like to see them demonstrated, should be at Ainsworth this week Saturday. The price will be higher later on."


Sources:
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "Local Drifts." Hobart Gazette 9 Aug. 1918.