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HORIZONS VOL. 7 • NO. 1
THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS • Page 3 Closeup of instrument panel of new Farmall 400 tractor. Hand is on Hydra-Touch lever, which operates the most versatile hy draulic implement control system ever developed for world's farms.
LL THAT'S PRODUCTIVELY NEW, today and to- degree of farm mechanization possible to be found anywhere. . morrow" — such is International Harvester's Prior ro the advent of the Fatmall, farm tractors were not /• standard of manufacturing. And IH, early in adaptable to row-crop cultivation and had a relatively limited Z-M 1955, again made big news in the farm equip- use on many farms. Intetnational Harvester long was dissatisfied -*- -m- ment industry, with the introduction of the with this basic shortcoming of the tractor and undertook extensive new Farmall tractor line in the United States experimental wotk to expand the application of mechanical power and foreign markets. This debut marked the to all phases of agricultute. first instance in the history of the industry that any manufacturer The result was the design and mass production of the Farm- ever unveiled a complete and entitely new line of tractors, with all — the first all-purpose fatm tractor built to fulfill every farm matched implements, at the same time. need for power, including row-crop cultivation. The Fatmall Termed "the greatest line of farm tractors ever produced," tractor made possible the horseless farm, and a new agricultural the new Farmalls include the Cub, 100, 200, 300 and 400 series — era dawned over the world. five basic tractors with 16 model variations. Replacing the former Constantly improved throughout the years, the McCotmick Farmall Cub, Super A, Super C, Super H and Super M-TA, these Intetnational Fatmall tractot line has been fully developed and new tractots boast mote power and greater work capacities than expanded, and today the 1955 line, with its complete atray of their popular predecessors, and are the unchallenged leaders in matched, ditect-connected, "Fast-Hitch" implements, again has all-purpose farm power, versatility and economy. demonstrated that the IH symbol stands fot "all that's produc Since 1924, the Farmall tractor has been a familiar sight in all tively new" — both today and in the tomorrows to come. See corners of the globe and has represented the most advanced Pages 8-9 of this issue for details of the new Farmalls. • • *
Largest of the new Farmalls, a 400 series tractor begins The farm is IH's extensive experimental station near test run on specially-constructed road at Hinsdale Farm. Chicago, Illinois. Tractor is pulling a tandem disc harrow.
J**"''*' •if** Workmen meet and shake hands as the "breakthrough" point is reached on the 3!4-mile Guthega-Munyang tunnel. The Guthega Dam is supply ing 60,000 kilowatts of electricity.
Australia's Monumental Development. . . THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS SCHEME
HERE'S A STIRRING BALLAD in Australia — Paterson immortalized the story of a famous ride, is acknowl "The Man from Snowy River" —that tells edged as Australia's most popular ballad. The horseman of the the story of the country's pioneer horsemen story lies buried in the little churchyard at Corryong on the and its mountain wilderness. For generations, Upper Murray River and his steed has vanished in the mists of T Australians have proudly passed on the bal time, but their memories are kept alive year after year by young lad. In homes and around the camp fires of and old of the Down Under country. the nation — and on the widely-separated battlefields of the In Paterson's language, the pioneer of the ballad was "a two World Wars — the narrative has voiced the national pride stripling on a small and weedy beast," and he hailed "from of rugged people in a rugged land. Snowy River, up by Kosciusko's side, where the hills are twice Today, "The Man from Snowy River," in which "Banjo" as steep and twice as rough, and the horse's hooves strike fire-
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Guthega Dam during construc tion period. Completed in De cember 1954, dam straddles swiftly - flowing Snowy River.
light from the flint stones every stride, and the man who holds frigid atmosphere and remembered a particular stanza of the his own is good enough." Snowy Mountains ballad: "The Man from Snowy River" did indeed come from a picturesque and spectacular region — the wild mountainous And down by Kosciusko, where the pine clad ranges raise expanse of the sparsely-settled Australian Alps with its lofty Their torn and ragged battlements on high; peaks, roaring gorges, sparkling streams and herds of cattle Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars and sheep grazing below the snow line. Fairly blaze at midnight in the cold, frosty sky, Located in the southeastern corner of Australia, the forbid And where around the Overflow the reed beds sweep and sway ding ranges of the Alps form the highest land mass of the To the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide . . . continent. They include the Snowy Mountains, which extend north to south for a distance of some 100 miles and rise to an The Snowy River rises on the slopes of Mt. Kosciusko and elevation of 7,305 feet at Kosciusko, the highest peak in runs for 320 miles to empty into the Tasman Sea. The surveyors Australia. and engineers found that the river received the largest shate of This summit was climbed in 1840 by Count Strzelecki, who the mountains' melting snows (the Snowy Mountains are named it after his Polish countryman and patriot, Thaddeus snow-capped for five to six months every year) and flowed Kosciusko. through an area of adequate rainfall to waste itself in the sea. Ranging with Mt. Kosciusko are other giants of the Snowy Mountains — Townsend (7,241 feet), The Perisher (6,720), Big Bogong (6,758), The Porcupines (6,320), Paddy Rush (6,300), Grey Mare (6,120), and New Chum (4,820). Downstream from Guthega Dam, International While these heights may not seem too significant when com TD-24 tractor moves earth on new route. pared with the world's highest, they stand out sharply in a continent mainly characterized by its flatness. Following Count Strzelecki, the Snowy Mountains saw a procession of stockmen seeking new pasture land, miners in quest of gold and parties of surveyors and engineers. Many of the latter groups visualized the vast benefits that would result when it would be possible to take the clear, torrential waters of the mountain rivers and streams across the ranges and bring them to the dry territory in the west. :f Perhaps, as these surveyors and engineers studied the tremendous engineering problems involved while working in the shadow of Mt. Kosciusko, they may have shivered in the £> mm The Munyang Power Station, below gigantic Guthega Dam, produces electricity for Sydney 1 area and is first of 17 stations completed.
As early as the 1880's, proposals to utilize the waters of the Snowy Mountains were centered around water for irrigation. However, between 1915-18, the New South Wales Department of Public Works carried out surveys with the thought of using the Snowy River for the generation of electricity for Sydney and the southeastern region of the state. In the 1920's, other proposals were considered, including one for the supply of water to Sydney and some country towns. These proposals, plus later ones, stemmed from regional interests rather than the full utilization of the area's water resources for the nation as a whole. World War II then appeared and plans for the Snowy River were shelved for the time being. In 1946, effective action came for the first time when ministers of the Commonwealth, New South Wales and Victoria, with their technical advisers, met to discuss the future of the Snowy waters. * * * THUS, FOR THE FIRST TIME, the use of the river was approached from the national viewpoint, with full attention given to both power and irrigation aspects. Extensive engineer ing surveys were ordered. A report in June 1949 emphasized the great significance of the power and irrigation possibilities of the Snowy River and lifted the entire program to a level of major national importance. The next month, ministers of the Commonwealth, New South Wales and Victoria met in Canberra. The result of the meeting was the passage by the Commonwealth Parliament of the high country on the eastern side of the Snowy Mountains. the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Power Act, 1949, which The waters thus impounded will be diverted through long established the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority. tunnels under the main dividing range into the western rivers, With the signing of the bill creating the Authority, the the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Tumut. wheels were set in motion for the creation of the greatest en Through this method, farms in the fertile Murray and gineering development ever undertaken in Australia — a devel Murrumbidgee valleys will be supplied annually with sufficient opment that ranks as one of the major engineering projects of water to cover 1,500 square miles to a depth of one foot. It is the globe. estimated this added water will produce foodstuffs annually Involved is an area of 5,500 square miles, approximately worth 25 million Australian pounds. 300 miles from Sydney and 400 miles from Melbourne. Known The Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers, and the Tumut as The Snowy Mountains Scheme, the development is so vast River — tributary of the Murrumbidgee — also rise in the that construction of its many sections will be spread over a Snowy Mountains. They flow generally westward to ttaverse period of 25 years at an estimated total cost of 422 million the dry but otherwise fertile plains which stretch for several Australian pounds. hundred miles to the coast of South Australia. It is by the The basis of the Scheme is the impounding of the Snowy diversion of more water into these river systems that irrigation River and its tributary, the Eucumbene River, where they leave will be greatly increased in an already well-established and prosperous food-growing region. At present, only 500,000 acre-feet of water is available annually for irrigation in the Murrumbidgee Valley — the most intensively irrigated area of Australia. By 1959, the diverted • -•^imgfi Winter snows blanket the Guthega Dam, first of 14 such structures to be built in Austra lian Alps under Snowy Mountains Scheme. ;,v: SNOWY MOUNTAINS. • ..; : ,'; i«»j Vital road is built in Snowy Mountains with help of Inter- ( l&Ji^ national dump truck and TD- <• 18A diesel crawler tractor. A,."" As the surging waters of the Snowy Rivet ate harnessed, built. Two towns will be lost when the valleys in which they and before they pass into the Murray and Murrumbidgee now stand will be flooded. systems, they will spin giant tutbines for the production of The Snowy Mountains Scheme consists of two majot divi hydro-electricity. The project eventually is expected to produce sions: The Snowy-Muttay Development and The Snowy- three million kilowatts of electricity — an amount greater than Tumut Development. the 1954 capacity of all generating stations in Australia. There are three main parts in the Snowy-Muttay Develop A team of technical experts has reported that the cost of ment — the main diversion of the Snowy Rivet at Jindabyne to hydro-electric power from the Snowy Mountains will be less the Swampy Plains Rivet in the Uppef Murray Valley, a group than the cost of powet produced from new thermal stations. of power projects in the Uppef Snowy Valley and anothet group From the point of view of power alone, the report stated, The of power projects in the Geehi Valley on the western side of Snowy Mountains Scheme will justify its expenditure, despite the main dividing tange. the forthcoming developments in the use of atomic power in The Snowy-Tumut Development also consists of three industry. main sections — the main diversion of the Eucumbene Rivet An interesting sidelight of this mammoth construction in the Snowy Catchment and the supplementary divetsion of project is the fact that it is anticipated that revenue from the the Tooma River in the Murray Catchment to Tumut Pond on power will be more than sufficient to finance the Scheme with the Tumut River; the use of the Eucumbene, Tooma and out making any charge for the supply of watet for irrigation. Tumut waters to produce powet as they flow from Tumut In all, plans call for the building of seven major dams and Pond down the Tumut River; and two powet projects involv seven smaller ones, 17 power stations (many of them deep ing divetsion of the Upper Murrumbidgee to the Tumut. underground) and 85 miles of large-diameter tunnels through The Jindabyne Dam on the Snowy Rivet will be 260 feet the mountains (some of the tunnels will be 40 feet in diameter). high and will stote 1,200,000 acre-feet of water, sufficient to More than 400 miles of aqueducts will be used to pick up cover an area of 2,000 square miles with a depth of one foot. mountain streams and lead their waters to reservoirs and Ranking among the largest earth- and rock-fill dams in the tunnels. world will be the Adaminaby Dam to be built on the Eucum Hundreds of miles of mountain roads and paths are being bene River near Adaminaby. The structute will provide an effective storage of 3,500,000 acte-feet of watet — more than eight times the amount in Sydney Hatbor — enough to cover ) **"?••:•-: . f v more than 5,500 square miles one foot deep. An outstanding feature of the Scheme is the vast quantity of water which will be reserved for use in years of drought. This reserve will be held in the major dams at Jindabyne and Adaminaby and a smaller dam at Tantangara. •S: ••-• , - Overlooking the Guthega Dam, Inter 1 national TD-18A tractor uses bullgrader : • ... V-rT /:•. • ..{ • — .V" .::\:V:.:.; ::.: *-**> 2r" *• <-^"W The total effective capacity of these teservoirs will be in Dandenong (Victoria) Wotks of the International Harvester excess of five million acre-feet, ot mote than five times the Company of Australia Pty. Ltd., plus L- and R-line trucks amount of watet flowing down the Snowy River each year at imported from IH factories in the United States, are being used Jindabyne. in road consttuction and for hauling essential equipment. An increasing population makes it vitally necessary that Also very much in evidence throughout the length and Australia — the driest continent in the world — gain the fullest bteadth of the Snowy Mountains are scores of McCormick possible control of her watet tesources and use them to the Intetnational wheel tractors and International power units, best advantage. products of IH's Geelong (Victoria) Wotks. When it is realized that the total avetage flow of all Aus When consttuction began, a shortage of skilled and un tralian sutface rivets ptobably does not exceed 60 million skilled wotkers presented a problem. This situation was met by acre-feet yearly, a figure small in comparison with the rivers of recruiting 600 men from Western Germany and employing a other continents, the importance of consetving the vety limited large number of newcomers to Australia. These men comprise water resources of the country can teadily be appreciated. a large segment of the laboting force which now numbers Fitst fruits of the Scheme were realized during Chtistmas 4,250 men. 1954, when the Guthega-Munyang Project, patt of The Snowy- Each year, as The Snowy Mountains Scheme completes Muttay Development, was completed. The project, with a project after project, Australian industry and agriculture are capacity of 60,000 kilowatts, is directing electrical power into greatly enriched and the countty's future security is steadily the New South Wales powet system and is easing the petiodic strengthened. "blackouts" that have plagued the Sydney atea for many years. Powet-statved industry is being given the means to expand, * * # and so is water-starved agriculture. New oppottunities are FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, International Harvester opening up for thousands of old and new Australians. equipment has been present in large numbers on the varied A rapidly-growing, virile young nation, by undettaking one and widely-scattered consttuction jobs. A total of 85 Intet of the largest water development programs in the world, is national crawler tractots (57 TD-24's, 17 TD-18's, 10 TD-14's making a major contribution to the welfare of its people — and one TD-9) have met and overcome exceptionally difficult and those of the free nations of the globe. * • * wotking conditions. The crawlets have been used for ripping and breaking down of steep slopes fot consttuction of access and main roads, for Preparing throughway for pipes connecting snow clearing and clearing of fire breaks in heavily timbered various dam systems in Snowy Mountains is ateas, for the levelling of town sites, fot gouging out track important task of the International crawlers. along steep mountain slopes preparatoty to laying major pipe lines and for the filling in of completed pipe lines. International crawlers, working at an altitude of 4,900 feet, cleared the fire breaks around the township of Cabramurra — the highest town in Australia. Ten TD-24's worked contin uously around the clock over a two-week period in the con struction of the road to Perisher's Camp on the Guthega- Munyang Project. International crawler tractors are not the only IH units at wotk on the sprawling Snowy Mountains projects. Many International AR and AL model trucks, manufactured at the •iVJX\ ; •:.-:-yix..:.:.,xx: r Greatest Line Ever^ . . . THE NEW FARMALL TRACTORS HE NAME FARMALL, given to the first all- comfort and ease-of-operation, the new Farmalls are powered purpose farm tractors mass-produced by by improved engines with higher compression ratios and increased belt and drawbar horsepower. Power plus multi-putpose use has always been a prime T factot in Fatmall design, and the new line has even gteatet International Harvester in 1924, is one widely known around the world as representing the power-packed versatility than ever before. first tractors literally to "fatm all" — a line The new Torque-Amplifier boosts pull-powet up to 45 pet that fulfilled every possible farming need. cent on-the-go without shifting geats. The new Hydra-Touch In 1955, the Fatmall name again makes histoty in agri and Touch-Control systems permit unexcelled hydraulic imple culture and in the farm equipment industry with the announce ment control, and the completely independent powet take-off ment of the fitst entirely new and complete line of farm tractors, provides non-stop performance of all power-driven machines. with matched implements, ever offered at one time. In addition, there is Intetnational Hatvestet's exclusive Hydra- The 1955 Fatmalls are described as "the greatest line of Creeper Drive on the Farmall 200, and the famous Fast-Hitch farm tractors ever built," as a result of the many great improve implement change coupling on all the new Farmalls. These are ments and exclusive IH features incorporated into them. From but a few of the major versatile-powet features of the 1955 series. the radiator to the drawbar, the new Farmall series has more The handy man of the Farmall family is the amazing Cub. new time- and money-saving developments than ever before This one-plow tractor, which permitted many small farms to seen in farm tractors. mechanize at a profit and made patt-time farming practical and In addition to distinctive functional styling, better driver pleasurable, has vastly-increased utility, durability and operat ing ease in its new design. New on the Cub is hydraulic Touch- Above: The new Farmall family lines up in parade Control, which takes the hard work out of farming. Live formation, with Cub in front and 100, 200, 300, 400 tractors to rear. Below: 400 model with disc harrow. - s > K S--< -.' ti&*3s£i * m The Farmall 100 is a one- and two- plow tractor designed especially for farmers with high-value crops. i,j_^ AJ ,,...„ 1 Attached is beet-bean cultivator. hydraulic power lifts and lowers implements on-the-go at the touch of a finger. No other ttactor in the Cub's power class offers so many big-tractor features. •-• 'fX " X~ ' xx[ . .••..i.y^fr;•:;) • ' ;.•:;;•; r"XH , Successor to the Supet A, the Farmall 100, with full one- or two-plow powet, has a drawbar increase to 19.5 hotsepower. As on the Cub and 200, hydraulic implement Touch-Control :! and power take-off are among the many fine features incor , • : :•••<;. 'v:-^x::mmux%m^ porated in the Farmall 100. And, both the 100 and the Cub have Culti-Vision, the direct row-crop view so important fot 'V 1>: **.*" fitst cultivation of tiny plants. SHPSllll * * * THE FARMALL 200 is a worthy replacement for the Farmall Super C tractor. Engine compression has been stepped up to deliver 22 drawbar horsepower and surpass what is already an outstanding record for fuel economy. The Hydra-Creeper Drive attachment, a unique feature of the two-plow 200, enables the the clutch or throttle. Independent power-take-off increases tractor to travel as slow as one-quarter of a mile per hour while the all-around efficiency of this super-powered tractor. operating at full throttle. The range of creeper speeds from !4 With the exception of the Cub, which has a gasoline to Ws miles an hour is of great importance to vegetable and engine only, the entire line is available with either gasoline, tobacco gtowets, nurserymen and specialized crop planters. kerosene or distillate engines. A diesel engine is also optional Supplanting the Supet H, the Farmall 300 is hailed as the in the Farmall 400. new champion in the three-plow field. The tractot offers 37.5 Undoubtedly one of the most important single features horsepower on the belt and 33 at the drawbar, and the highest now offered as regular equipment on the entire new Farmall compression ratio of any Farmall engine — 6.6 to 1. Such line is International Harvesters tevolutionary Fast-Hitch. exclusive features as Totque-Amplifiet, Hydra-Touch imple Fitst introduced on the fotmer Farmall Super C in 1953, ment control and independent powet take-off make the 300 this amazing implement couplet permits the tractor operator outstanding in its class. to attach or detach implements automatically in seconds with The "heavyweight" of the new Fatmall line is the 400, out leaving his seat. The speed and convenience of Fast- which now holds the position once occupied by the Super Hitch, plus a complete line of matching implements for every M-TA. Standard bearer of four-plow tractors, the 400 is rated tractot, makes the 1955 Fatmall line outstanding as a time- at 51 hotsepower on the belt and 45 at the drawbar. With ten saver so vital to modern farming methods. forward speeds provided by the Totque-Amplifier, the operator Feature by feature, the new Farmall tractors ate the unchal can change the speed of the 400 in motion without touching lenged leaders in the farm tractor field the world over. • * * '... . •".... • , -. •. . Above: Replacing the Farmall Super C is the Farmall 200 tractor, a two-plow, two-row machine. Right: Farmall 300 demonstrating* Fast-Hitch coupler engaging moldboard plow. -"^^ ^ U-Ai XX, * ..!:::ijj-H.-.".:=*=--=#-,;.i :;.•••:-• k.. • XX\:/7y^y-,:XSk'Cx-y I8S4 •:?. israreu* wisa-Sass SOUTH AFRICA —IH's affiliate company, International Harvester (S.A.) Pty. Ltd., has colorful float in Durban Centenary parade. = '! ' 1 Ml'-!*p DENMARK — Five McCormick International F-64 harvester-threshers photographed working in grain field at Randrup Hovegard in Jutland. WORLD NOTES . . . as caught by the camera « INDONESIA — Students of College of Agriculture, '* '• ^^fl Bogor, hear instructor explain features of Farmall Cub. 0 &,i'V. .-•.;..-fr-j mimxx^}"']" If HOLLAND — H. Englebert, N.V., IH distribu tor, presents new service van, with tool and parts sections open. Vehicle is International truck. ;««» 10 * * 3A*&fyWi!$°*£' ... Shifty ::=MS'gxx. :••••, •••••;..•,; ./,.. :'•••-;••:;: NDIA — Farmall tractor pulls richly-decorated loot which participated in impressive "Republic lay" ceremonies held in New Delhi, capital city. VENEZUELA — Intersan, S.A., International Harvester distributor, sets up attention-attracting display area at important Inter-American Road Conference in Caracas. v- S ECUADOR — Two Farmall Cub tractors plow hard adobe soil in demonstration held by A. Dillon & Cia. near Guayaquil. CEYLON —Part of fleet of International R-112 trucks of Lever Brothers. This is the largest one- make fleet of its kind now in use on the island. NTFRNATIONAL *! f-«Hr rt, f;&m BELGIAN CONGO —Hough Payloader loads locomotive tender with coal at fueling point of the B.C.K. Railroad, while railway officials look on. 11 Students at the Recife school, in the state of Pemambuco, display high in In Brazil. . . terest in International TD-24 tractor, Idurin g an outdoor class demonstration. IH SERVICE SCHO ECHANIZATION IN THE FIELDS of earth- charts and educational films were used extensively in the moving and agriculture is rapidly increasing classrooms and for field instruction. Company and dealer personnel were invited to these schools M with the twofold putpose of teaching them the subjects on in Brazil, and great changes ate taking place the curriculum and clearly showing them what the schools on the land of this vast and varied South intended to accomplish. American countty. With a steady stream of Each International Hatvester dealer sent out invitations crawler and wheel tractors, plus many other to local tractor owners and operators and mechanics to attend types of farm machinery, coming into use on Brazilian roads, his school. Attendance was limited to 40 men at each class in construction jobs and in fertile fields, it became appatent that order that maximum attention could be given to each student. training programs in the operation and maintenance of the The schools were held in hotels, clubs and in school machines were necessary. buildings such as, for example, the University of Rio de As one of the largest suppliers of earthmoving and agri Grande do Sul at Pelotas. Some formed an integral part of an culture equipment in the country, International Harvester institution's work, as in the cases of the agricultural schools Maquinas, S.A., the Brazilian IH affiliate company, put plans in Piracicabo, Sao Paulo; Levras, Minas Gerais; and Santa into motion for a series of well-organized training schools Tereza, Espirito Santo. throughout the nation. The aim of the program was to give Because of the vast distances between the populated areas substantial groups of men a basic education in the funda of Brazil, many students had long journeys to make. At the mentals of operating and caring for tractors and all types of Recife classes, students from Bahai and Belem covered dis farm machinery. tances of 1,000 miles; at the Sao Paulo school, students from The first phase of the training program consisted of hold Mato Grosso and Goias traveled 600 miles to attend. ing schools in sales districts close to the cities of Rio de By the close of 1954, 65 schools had been completed by Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre. Instruction manuals, the service department of International Harvester Maquinas, S.A. More than 1,500 men received intensive, down-to-earth instruction in operating and ptoperly maintaining the essential machinery vitally necessary for Brazil's future prosperity. * * * Four McCormick International Farmall tractors are used to demonstrate actual working conditions during session of Lins school in Sao Paulo State. 12 ;;. : • • f#fh & V to• - * Harry Alexander (wearing cap), IH in wd Turkey. . . structor, conducts class in steering clutch principles during the crawler tractor OLS AID NATIONS service training school in Iskenderun. SKENDERUN IS A BUSTLING little port of Iskenderun was selected as the school site because of its nearly 19,000 inhabitants in the south of mild winter climate and because the Turkish road office main Turkey. Formerly known as Alexandretta, tains a depot there where all new equipment and parts are / the city is situated on the Gulf of Alex received for distribution to the 11 field divisions. andretta, an inlet of the Meditettanean Sea, The Directorate of Highways erected a prefabricated near the northwestern border of Syria. The building shipped from Holland and also supplied an Interna modern Turkish city of Antakya, formerly Antioch, capital tional TD-18A tractor, which was stripped down. Standard of the old Syrian nation and one of the greatest commercial service tools were supplied by the government bureau, while centets of the ancient world, is but a short distance south. Turk Inter-Makineleri A.O. (TIMAK), Turkish IH distributor, It was at Iskendetun during the 1953-54 winter months made available special service tools and sound-film equipment. that service representatives of the Intetnational Harvester Averaging 10 days each, the seven courses of the school Export Company, at the invitation of the Turkish govern had an attendance of 111 men — from mechanics to graduate ment, conducted the largest and best-organized crawler tractor engineers. The Directorate sent 99 men (which also included service training school ever held in Turkey. 10 American equipment specialists from the U.S. Bureau of The Turkish Directorate of Highways owns almost 200 Public Roads), TIMAK had seven staff men present, and International crawlers and uses a large number of International another five came from two other IH Middle East distributors, power units to operate graders, compressors and generators. Mohammed Damirji, of Baghdad, Iraq, and Hamed M. Baki, The organization owns more International crawlers than any of Beirut, Lebanon. othet make. All repair work is handled in 11 division repair Enthusiastic interest was evident throughout all the shops and in a few of the larger district garages located courses, and government officials, distributors and students throughout the country. all agreed that the school was an outstanding success. • • + Because of the substantial numbers of International crawlers added in recent months, the Directorate realized that proper servicing and repair of the units was of the utmost importance. A request to the IH Export Company to set up a service training school received an immediate affirmative answer. Eight Turkish students pictured at blackboard study during engine class. Illustrating point at board is James Wyatt, another IH instructor. 13 il...... After 30-mile drive, newly-purchased McCor- mick International Farmall tractors are lined up alongside manor house at Ravnholt Estate. Record Danish Farm Sale . . . OLD ESTATE BUYS 18 TRACTORS LMOST ENTIRELY SURROUNDED by the waters this historic city, which was founded mote than 800 years ago. A of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, the king Between Zealand and Jutland lies Funen — the second dom of Denmatk consists of the peninsula latgest of the inhabited islands. Its chief city is Odense, whose ^L • of Jutland, which connects with Germany 96,889 people make it the fourth latgest city in the nation. along a narrow 42-mile border, and 483 South of Odense is Ravnholt, one of Denmark's greatest neighboring islands. fatm estates, which traces its history back nearly 600 years. One hundred of the islands are inhabited, but less than This entetprise of 7,305 acres was founded during the reign a dozen are areas of real importance. The largest of these of Valdemar Atterdag (1340-1375), who united the kingdom — islands is Zealand, where the capital, Cppenhagen, is situated. Europe's oldest — and scored a victoty over the powerful Almost one-fifth of the total population of Denmark lives in Hanseatic League. He also warred against Sweden, Mecklen burg and Holstein in a period when Northern Europe was in a constant turmoil of battles and political intrigue. For the last 200 years, Ravnholt has been the property of the Juul family. The present owner, Ch. Sehestedt Juul, has been operating the estate since 1948. Barley, oats, wheat, rye, sugar beets, feed crops and specialized plants and seeds for industrial use are grown at Ravnholt. The estate owns 400 wU milk cows, as well as 400 heifers and steers. There are also 70 sows, and 600 pigs are fattened and sold each year. The working force totals 87 petsons. In recent years, both the :x;X Mr. Ch. Sehestedt Juul, Ravnholt owner (left), presents check to Assistant Manager P. E.Johnson of IH Danish affiliate company 14 Tractors are driven through Odense to Ravnholt, follow 1 ing exhibition at annual fair. estate's buildings' and the farm machinery have been thor Company. They thoroughly instructed Ravnholt's tractot oughly modernized. operators in the approved IH methods of tractor operation During the late summer of 1954, Mr. Juul decided to and maintenance. replace all of Ravnholt's 18 farm ttactots. Competition for The tractors then were divided among the three manors the older of 18 new tractors — the largest transaction of its of the estate, and within an hour were driving McCormick type to date in the country — was unusually spirited. International bindets in the field during the grass seed harvest. Following extended negotiations, the entire order was The three manors of Ravnholt are named Hellerup, Lykkes- given to the A/S International Hatvester Company, IH's holm and Ravnholt, totaling 3,313 acres. Wooded land and a Danish affiliate company with headquarters at Copenhagen. number of smaller farms bring the total acreage to 7,305. Mt. Juul contracted to buy 15 Fatmall Supet BMD tractors — In addition to the 18 tractors, 10 horses also provide motive products of the International Harvester Company of Great power. The horses are used mostly in the woods, where the Britain, Ltd. — and three Farmall DGD-4 tractors manu tractors also work in the winter. factured by IH's German affiliate company, International As an interesting comparison, Ravnholt estate in 1935 Harvester m.b.H. employed 90 horses and two tractors for essentially the same * * * duties performed in 1954. BEFORE BEING DELIVERED to Ravnholt, the 18 machines Denmark is making commendable headway in the field of were displayed at the stand of I/S E. Bondo & Company, mechanized agriculture. Before World War II, there were only local International Harvester dealer, during the annual agri 4,000 tractots in the country. Today, there are more than 20,000. cultural fair at Odense, where their exhibition tesulted in much Progressive organizations such as Ravnholt, I/S E. Bondo favorable comment from the fairgoers. & Company and A/S International Harvester Company are At the close of the exhibition, the tractors were driven, playing important parts in the continuing advancement of with police escort, through Odense and then to Ravnholt, agriculture — one of the economic mainstays of a nation of 30 miles distant. Present to receive the tractors were Mr. Juul; over 4,303,000 people where 80 per cent of the land is under his farm manager, G. Bladel, and the latter's three assistants, cultivation. * • • Messrs. Madsen, Bech and Hansen. Also on hand to welcome the new additions to the estate's line of mechanized equipment were service specialists from A/S International Hatvester Company and I/S E. Bondo & INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER HORIZONS Published by INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER EXPORT COMPANY Service Manager H. Henning of IH Danish firm 180 NORTH MICHIGAN AVE., CHICAGO 1, ILL., U.S.A. Iinstruct s group of Ravnholt tractor operators. GEORGE SELGRAT, Editor .v-;r *:;''.: /W PICTURE ON FRONT COVER High in the Australian Alps, *•» a tremendous construction project, The Snowy Moun tains Scheme, is creating one of the world's most ambitious irrigation and hydro-electric development programs. Spread over a period of 25 years, the Scheme's various projects will be located in a 5,500-square mile area. One of the major firms supplying essential equipment to the Scheme is the International Harvester Company of Australia, 15 Pty. Ltd. Pictured on the cover is an International TD-24 crawler tractor cutting a road near the Guthega Dam. Scheme story begins on Page 3. TD-24 with bullgrader levels curve on the Barranquitas-Naranjito thoroughfare. PUERTO RICO RUILDS MOUNTAIN ROAD OUGHLY RECTANGULAR IN SHAPE — 100 feet above sea level. The road will be instrumental in the -_—^ miles long and 35 miles wide — Puerto movement of a constant supply of fresh farm produce needed m M Rico is the easternmost island of the West by the growing population of the greater San Juan area. m 1 Indies group known as the Greater Antilles. When the new link is opened to traffic, it will be possible This free commonwealth associated with the to avoid a treacherous 18-mile section of the Bayamon-Bar- United" States was discovered by Christopher ranquitas road, which up to now has been the only road Columbus on November 19, 1493, during the Genoese mari connection between Batranquitas and Naranjito. ner's second westward voyage. The present thoroughfare is extremely narrow and winding, Possessing an extremely fertile soil, Puerto Rico's 3,435 frequently closed by landslides and has represented hazardous square miles are extensively cultivated. Chief crops are sugar, transportation conditions for years to farmers, truckers and tobacco, coffee, coconuts, fruits and vegetables. With more passenger traffic. The new route, it is estimated, will save than 643 inhabitants to the square mile, the island is one of the $600,000 annually in losses now incurred due to fruit and most-densely populated agrarian areas in the world. vegetable bruising and spoilage, and more than $50,000 yearly Puerto Rico long has been called "an isle of hills," com in maintenance and in tires, fuel and vehicle depreciation. posed as it is of scattered peaks and summits, some reaching International Harvester industrial power is playing an four thousand feet. These rise out of a land mass cut by important patt in the building of the road. One contractor, lateral ridges and gorges. Antonion Carro Rivera, is using 5 International TD-24 crawler Toiling in the central east-west mountain range today are tractots, a TD-9 with a Drott Skid Shovel, a four-wheel groups of workmen building an all-weather road connecting scraper and five International-powered rollers and crushers. the picturesque towns of Barranquitas and Naranjito, 14 miles Another contractor, Consolidated Construction Company, apart. Construction on the first section of the road began is working with three TD-24's, two fout-wheel scrapers and in August 1952, and the entire project is expected to be four International-powered graders and rollers. finished in September 1955. Puerto Rico has been engaged in large-scale highway con Completion of the route will open to wide-scale garden struction since 1940, and the Barranquitas-Naranjito road is crop production a large plateau area more than two thousand one of the Commonwealth's most important projects. * * * <>Xr,.r:-:xx.: ,:.:;:., /:/e;:.ftv: Four - wheeled rubber - tired / scraper, linked with TD-24, picks up load in plateau area. 16 MEH^F .--. In many parts of Mexico, horses and donkeys still separate grain from chaff. «E . -iij: '•:. •'•:' ^XXXXX Vigorous Agricultural Expansion . .. MEXICO INAUGURATES NEW ERA ECHANIZED FARMING has been long in com- things, involved the redistribution of large tracts of land. ing to Mexico. Although a school fot instruct While the measures resulted in an over-all betterment of ing young Mexicans in advanced farming the general ills of agriculture, there still remained many basic methods was established in 1854, it was not problems. It is these that are being overcome now as Mexican M until 1890, when many enterprising land agriculture is entering an era of some of its most important owners turned to modern techniques, that changes. mechanization began to displace primitive agricultural practices Extraordinary efforts are being made by the government to an appreciable extent. of President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines to bring wasteland into Even today, 65 years later, the tractor and the thresher production through irrigation, improved methods of cultiva still have much territoty to conquer. Mexico is called a tion and the introduction of new crops adapted to Mexico's country of dramatic contrasts because in many areas, side soils and climates. The irrigation projects already have brought by side, one can see crops planted and harvested by the into ptoductivity large areas both in the north and in the latest agricultural machinery and by the simple methods used south that previously were considered almost useless because hundreds of years ago. of the uneven distribution of rainfall over much of the country. It is not uncommon in the Mexico of the mid-20th Century One of the units in the irrigation system is the President to see farmers toiling with wooden plows similar to those Aleman Dam of the Papaloapan project, the most ambitious employed before the advent of the steel plow in 1837. engineering work of the administration. Here, at Ixtapontongo, In 1917, with the adoption of the Constitution, Mexican in northeastern Oaxaca, the government is building the largest agriculture underwent a series of reforms which, among other dam in Latin America, and developing a vast wilderness area. Straddling a mountain gorge, the dam will hold in check a torrent of water which in times past has wrought great Fast-Hitch demonstration with Farmall Super destruction. The rainfall in the mountains of this vicinity is as C tractor draws throng at Gutierrez Zamora. > " • - •%-::::'.- §jp«i TV * 17 •xtl . :. ;: : MEXICO . "::.:' X :: . . . Mi-.iiism Sheet metal department in new motor truck assembly building at IH's Saltillo Works. The cab line can be seen at left. to agriculture and industry. Of an estimated $16 million made available by this action, two-thirds of the sum has been set high as 118 inches a year, and too many times has transformed aside fot incteased production of corn, wheat and beans. a somnolent river into a raging flood. Furthermore, the government is spending $17 million to The reservoir back of the dam will be greater than the enable the sugar industry to attain a goal of one million Shasta Dam in California, U.S.A., and will provide water for metric tons in 1955. Some 75,000 new acres are being opened the irrigation of 400,000 acres. More than 56,000 kilowatts for sugar cane production, $1 million has been set aside for of hydro-electric power will be generated at the site. Fout new mechanized equipment, $3 million fot new iifigation other dams are part of the same plan. Their completion will wotks and $10 million for the construction of new mills or the mean more water and electrical power for two million acres imptovement of existing mills. and many industrial plants. By 1963, the population of the * * * area, now 3,000, is expected to reach 50,000, as farmers and THE NEED for greatet employment of up-to-date fanning industrial workers flock into the water- and power-rich region. procedures in Mexico is shown by recent statistics: 62 per International crawler tractors, supplied by International cent of the total population of more than 26 million persons Harvester Company of Mexico, S.A. de C.V., are furnishing is engaged in farming activities, yet this mass of agricultural much of the heavy industrial power at the site of the five dams. wotkers produces only 16 per cent of the national income. About 2,500,000 acres now are irrigated — an investment Notwithstanding the manpower utilized in agriculture, in excess of $200 million. The Ptesident Aleman Dam to date Mexico does not ptoduce enough basic foodstuffs to feed its has cost $40 million, and other additional huge expenditures people. Six per cent of all food must be imported, as against will be necessary for its completion. fout per cent in prewat years. Eight per cent of Mexico's Of the 37,500,000 acres now available for agricultural total imports constitute food shipments. production, 3,750,000 acres represent new land opened up Aiding the Mexican government in its sttenuous activities since 1947. Further evidence of the determined efforts of the in behalf of agriculture is Intetnational Hatvestet's Mexican government to make the country more self-sufficient in the affiliate company, which was fotmed in December 1934. IH, face of a rapid population growth is the fact that the total however, has been on the Mexican scene since 1879, when the cultivated land has increased from 17,500,000 acres in 1939 to first McCormick reapers appeared in the countty's grain fields. more than 25,000,000 acres in 1955. Acting as the result of a special government invitation, Mexico's principal crops are corn, fruits, sugar, wheat, International Harvester began building a modern factoty — beans, cotton and rice, in that order. The government recently the Saltillo Works, near Monterrey — shortly after World gave permission to banks to use excess deposits for credits War II. eft: Two and one-half million acres now are irrigated and more watered land will become available. View by Cia. Mexicana Aerofota shows typical dam site. zzxt;m ^ Be/ow: Power area at the huge President Aleman Dam. '>.v 18 cCormick International self- propelled harvester - thresher in action in mountain valley. :.,sa. wm V .-. This operation was officially inaugurated on July 6, 1947, for the production of tractot and animal-dtawn fatm imple ments, and fot the assembly of motot trucks that would aid the transpottation of farm products to distribution points. The effofts made by International Hatvestet to provide Mexico with the necessary machines at a reasonable price, plus the advantages of making available complete pafts and competent mechanical service in all parts of the nation through a netwotk of authorized distributors, have yielded excellent results. A growing demand for these products resulted recently in an expansion project fot Saltillo, including a new foundty and motor truck assembly building, plus other increased pro duction facilities. This additional activity will be a valuable adjunct to Mexico's manufacturing entetprises and of great benefit to the Latin-American world. As Mexico takes well-directed measures to imptove its agricultural and industrial economy and raise the living stand ards of its people, the Intetnational Harvestet Company of fc£S Mexico, S.A. de C.V., is an increasingly invaluable ally in all IH industrial power in Mexico is widely used in matters relating to fatm machinety, transpottation and indus essential tasks, such as this International TD-14A trial power. • • • tractor at work in a Santa Fe sand mine. International Harvester's Mexican affiliate com pany stages one of its many nation-wide Fast- Hitch exhibitions with popular Farmall tractors. 19 For Better Living . . . [NTERNATIONAL HARVESTER REFRIGERATION Attractive formica top contributes not only color but added work space to new International Harvester chest freezer. IH's newest 12-cubic footer — the BIG refrigerator combining spaciousness, eye-catching beauty in little floor space. Functional design is more than utilitarian in purpose. It is the result of attistic creariveness, sound engineering and recognition of practical requirements. IH has achieved this tate combi nation in the truly functional design of its 1955 tefrigeration line. Evety model expresses the ultimate in the designer's aim — clean-line beaury, appealing color, time- and money-sav ing features. There is compact spaciousness in six new refrigerators, from 7.5 to 12-cubic feet, and six new freezers in two upright cabinets and four chest models. Six beautiful air condi- tionets, one for every room size, and the ever- practical dehumidifier complete a line truly functionally designed for the best of living. It's always cool and comfortable with a no-draft "All-Seasons" IH air conditioner. RINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA