| description: | A 1912 Model Reeves Cross Compound 40-140 Horsepower Steam Engine Used To Sow Wheat With Three One-Way Disk Seeders On The George Routledge Farm At Delisle, Sk. Routledge'S 1937 Crop Had Been A Total Failure Due To Drought. When It Came Time To Seed The 1938 Crop, He Did Not Have Sufficient Funds To Buy Fuel And Oil For Any Of His Mccormick-Deering 22-36 Tractors. Rather Than Not Seed, He Used The Reeves Steam Engine Which Had Been In Storage For 12 Years. Fuel Was Supplied By Straw From The 1936 Wheat Crop And Water From Spring Run-Off. The University Of Saskatachewan'S Agricultural Engineering Department Designed The Hitch |