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Farm Tractors in Western Canada.

18th September 1928
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A SURVEY of the sales of farm t. tractors in the prairie provinces of Western Canada, as made by a Winnipeg farm journal, indicates that those in 1927 were 54 per cent, greater than those in 1926-10,026 and 6,513 machines having been disposed of in the two years respectively. According to size, sales were greatest in the class ranging from over 12 h.p. to 25 h.p. up to and including 16 h.p. to 82 h.p., 5,442 machines in this group

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being sold in 1927. Sales of machines over 22 h.p. to 40 h.p. were relatively small, amounting to 173 in 1927 and 112 in 1926.

Sales of all sizes of tractor were larger in Saskatchewan, which area absorbed 5,727 machines last year. Alberta took 2,885, whilst Manitoba purchased 1,414 tractors, the latter being the only province of the three recording purchases which were less than in 1926. The number of tractors in

the prairie provinces in the 1926 census was egtimated at 50,136, of which 26,674 were in Saskatchewan, 12,151 in Manitoba, and 11,311 in Alberta.

Implement dealers at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, report that tractor sales during the first three months of the present year amounted to 1,002 machines, as compared with 403 placed into service during the corresponding period of 1927.

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Locations: Winnipeg, Saskatoon

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