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Banked record, Farms & Crops lk-frm-institutions; printed census agriculture volumes as settler, unreached November 2026
Mechanisation prints in the banked file at its endpoints only — horses, 724 in 2017 and 944 on 84 farms in 2022, a count that rises because the category changed around it — and the checklist asks for the machine's arrival counted at dated points; the points stand unextracted, and the gap is named. The printed Census of Agriculture volumes for 1920, 1940 and 1959 carry tractor counts at county strength — the three censuses that between them span the horse's whole displacement — and no St. Joseph County tractor row from any of the three was extracted. What the record holds instead is institutional and human: an agricultural society reorganised on 15 March 1858, a Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company organised 25 August 1877, a Horticultural Society of 9 November 1892, and the county-agent pair the banked file leaves unresolved in its own conflict. None of that counts a tractor. The settler is named and stands current: the printed census agriculture volumes for 1920, 1940 and 1959, read for this county's tractor rows entire. Until they are read, the township's mechanisation prints as it honestly stands — horse endpoints in the modern census, and the machine age uncounted between them.