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The named gaps
The tractor arrived on Liberty Township's farms as a purchase, and its counting was done at county scale.Joseph County series; the arrival count — the county's first tractor census figure — and the two-part mechanisation curve (the rise to the mid-century peak, farms falling and horsepower rising, to the latest census) therefore stand as named gaps, their settler the U.S. Census of Agriculture's St. Joseph County tables, 1925 to the latest census, from which the township's curve can be honestly framed at county strength. No "first tractor in the township" is crowned here, because no record reached crowns one; the implement record in the tractor age belongs with the frame: the wagon works' own line ended with the horse, and what the town's works made for tractors to pull — in the extrusion era, nothing agricultural was found — returns a negative in the sources reached.