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ITEMS 4–5 · THE CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE NAMED AS SETTLER; NO COUNT INVENTED
The checklist wants the local arrival dated and the county's mechanization counted across the century — tractors on farms at each census, horsepower rising against farm numbers falling — and the run reports both halves at exactly the strength the record gives. The arrival: the township's first tractor — the farm, the make, the year — stands in no county history or canvass reached, and the implement advertisements and farm columns of the Independent's 1915–30 file, where the arrival would have been marketed and noted, are named in the run note as the settler (with the Census of Agriculture's county series behind it); GAP-W6-16, the farms file's own dating gap for the implement trade's course, stands unclosed by this run and is printed here at its full width rather than papered over. The county curve: the quinquennial Census of Agriculture has counted tractors on farms since 1920, and St. Joseph County's series — the tractor count at each census, the average horsepower's rise, the farms' fall from their mid-century peak — stands in those published county tables as a named, unextracted record: this text seat did not open the series, and it prints no county tractor count rather than a borrowed or estimated one. Both halves close MIXED: the tests framed, the instruments named, the settler precise — and a section that prints its owed extractions as owed, rather than dressing estimates as counts, is the standard this section's register article set for every city.
Principal sources: Farms & Agriculture (the count tail, 2017–2022; GAP-W6-16); the Census of Agriculture county series (1920–2022) named as settler; the Independent's 1915–30 file named for the arrival.