September 4, 2009

In 1925, Jacob Hartz planted the state’s first soybean crop in Arkansas County. Shortly afterward, he and Alfred Thorell formed the Hartz-Thorell Supply Company. By 1927, they had built the state’s first seed cleaner. Shown here is a tractor from the Hartz-Thorell Supply Company in a parade in the 1930s.

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