| Before the tractor, there was the mule or horse, and before that there was just the farmer and his plow. This page features both manual and tractor-driven implements for breaking ground and preparing the fields.
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| In the early 1940’s, John Klun started farming in Samsula, and since he didn’t own a tractor his neighbor Frank Luznar Jr. would use his tractor to make 7-foot beds. Then John would take it from there. He would use a mule with a plow to clear the ditches of weeds. John would deliver the produce to DeLand where he had contacts from the time he lived there. He would divide some of the sales with John Luznar who also hauled vegetables and would help make up the difference when John was short on vegetables for an order. He built a pump house that kept a pump engine which pumped into a concrete vat. The vat was used to wash the vegetables (there was a large plug at the bottom which was pulled out to empty the vat). He had made a concrete-lined small ditch the vat poured into, and the water would run into the “watering ditches”. (Courtesy Carol Jontes Strack. For more about the Klun family in Samsula, see the People & Places exhibit.) | 
John Klun on his Samsula farm, |
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An automated drill seeder has improved farming for Bill Tomazin and his sons. |
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