Enjoying a production run that spread out over 14 years, over 290,000 of these machines were produced. Around 1940, the cost of the Farmall M was around $1,100. The cost of the Farmall MD was around $1,700. Many of the Farmall M tractors are still in use today, and parts are readily available. As far as collectability, these are the least popular of the letter series, most likely due to their large size.
The reason for rules in war is simple: people value life. The rules of war are mostly about giving people a way to lose without dying. Rules, such as the use of a white flag, give people a way to surrender. Bans on chemical and biological weapons prevent indiscriminate and uncontrollable killing. And rules protect POWs.
Reason indeed concurs with experience in showing that all the attention which the legislator pays to the business of war, and all other rules which he lays down, should have for their object rest and peace; since most of those states (which we usually see) are preserved by war; but, after they have acquired a supreme power over those around them, ...