Show farm production advancing with technology enough agricultural products to support himself and more than 13 others was the record chalked up by each farmer and farm worker in wartime 1913 1945 19 13 in 1920 one farmer supported only 10 counting himself and in 1620 only a little more than 4 figures are cited by mark thackeray chairman of the morgan county agricultural conservation committee to indicate what tech technology n olo gy applied science is doing for agriculture he points point out that in 1945 every man hour of work meant 44 per cent more gross production than in 1017 1917 21 half of these savings in hours per unit of product resulted from mechanization other developments mainly increases in yields of crops and livestock were responsible for the other half farm horses and mules have been rapidly replaced by tractors trucks and automobiles during the last third of a century A modern tractor and its equipment now save SIO S IO ho hours rs of man labor compared with the time required to do the job with the animal power and equipment quip ment used a generation ago more mechanization has made possible more timely operations and this has helped increase increase farm production especially when adverse weather delayed the preparation of land and planting the increase in food supplies for feeding an increasing population from r om 1920 to 1942 came about in this way SO 30 per cent came from released by the decline in borses horses and julest buies 70 0 per cent from increased crop add livestock V yields ields and from decreased exports |