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Show H Answer by Prof. Hogenson, A. C. U. H ,A 2 or 3 II. P. gasoline engine is H onfeof the greatest farm conveniens H ccS, There are so many little chores H and other jobs of work on the farm H that ordinarily take a great doal of H time and muscle and as a conseqence H bejp to make farm life a drudgery, H These can be easily and more cheap- Hj ly, done with a small gasoline engine, H ' Sucjh jqbf ip pumping waterfR H iumal re drink, sawing" Wood, .ahfl- -iyjfjtafii, rfinntffg the fannning mill, fife jrrindstone, the -meat griridcqhop-ping griridcqhop-ping machine and grinding mill,, churning, etc., can all be dbne. It is best to have a room specially fitted up so that the machine to be Operated can stand, in a saw 'and be run from one iron shaft fastened near the ceiling. A nunibcr of bolt wheels are- fastened to this shaft and the belt changed fr$fbo.nc to another according accord-ing to the particular machine it is desired to opcraTeL Hiesc engines can be run for from 40 cents to $t per day. A suitable engine may be purchased for from $125 160. When I see the great continences which they bring, the time and labor saved, I conclude that every average sized farm Ought to have, and in" time -n will have a gasoline engine. With regard! to the Gasoline Trtact-ion Trtact-ion engine Prof. W. M. Jardinc 4ays: "While in Montana I had an opportunity oppor-tunity to observe for the firsltimc a gasoline traction engine in 'opera -tion. A 22-horsepowcr outfit .was at work plowing up sod land on the open op-en prairie. I spent one day following this engine in order to collect reliable data on its performance. From the information obtained at this time, together to-gether with that previously socurcd from reliable men who have had cx-pcncncc cx-pcncncc with gasoline engines in plowing, I am convinced that its success suc-cess is practically assured. The gasoline gas-oline engine is quite simple in its mechanism me-chanism and is easily handled, only two men being required to operate both engine and plows. "This outfit hadi been running for ten days and had averaged during that time n little more than 25 acres a day on heavy sod, plowing to a dapth of 4 inches and turning it over in good shape, lhc cost including labor, la-bor, was about 80 cents an acre. The two young men operating the engine were inexperienced hands, and yet everything seemed to ibe moving smoothly. They informed mc that they had thus far met with no serious delays on account of breakages. The contract priae for breaking sodJ land in Montana varies from $4 to $5 per acre. It would require 25 horses and 5 men, at a cost of not less than $3-50 to $4.50 per acre, to do the same amount of work per day that these two young men were doing With heir- anginc . , . .&" " ' "Tlw SAfcQlhiiC ansiiiU,MHBIItolU$n - - - 1 - ' 1 for plowing and other farming operations opera-tions is entirely feasible where farming farm-ing is done on a large scale, but it would not be practicable for the small farmer to own and operate an outfit. However, a number of small farmers could join together in the purchase of an engine without involving themselves them-selves as heavily as by purchasing the horses necessary to do the same itni-ifht of' wtrk. This method is foN lowed in the west in buying threshing thresh-ing outfits and is found thoroughly I'racticable. "If it is possible to produce crops at a cost of $2 to $4 less per ocrc by the use of gasoline engines on our dry farms this method shouldl be adopted. The saving would be remarkable, re-markable, especially where the average aver-age ykld of wheat per acrc probably does not exceed 15 (bushels. Some twenty of these plowing outfits have been placed in Montana this year. In my judgment the gasoline plowing outfit is here to stay and will aid materially ma-terially in the cheap production of farm crops on our dry lands." |