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Show ENGINES ON SMALL FARMS Twenty-Horse Power Engine at Work. The use of the most "modern math-cds" math-cds" ip farming in Kansas is by no '-"rneans restricted to the huge ranches. In nearly every locality in the state there are farmers who are using traction trac-tion engines, with either steam or gasoline for power, to plow and harrow. har-row. Near Muscotah, Kan., there is a ranch comprising 6S0 acres, on which the plowing and harrowing is being done with a 20-horse power gasoline engine. This hauls four 14-inch gang plows and a two-horse harrow the equivalent of saying that the engine does the work of 20 horses. The distance dis-tance traversed and it's over "tough" soil, too is from two to two and one-half one-half miles a day. One harrow is placed off to the side so that the result re-sult is a double harrowing of the ground without making a second trip. There were many doubters of the advisability of investing in an engine for a tract of 680 acres. It was considered con-sidered too small an area to warrant the initial expense for the machine. The owners of the ranch, however, say that the engine soon will save its own cost. Thus far in the test it has proved entirely satisfactory. |