Show f IDLE CITY MEN MAY FORM TRACTOR I I UNITS IN U. U S. S FARM FOOD ARMY f V P.-V Ui 7 rR r- r I I t TT iy 4 t I R J s S S rn g- g vt-r vt vf i V v 1 BEBB gS y- y yf f m ir 4 4 V 4 Cr I Special Dispatch CHICAGO March farch 9 That That this Is going going go go- ing to bo he a dull season Benson for tor the building trades except in cities where war plant must be housed Is admitted In building trad trades s headquarters Less construction operations arc to be undertaken this tills year ear than In recent years ears throwing out of or their regular employment em em- many carpenters bricklayers cement workers and others These men accustomed to working several months each year ear out of oC doors arc not anxious to seek indoor employment employment employ employ- I ment during their enforced Idleness amias and ami andas as ns It Is pointed out b by a a. manufacturer factories tb do not want to break them In hi because use the they will vIIi leave len as soon as building starts again Most of the these workmen came camo from 1 farms arms or sma small country countr towns They know i something about farming arming and not nota a few ew of or them have back to the he soil sod ambitions ambitions ambi- ambi I lions the they hope to realize on when th they have saved enough mone money to bu buy a farm I Now Nov it Is proposed to make It J possible for or them to lo do farm work worl The rhe land needs them I Hired farm arm labor has become almost extinct said fd B. B W. W Snow noted crop ClOP expert and who makes it his business to I investigate farm conditions all un the year II around Farm work is woefully hack back ward Wages ages have a advanced to figures I unheard of In farming communities without producing an any additional labor BUPP supply The farmer armer nce needs s help I development of the tractor and I 4 1 I I I I k J J. J H. H WIEST This new Idea In tractors will end farm labor shortage according to the Inventor of the American tractor J. J H. H Wiest whose pl ture Is Inset The tractor shown above Is so constructed that a binder mower or cultivator may mOlY be at attached attached at at- by one man It pulls a four bot tom toni plow and can Cot be converted Into a wagon Other tractors pull these Implements Implements Impie- Impie ments and In 11 cultivating or harvesting require an additional 11 man for each Im im- im claims that one man with his tractor can do the work now done by four men and from ten to twelve horses the more iene general l u use c of m mechanical power po on farms opens a new opportunity It ity for or l Idle le city men In every community ty there are rc farmers who will not have enough labor to work all alt their lands These hundreds of thousands o of Idle fields may bo worked b by city men out of work because use of oC the lu lull In Sn building operations It Is suggested that a group of oC these men get g-et to together and buy a tractor and TIMES CHANGE With the sickle a man could harvest har hal vest one one half half acre a day With the scythe a m man could liar liar- vest one acre aero a day With the cradle a man mn could harvest har vest two and one one half half acres a day With the first reaper 1331 1831 a man could harvest six acres a day With the modern binder a man can harvest twenty acres a n day With the modern tractor and two binders one man can harvest fort forty acres a d day I I Ia a few other farm implements on the tho co cooperative co- co S co-S operative plan llan Ian They can cnn lease i idle le fields fJeld livin living in deserted farm buildings or In tents on the community plan working their fields and growing crops Most farmers would obligate Ate themselves themselves them them- selves sel to hu buy the tue entire product grown rown on oil their farms and the rental for theland tho the tholand tholand land would come COllie out of ot them The farmers could furnish the seed and anel fertilizer fertilizer fer fer- O on the same sanie credit basis Such tractor units can be bc organized and financed b by Individuals or corporations corporations corpora corpora- lions b by societies clubs or nn any on ono one I. I wanting to do a real patriotic work The Investment would be small malJ A A. small unit could be ho financed with 1500 l 00 If the thc farmers farmer would a agree ree to furnish land seed and amid fertilizer on a cre credit lt basis bais to toLe tobe tobe be Le paid out of the thc crop Two men with witha a tractor one team Learn of horses and aull a few agricultural Implements can make malce a big profit if tile the they are arc ahl able to get et 1 Idle fields close together Lar Larger cr units could handIe handle handle han han- dle dIe more fields and ancl farther IOl anart |