Show PENNSYLVANIA IS t SPENDING MONEY I TO HELP FARMER k INCREASE CROPS State Defense Committee Appropriates Sum to Farms in East HARRISBURG Pa PaIa May Ia 18 Secre Secre Secretary i tar tary of ot Agriculture Charles E. E Patton has completed arrangements to place forty fort tOlt or more farm tractors at th the disposal dis of the Pennsylvania anla farmers f 1 No o department funds are available n Je Jetor for tor the purchase of or tractors but Secretary Sec Sec- SecretAry Secretary Sec Sec- Patton had little trouble in Sn securing se Sf securing se- se I curing the pled pledge e of cooperation from the committee on public safety and de defense defense de- de which Is headed by Governor Go Brumbaugh and Is composed of or three other state officials This commission has lias had at Its disposal for war pur- pur oses and a rl liberal amount amounts amounts' ns s s' s to be allowed for tractor purposes Ii Negotiations A. A a are f fn not now th on on with hh tractor e ct OI of anUl ts Ul or e ety p ju orty or ty tractors Eight or ten different Snakes apes ales of or tractors will be purchased d l rid these will be apportioned apportion cd to differ differ- l t pt sections of the state REVS CREWS ARE WANTED The next task will be to secure eighty r r more competent tractor operators for each ma machine will be equipped with lights I S and crew and kept going Mobile Auto hours b rs a day lay according to Auto 3 mobile Industries When the tractors ar are purchased and ni the r operators secured one machine of flach make malic sel selected cl d will be sent to the ther r state tate Agricultural college and the 01 op- op will be sent there for a 1 week or lays days for instructions from factory facton representatives and en engineers Eighty Eight I first first class clas operators and mechanics arc are l expected to come conic forth from Crom that at school Efforts will be made to have hao or of farmers in one county ar- ar to use the tractors and a a. regular t c schedule of or work wort will be made made- up In each territory One farmer will conti contract contraeL con con- tract ti cl for tort forty acres another for fin fifty and enough will be signed to contracts 1 io tb make it worth while to establish the tractors I In that section of or the country countr 1 MAKE TOUR j When all the assignments are made f up up a a regular tour will be outlined enough machines will be assigned to t the c work ork and it will be tackled b by cx- cx exp p men The farmer furnishes t tHc Ufe labor S. S Tho The farmer will sign a contract ir ting how man many acres s he desires to plowed and agreeing to pay the harges Charges which will Nill be fixed Led for tor plow plow- I ng and fitting work The basis for forI I hese charges cs will be bo fixed by the acre I hey will include the cost of fuel u l oper- oper tor and oil aU the idea of ot the state being furnish the tractor at the very low low- to the farmer with the tho least ix ft Continued on rage page 4 c PENNSYLVANIA IS Continued from page pago 3 J I amount mount of ot trouble and care on his part The tractor will car carry Its Us own plows but any other machinery such as harlOWS har- har mows lOWS or discs will have to be supplied by the farmer It Is likely that the charge for plowing will be between 2 2 nod arid 3 3 and acre and the charge for fitting fitting fit fit- ting the land about SO cents or 1 and nna acre HELPING THE FARMER Xo No o effort has been spared to Impress the farmer that he must bear a large share of or the burden of ot winning the tIle war warS S for America Speakers in theatres writers In magazines and orators In pulpits ha have exhorted the farmer to toS S plow plant and produce He lIe has been een urged to raise ralso another row of beans another field of or potatoes double his wheat acreage and to cultivate every available foot of ot land But not once has the farmer been of offered or- or material al aid The Tho government has hns been busy with tho the war on other side and has not had time for tor any anything thins thins- but great military Tho The business of or fighting has priority over everything else The Time farmer tanner has hag been given tho the task tasko o of or helping to win the tho war var and amId then he lie has been left to shift for tor himself Confronted Confronted Con- Con fronted with a multitude of ot problems s I he faces aces a task of or no mean proper proper- He Is willing to reme remedy y the shortage of labor and by motorIzing motorizing motorizing mo mo- his Ills farm He wants to bu buy a tractor because he knows a tractor will do the work of ot several teams and men But the production of ot tractors Is hindered by the shortage o of or materials Government orders which precede all others have made It almost Impossible for the manufacturers of tractors to obtain steel in sufficient quantities FARM LABOR AND TRACTOR The shortage of or farm labor will be one of or the most serious problems of ot the tile war In this country during tho the next year Already Alread the farmer has begun to cl clamor mor for con conscription to insure a sufficient sufficient suf- suf and stable f. f farm tm supply |