Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-01 | Page 22 | Tractor Mean More Food

TRACTORS e FARMERS OF DT UTAH AH HELP WIN THE WA WAR R The 7 71 1 Tractors Tractor T i s a Gun Cl to Shoot C L the i L I Hunt 11 L By D. D F. F Houston e Y f Secretary of U. U S. S nt of Agri Agriculture cut re You Yon arc are asked to undertake another offensive to lo ti go go l cr o cr the r t top this fall for fora a great grent harvest in 1919 s You have e occupied and do occupy the first line trenches of ot the I f food army You l have c n e to fight a difficulties too I am not u unmindful mindful r of these In the Department 1 of Agriculture ave c e consider them dail daily 1 7 and daily dailye we e wee gi c e our best off efforts oils to help you meet them You ii know o of the difficulties in ill sour Jour community but buL I know of them in inmany inmany ao many communities of many states and so seriously do the they impress me Inc that I might almost consider them insurmountable had bad not American Ameri Amen can farmers last year and again this year revealed the true American fighting spirit spurn and ability to meet sirI serious situations They will not let lct the war pail fail because of deficient t food production in 1919 1910 It has been heen z l Let us sow liberally for a n big bin harvest cst called the Liberty Wheat Harvest AVe Ye all hope it will be But let us undertake tho the task with the determination that we c will vill sweat i our blood for man many more if need be before we v yield one measure of our freedom to lo a Prussian domination Let us fight in in the furrows 1 L I I By E. E G. G Peterson r I President of the Utah Agricultural College Farm tractors have been found to lo be not only l but economical for in the State of Utah use Special attention is called cr to the fact that at the present time the tractor 13 is is corning coining more and on 0 more into favor or on a account o of the tact fact that with this method of forming farming one olle man roan can call accomplish far for more work than he lie could with a 0 team of horses In Iii these da days s 's of scarce farm labor this means a great t deal dealto deal to the tile former farmer The sO saving sOng ng g which may be bc accomplished o through a tractor varies varies said Professor Peterson with the type of tractor the character of the land t to o be worked the thc kind of soil and the man who is doing the s. s work Th Tins This last feature is ib taken take being g n tare care of to some extent at the Agricultural college through the w winter course in Farm 1 Mechanics I C- C where tractor work is a 0 special feature feat inc Th lh The fact that the average P farmer and his sons are growing crowing o to be accustomed to han handling lino a automobiles auto auto- y s mobiles an and to their care caie also is of or importance Prof L. L n R. R Humphries I r p. p t r V is in charge of this course and will ill be glad to furnish tractor information I 2 mation to farmers if cn gi the aeta details l nee needed ed as to whether the c farm farmon i Y w ftH on which the true machine to be used is hill hilly or level le its size and the character character char char- acter of the soil as well tech as the kind of work for which it is to be e used