Show Farming By Power ower Urged Cut Living Costs With the Tractor Says i Smith l With spring comes cameos the call of the the soil lIOn to those who have hn their ther living to tomake tomake tomako make mako from tho the earth earth and and In those days 5 of notoriously high h costs even cn tho the man who docs does not have havo to dig his hs living from Cram the tho soil son Is now now giving serious thought to the proposition of at wooing a n small section of Old Mother Iother Earth somewhere Most thinking thinking- people are aro beginning to realize that the thc farms and gardens really are arc tho backbone of or tho lute nation A re recent statement of ot Herbert Herbort Hoover was to the tho effect th t this great nation nation na na- tion will be importing food In a H. few v years ear unless food production is speeded up And ho follows this startling statement up by asserting that power farming Is tho only solution to tho the speeding up question There Thero are aro undoubtedly hundreds hundred or perhaps thousands of or men In the vi vicinity vicinity vicinity vi- vi of ot Salt Lake Lako who have ha at ti times es thought they would try to got get a n little truck patch somewhere near tho the city where they could put In their morning and evening hours in growing things These logged city folks folka arc are largely largel waiting the opportunity to put their embryonic plans into practice Tho They have havo been hesitating for Cor one thing because of ot the hesitancy about trying to buy and care for a a. horse This hesitancy is only natural n when one stops to think that it requires the product of at five acres of ot land to feed eod ono one horse Tho The knowledge of oC this fact certainly Is sufficient to give S one pau pause o as os the tho saying is Few Fow of or these city elty farmers would undertake to cultivate vate more moro than five or perhaps ten acres and acres and It if a 3 horse is to eaf cat the tho product of at per por cent coat or oven CO 50 per percent percent percent cent of ot this city mans man's little farm farm- well the tho answer Is only too obvious IOUs And And yet t more fn 11 food must t be 1 Ya cal 1 d. d Mr M Hoover o r says th the ori only a way c this se can be dono done Is by using power m machinery instead of ot horses Mr M Hoover might have gone Cone on and shown up tho the horse as a 0 groat economic failure for tor forIt forIt It is certain that Old HOld Dobbin Is headed for tor the tho discard at a a. rapid rat rate a aOno Ono One factor that will hasten the tho trip of tho the equine to the and or the limbo of oC forgotten things is the tractor of ot which wl thero there are aro many sizes makes and models to choose from tram There is tho tractor for tho the little lander ander and one for tor tho the m man n who tills tho the soil in tho time thousands of oC acres and there are several so In between But Its It's a R. fairly farly safe prediction that the tractor will do for tor tho the countryside what tho the automobile and truck truel has done for tor the tho cities very Every tub must stand eland on its own bottom was written before the time days of ot autos Nowadays tho sends sonde out the tho S O. O S. S signal when his en engine engine on- on gine dies and his hlo fellow tellow stand by ready rendy either cither to assist at nt the or to remove passengers Auto Aulo drivers rs have strange tastes they collect tacks nails nalls broken glass class etc from the public public- highways This habit brings both weariness to the tho owner and a tired freshly-tired condition to the car Presidential possibilities are multiplying multi multi- plying some plying Rome of ot them may get punctured punctured punctured and need repairs the in-the- garage garas-c of at public publio opinion before betor election day Strange th that t a IB la never nOVer long longon I on money mon and short on tires at tho the same panne I |