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Show Sounds Doom of Farm .Horse. Good-by lo Dobbin, the faithful and sturdy old farm horse, writes David Dee-croft Dee-croft in Technical World Magazine. No longer will "the plowman homeward plod his weary way." Instend he will simply sim-ply turn on the second speed of his agricultural agri-cultural motor car and go dashing up tho lane to the farmhouse at the rale of twenty miles an hour. In the early months of 1002, what proved to be the first successful gasoliue agricultural motor appeared, contesting at nearly all of tho great agricultural competitions of the season in England, and carrying off tho gold medals from the horse In every contest. Plowing proved to be the first phase of farm labor to which the agricultural motor was introduced, and at which, four years ago, It. made Its Initial reputation. reputa-tion. Steam engines had proven too heavy for the soft land being plowed, and hero the agriculturist expected to mire the Internal combustion motor, but he signally sig-nally failed For a plowing test among horses, 'steam power and the gasoline motor, mo-tor, two and three-quarter acres of very heavy clay soil were selected. It was a condition that the furrows wcro to bo nine inches wide and six Inches deep. In doing the work' nlno horses, three to a plow, with three drivers and threo boys, did the work at a total coBt of ?8.28. or at the rate of ?3.68 por acre. By steam power the total cost of plowing plow-ing the same area amounted to a total of ?9.08, or $4.08 cents per acre, and wJtb the gasoline motor the cost totalled ?1.H, or at 51.97 per acre. For plowing purposes pur-poses a threo-furrowcd plow Is Invariably Invaria-bly used except In heavy clay soils, where a couplo of furrows prove oufflcleat. |