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Show Tractors Saved Kansas. Tho wheat, crop of not less than 2,-000.000 2,-000.000 acres of western Kansas land is directly credited to tho high development devel-opment of automobile tractors and agricultural implements, in certain computations com-putations put out in Kansas by competent com-petent authorities. According to these students of the situation the acreage cultivated in tho state this year would have hen less thun :j,000,000 had not the practicability of tho traction en-pine en-pine as a plow puller been established. Kansas could not possibly havo plowod and sowed her usual 7,000,000 acres if it had not been for the power plowing outfits. There were not sufficient horses to do the plowing when the rnins came. Traction engines and motor trucks are doing the work that formerly S0,-000 S0,-000 horses and mules on tho Kansas wheat farina did. |