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Show i ins: in an xtra axle under the frame, two feet in front of the rear axle of the ar. on which were placed two binder wheels. After removing t he rear wheels of his car. Hell replaced them with small sprocket wuHs. which were connected with large sprockets on the drive wheel by a chain. This reduced the speed of the car and Rave It more power. Virtually all of Bell's neighbors who were interested in his experiment believed be-lieved t he scheme to he Impractical. They tried to convince him that the engine en-gine would neat up too much and ds i-larert the gears could not possible stand the continuous strain. But, although the machine lias been In almost constant use throughout the summer, no trouble has developed. It hay been run as many as fourteen hours a day. drawing h net of discs and a set of Blxteen-foot harrows, without even needing a fresh supply of water. Bell says that he waa able to seed thirty acres a day or harrow from sixty to seventy acres with his automobile. By drawing two twelve-inch bushers. he managed to break five acres of soil a day. or the equivalent to the work done by six to eight horses. The Overland consumed just seventy gallon of gasoline to put in the crop, while the cost of horse feed alone would have more than doubled the expenditure. The saving in time and labor was another an-other important Item. Tt took less than an hour to change the rigging of the car, so that at any time when its owner desired to make t he trip to town all tha t was necessary was to take oft" the farm equipment and t rmisform the machine into a full-fledged full-fledged touring car. OVERLAND MAKES TRACTOR ON FARM After driving a 1912 Overland touring rar more than 20,000 miles over the rough roads of Saskatchewan, A. W. Bell, a native of Saskatoon, conceived the Idea of putting it to work on his farm. His theory was that If the car could stand three years of traveling over the so-called roads of that sec 1 ion of the country, it could go n step better and do i lie practical prac-tical work. The Overland was converted into a tractor by the simple arrsngement of put- |