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Show TRACTOR 10 REPLACE THE FAi LABORER ! Smith Attachment Has Beenj Proved Ideal for Small j Grower. j i j Tn Kansas those who are remarking remark-ing about the large number of tractors which are being bought by farmers with which to do fall plowiug and to assist in raising the billion bushel of wheat crop in 1918. The same phenomenon is to be observed in other states as well. But in Kansas attention has been , called to one aspect of this tractor j question wyhich is significant. It is that both buying and inquiries come for the ; most part from farmers who farm 200 acres or more, with a few scattered inquiries in-quiries only from farmers who do not work more than a quarter section of land. From farmers who-work less than 160 acres practically no inquiries about the possibilities of tractors come at all. The same condition exists in other localities lo-calities as well, but it happens that it has received recent official notice in Kansas alone. It nas been said that this is significant, signifi-cant, and it is. It means that with the kind and type of standard tractor now on the market, both as regards the number num-ber of them available and their usefulness useful-ness on the farm, only the large farmer ean afford them. The farmer who works 160 acres or less, the average farmer of the country, can not make economical use of them. This is a fact which it is important to consider, too, because the average farmer is vastly in the majority, and to him, for the most part, must the country look for that bilKon bushels of wheat. Power farming means increased production. pro-duction. Thus the crying need of the situation is for some device which the average farmer can get which will put him into the class, power farmer, which will be within his financial reach and which can be employed by him economically economi-cally in his farming operations. Such a device is the tractor- attachment, the conversion unit which converts an automobile auto-mobile into a tractor, and of which some score now are upon the market. The Smith Form-a-Tractor, manufactured bv the Smith Form-a-Tractor company, Chicago, is typical of such devices. The manufacturers of tractor attachments, attach-ments, convinced in their own minds that they have solved the power prob- lem for the average farmer, and confirmed con-firmed in their opinion by a comparison of tho work done by standard tractors and tractor attachments in the field, and further assured of their position by the interest which the average farmer is taking in tractor attachments, have decided to organize a national association as-sociation of tractor attachment manufacturers. manu-facturers. A meeting will be held soon in Chicago Chi-cago which will be attended by representatives repre-sentatives of all the companies making tractor attachments, at which time a permanent organization will be formed. The purpose of the organization is to work harmoniously for the basic principle prin-ciple of the tractor attachment as compared com-pared with that of the standard tractor as the device which will put the average aver-age farmer in the power class economically econo-mically and effectively. The need of the hour is something which will supplement sup-plement the farmer's efforts and which will supplv for him the lack of efficient effi-cient farm labor, and which shall be applicable to anv farm, both small and large. The tractor attachment is that thing, and it will be the purpose of the proposed national organization to bring this fact prominently before the average aver-age farmers of the country and thus help them to grow a billion bushels of wheat in 1918. |