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Show TRACTOR I LONGER MYSTIFIED FARMER Has Become Educated in Their Use; Familiar With Mechanism. The farmer is becoming educated in the use of the tractor. In almost every community there are few of the more progressive farmers who have owned tractors for some time and who serve as centers from which tractor knowledge is spread. These tractor owners themselves them-selves are fairly well posted, and neighboring neigh-boring farmers are learning from observation, ob-servation, so that more of them than one suspects know a good deal about what a tractor should be and what it ought to do. This is very clearly evident when a tractor demonstration is held. One who circulates among the farmers present and keeps his ears open, will hear many comments that give proof that the farmers farm-ers are thinking along correct lines when they consider tractor construction construc-tion and tractor performance. The tractor trac-tor is no longer a novelty nor are the farmers attracted to the demonstration out of sheer curiosity. They go with a cousiderable Quantity of information already in their possession, and their criticisms are based uxn an accurate conception of what a tractor should do. Tly do not follow the tractor from one end of the field to the other as they used to do, but they gather in its wake and discuss the quality of the work it has performed. Afterward they will gather around the tractor and examine it from a standpoint of construction. This will be discussed as to accessibility accessibil-ity and governing system. They make pointed inquiries regarding lubrication and want to know all there is to know about ignition. They ask about , fuel consumption. They "give evidence in every way that their interest centers in the question as to whether the particular par-ticular tractor w-ill meet their indi-divual indi-divual requirements, indicating that a time is coming very speedily when the farmer will buy a tractor on its merits and because it gives promise of doing that particular work which he wants done, and not because of any idea in his mind that ho ought to have a tractor, trac-tor, just because a tractor happens to be the fashion. Another thing which is evident, is that the farmer is coming to the realization reali-zation that he himself is really the determining de-termining factor in tractor economy on his farm. He knows that he is buving a piece of mechanism which requires careful handling and considerable treatment. treat-ment. He does not expect that it will work indefinitely without some trouble and he appreciates the fact that the degree of tho trouble experienced will depend in the largest measure upon himself. He has commenced to understand under-stand the limitations of the tractor. The tractor buyer also takes into consideration con-sideration today and the dealer who engages in the tractor business cannot underestimate this without detriment to himself accessibility to a stock of repairs re-pairs and the qualitv of sen-ice which may be expected. The farmer knows that the value to him of the tractor lies in continuous performance. To insure this he must be where he can get service serv-ice when he requires it and repairs when 'needed.- Motor Age. |