Show Farmer Must M st Learn Care of Tractor as Well as Auto I There is about the same samo amount of I machinery involved in a tractor that there is in an automobile and the theman theman theman man who sells the farmer farmer a tractor should either go out into the field and spend some time with the new owner as the automobile man does or he should satisfy himself that the new owner is familiar with the use of self driven machinery In the hands of a man who is not acquainted with the with the ways of a motor the motor the best machine ever made may fail Man has not yet learned to make machinery machin machin- ery foolproof A DIFFICULTY One difficulty that confronts the I dealer in tractors in this respect is I that the tractor is not a traveling machine as an automobile is It stays I 1 at home most of the time one its owners owner's place and is not constantly darting in and out of the nearest I town like the motor car This means that a trip to the farm is necessary every time there is a lesson to be given and a consequent loss of considerable considerable considerable con con- time on the part of the dealer If the tractor is ili to give the service service service ser ser- vice it is intended to give and which it is entirely capable of giving when properly handled the man who buys it must learn how to operate it without without without with with- out abusing it and how to remedy the small defects that will occur from time to time When the horse is overworked improperly fed or poorly cared for he develops ailments and diseases Most of those the farmer knows how to remedy from exp experience experience ri- ri ence or if he does not happen to be beable beable beable able to put his hand on the proper remedy for the specific trouble one of his neighbors can usually tell him This is because the horse is an ancient ancient ancient an an- institution and rules for his care and use have been handed down from generation to generation until they are almost second nature to us SOMETHING NEW With the tractor it is different It Itis Itis Itis is new and its diseases and ailments are new We must know how the machine is made before we know how how- t to use it properly or take care of it properly or cure it when it develops ailments Just as we must know something something something some some- thing of the construction of the horse to understand his care At the present time there are just two ways ways for the farmer to learn these facts The local dealer who is really onto his job should understand understand understand under under- stand thoroughly the the- working and construction of the machine he sells and bo be sure that he explains carefully carefully care care- fully and demonstrates very every possible possible possible ble detail to his customers customers This will insure his machines giving tion Another possibility is the tractor school where details of mechanical operation and instruction are comprehensively comprehensively comprehensively compre compre- taught Wh n possible for forthe forthe i the man who owns a motor car a tractor tractor tractor trac trac- tor or an engine of any kind to take a course in one of these schools that thatIs Is an excellent thing There There- is no education a farmer can give his boy bor when he lie has finished the grade schools that will prove more valuable to him than one of these courses of instruction YOUNGSTERS In most neighborhoods there is some young man or boy who is inclined to tobe tobe tobe be especially interested in mechanics If he could be given such instruction he might become of great value to the whole neighborhood bye by helping the neighbors acting as' as a machinery machin I ery surgeon for a stated sum per pel call and it would be an excellent way of keeping t i some of the bright in intelligent intelligent in- in boys away from the cities where the love of machinery is apt to lead them I At all events when one buys a tractor or any other machine he should learn just as much as he possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly can about operating it A perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- good machine may be he ruined by running it for a time without oil oilIn oilin oilin In some vital part or by allowing a abUIT burr bUIT to come off of and let lot something drop drOl into the moving F ports darts P. P Not ver very i 0 I long ago a man with whom we are I well acquainted had a loose burr ou on his car hr and it dropped into the en en- gine Before he ho could stop his car he ho had suffered damage to it that cost over 80 to repair This only goes to show what neglect and ignorance ignorance ignorance ig ig- norance of the importance of Various various various va va- rious things about a piece of machinery machin machin- ery cry can do to it ON UPHOLSTERY ro The The- glossy finished c leather leathor substitute substitute I tute upholstery is better than the dull dun dunI I finished the latter being prone to I crack or lose its coloring material through friction Use of the dull material material material ma ma- brings a sort of half glossy finish finish finish fin fin- ish and the cracking ceases but it itis itis itis is better to get the bright finish in inthe inthe the first place I Furs obtrude themselves upon the shoppers' shoppers notice even though it is early In the season to consider their pos pos- A full fun length belted coat of Nutria fur fUI has deep cuffs on the bell sleeves and a high convertible collar of skunk The sleeves have wind windshields windshields windshields shields of the silk and do nicely for a muff The lining is of brown pussy willow silk with a pink floral design I over it it and is finished with soft puff all around the edge The new fur I capes fall below the waist line and have loops to button that over so they form a which makes them I more practical for motor wear The large saddle muffs and wide stoles are I best for touring |