Show POWER FARMING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF agriculture a two foot stand of cotton with a fordson tractor drawn cultivator PIE department of agriculture of the state college of pennsylvania B deducting the most exhaustive ex ever undertaken to develop us and varied uses for light tractor ra american farms abu development of power farm eg for greater economy m time labor d general operating costs is being with the aid of the depart kat of agriculture of the federal through the use of 1 appropriations from the purnell vs which the government haa for aa purposes for several years agricultural experts t the state college of pennsylvania abc teen that farmers the country w ire not putting their light trac w to the broadest possible range of t too many of the farmers they v found confine their tractor work 0 plowing and harrowing when they light be employing these came light tractor also for planting and cultivating praying and for the harvesting of a wider variety of crops than have heretofore been thought to be suitable for tractor and tractor equipment work the use of horse drawn equipment with the extra time and labor required to handle it and the cost of feeding horses and mules during the comparatively idle winter season is becoming almost prohibitive to many american banners light tractors are becoming cheaper and more efficient Manu fac jurers of farm equipment arc giving more and more attention to the adap tation of farm machinery to tractor power units experiments such as are being conducted on the test farms of the state college of pennsylvania are heralded as the beginning of the end for old dobbin on the future progressive american farm |