Show I Machines Plus Far Farmer n f Ingenuity Spells Sire Sr Spells Success F For Mod Modern Farm The modern modem farmer through the use ue of ot machines and his hil own ingenuity is II gradually eliminating backaches backache once commonly asso- asso elated with farm work A. A Io good d example may knar maybe be t found uld out i in n Odgen Utah where Henl Henry DeVries built a machine which takes take the constant contant bending out but ut of the task of thinning beets Mr DeVries' DeVries took four toW wire wheels wheel and a II tran transmission Ilon from Irom froman froman an cuI early model modeS automobile a three horsepower gas las motor and some two inch steel pipe to construct cont con con- a beet thinning machine on which the five live DeVries brothers ride along a couple of inches above th the ground round seated comfortably on salvaged mowing machine seats With a normal crop the they can ean usually thin six Ibe acres acrel a a day elay with ease Ordinarily a a man with a ashor ashor shor b handled hoe boe working lon long hours houn can thin an acre cre a day cia but hes he's constantly bending over Guiding the machine is 11 a simple operation performed by the man riding nearest the front who steers Iteen wl with one ne foot L The engine trans trans- K This simply c machine ma IDa chine taker lakes tile the backache set out t ef of the he business of b beets beele beetson eta on OD Utah farm ana Maa Kaa at right I teen steers with foot leaving hands bands free mite its Ita own owa power via a belt to the oar ear transmission thus thUi making mak mat I In lag ing possible several leVrat speeds peeds Which I one bused is JI used depends upon the field and the operation The machines machine's 11 used coed on on head lettuce as a well wen as a. a beets beell and will wUI run aD all day on op a gallon ot gasoline At the end of each row the five live riders get t off oft and wing using a steel tongue turn the machine around and head bead back down the field |