| Show BEST MACHINERY FOR FARM before making purchase it would be well fop for farmer to consider several essentials by A if 11 BENTON BlInne sota expert merit station A difficult problem on the american farm is to decide bow how much and what kind of machinery should be purchased some farms arms are tire so over oyer stocked with machinery that the depreciation interest and repairs eat up much of the profits assuming the average depreciation on machinery at ten lea per cent and the interest on the money invested at six per cent we have an average yearly expense of approximately 13 on each invested in machinery I 1 A man who has 1500 1600 worth of ma mai i chinery would have expense on this alone in interest and de dep precia tion if his work could be done with halt half this amount he could save 97 60 50 this would be equivalent to the in terest on 1625 at six per cent A A farm of EO 0 acres cannot ably use four horse machinery because three horses should do the work on a farm of this size in buying machinery too large in proportion to the size of the farm unnecessary expense Is added this comes ai pot ot only in th the e increased cost of the machinery but also in the maintenance of any extra horses required before purchasing new machinery it Is well to consider the following questions will the use of the new machine give me a larger net return from the crops on which it Is used will the new machine reduce the demand for man mail labor where a machine Is to required only a few days each year can it not be rent ed more cheaply than purchased will the money to be invested return more in some other way vay lias has the machine been thoroughly 7 tried by others and found satisfactory |
