Show greater acreage made possible by improved machines INCREASE CORN production larger plows harrow and other implements clements ts mako it possible to ac more work per man on farm prepared by the united states depart anent ot agriculture the more extensive use of labor saving implements will make it easler in 1918 to approximate the record break ing acreage of 1917 especially when employed in sections where corn Is now grown profitably but on a more limited scale than Is desirable because present methods require a large amount 0 man labor the more gen eral use of recently developed and improved tractors that are adapted to the uses of the small farm as well as tho large farm would tend to increase the acreage and to effect a saving in labor the use of larger plows harrows and other implements used in fitting the land would make it possible to accomplish more work per man similarly the substitution of two row planters and two row and double cul in place of smaller and less efficient implements would make it possible to do the same amount of work with less expenditure of labor replant missing hills in some corn growing sections it Is the practice to replant missing hills as soon as the corn Is up to a stand frequently this Is done by dropping kernels by hand and covering with a hoe A laborsaving labor saving and quicker meth od would be the use of small hand planters these could be used to nd vantage for the first planting also in sections where comparatively small areas are planted and where it Is at present the custom to drop the corn by hand and cover with the hoe it Is the practice in some localities to plant a much larger number of ker nels than the number of stalks desired and to thin to the desired stand when the corn plants are about 0 to 8 inches tall this method may be sat Is factory where plenty of labor Is two row cultivator Is a labor saver available but where it Is desirable to economize labor it would be advisable to plant tested aeed at about the same rate as the stand desired and do no thinning A more general use of efficient bar vesting machinery would permit a more economical use of labor A corn binder with an attachment for llevat ing the bundles of corn into a wagon should be used much more extensively than it Is for harvesting ensilage corn there Is also on the market a machine that converts the corn into ensilage in the field elevating it into a wagon from which it Is sucked or lifted into the silo the use of either of these machines especially the latter would do away with the necessity of much laborious work harvest by machinery A large percentage of the cutting and shocking of corn Is done by hand labor in some sections because of unfavorable topography or other rca sons it Is not practicable to use ma chine cutters however the greater part of the corn that Is now cut by hand labor could be harvested by ma chinery economizing labor and dong the work in a less laborious manner much of the corn that ii now husked shocks could be bandied more economically and with a saving in feed value of stover by substituting ma chine buskers huskers and shredders for hand labor the use of corn pickers would accomplish similar results in the case of corn husked from the standing stalks unloading and elevating ma chinery at the crib should be introduced and more generally gene rilly used in many sections where it Is now unknown or not commonly used where such facilities are not available cribs should be constructed in such a roan ner that they can be filled and emptied with the least possible labor for level ground double cribs with an elevated driveway and approaches that will enable the loads to be driven through the cribs and dumped or scooped out of the w afons without any high pitching are very satisfactory |