Eureka Reporter | 1909-10-08 | Page 7 | Gasoline Engine for Plow Section

GASOLINE ENGINE FOR PLOW scarcity of labor causes introduction of innovate on that may revola t onize farming salina kan the first rain in kan sag sas will be a d signal for farmers to begin plowing their ground for the next crop of wheat the time will be short to prepare the ground for the seed and the farmer who has a large larke tract of ground to sow will have to employ a number of men and teams a feature of farm life which is at this time bor dering on the impossible owing to the scarcity of labor brice muir a farmer near this city has equipped his farm with a gasoline en gine and a six disk plow this piece of machinery promises now to solve the labor problem and revolutionize the work of preparing wheat land in large tracts with this plow mr muir can turn 13 to 15 acres of ground in a day of ten hours at less expense than em ern cloying men and teams A gallon of gasoline to the acre and the time of one man is about the only expense