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Show w -c ft ? ft a ir -fir it if ft To Aid Man Power. Prof. G. I. Christie, assistant to Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Houston, recently recent-ly pointed out some striking illustrations illustra-tions of how the available labor supply sup-ply could be used to much better advantage ad-vantage if supplemented by machinery ma-chinery ; of how some labor is not fully utilized because machinery is not used. On one. farm in the corn belt he saw two strong men, each with a team of horses and a single moldboard plow, following each other around the field. On an adjoining farm a seventeen-year-old boy, driving four horses 1 to a two-furrow plow, was doing as much and better work. On one farm two men with two horses to a wagon were spreading manure with forks. On an adjoining farm one man with three horses to a manure spreader was accomplishing ac-complishing a larger amount of work in a more efficient way. For lack of proper machinery the labor of one of the men plowing and one of the men scattering manure was thrown away. Professor Christie points out that during dur-ing the rest of the season farmers can handle their work with a materially reduced number of men if they avail themselves of such things as the double cutaway harrow, wide cutter bar of mower and binder, sheaf carrier car-rier on the grain harvester, tractor, haying tools, milking machine. |