Show L I t l s t t STEAM PLOWS I IN N KANSAS Farmers Able AlIe to j Plant More Jore 1 Wheat t Than hul They Timey Can Cun Cut Cot s. The steam plow has' has become a aC C familiar object In Kans Kansas Managers of oC time the big Implement houses house here lere s say that about O outfits have i been sold In the time last twelve months and ancl that about GOO COO arc uio in use on the tho western westen and ancl central Kansas Jana plains wherever cr the are large enough and the time ground l level lel el enough to permit per pot mit mi their operation All through th the portions of or orthe the wheat belt bel traction tracton engines with wheel heel tiros tro nearl nearly a yard wide wIlle nr are arc at work cork Bulling the time gang plows I and ancl turning up the soil ol at the rate of or thirty acres 8 a day with wih two men working each outfit These two men omen working in imm the old way say could plow plow- only about Ix acres a day clay so o that the steam stear p lo ilow low has Increased the of labor fivefold In lii this one character of oC farm work These TheMe outfits cost about 1900 but the expense of plowing plow averages only about 40 jO O cents an aim acre as ns compared with an expense of 75 cents cens to an acre when the work worl Is lone done b by a aman aman aman man citha J a team Therefore a farmer who owns 1000 acres of wheat land can save enough In a few Cew years to pay pay for for a steam plow Kansas City dealers s say that about halt half the steam plows In the West Vest are owned o b by largo large farmers Carmels and the re remainder remainder re- re belong to thrashing machine then men who rhio run the plows In the spring and the late fall fail fal when the they are not bus busy thrashing grain grin I The rho rush to get the fall fail plowing finished while the ground Is In good condition has prompted some farmers farmer to run their steam plows plow's plo s at night with wih a great glaring headlight gleamIng gleamIng gleaming gleam- gleam Ing aCIo s the time fields as ns well wel as aM inthe In Inthe II the daytime The he only objection to the time steam plow plots Is that It I enables farmers to plant more mOIo wheat than the they can harvest In portions of central and western Kansas s where the thc farms are large lam and th the e population I is comparatively sparse a favorable fall Cal for Cor plowing and plant plant- a a steam plow Ing outfit at hand han d result resul In such large areas of wheat ds dt that when tho the h harvest r esl season come comes the task of gathering the crop must mus wait on omm tho the Incoming of or hun hundreds reds o ol oj strangers to labor tot for tota a a few rew weeks I Ithe ithe Ir ii the harvest est fields Kansas Kansas Kansas City Star |