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Show Farm Mechanization Soosts Production to Record Lev OMAHA. NEB. Americans a harvesting 20 million more acres Jay than they did in 1940, althoui :here are three million fewer peop doing it, and on 200.000 fewer fanr Fast-growing mechanization farms is largely responsible for tV feat, Joseph A. Hoban, merchandi manager of B. F. Goodrich coi pany, told members of Midwest It plement Dealers association. 1 cited the fact that the nation's tra tor "population" had doubled, fro one million to two million. Just sin 1940. Praising "the way America farmers and other food produce had come through to ease trag conditions in many lands," Hobi cited the following estimates on tl nation's 1947 exports of foodstuff 392 million bushels of wheat, fi times the amount exported in 193 88 million bushels of corn, cor pary?d to 32 million in 1939, and 3 million pounds of meat product against 193 million in 1939. The farm market offered "tl biggest sales opportunity" for i dustry in 1947, Hoban said, addii that "there is no question that th market is going forward at as gr.e or even greater pace in 1948." Hoban said that all tractors nc made are rubber-tired, and th changing all a farm's rolling stoi from steel to rubber tires produci an average saving of 24 workii days and 675 gallons of gasoline pi year, for each 150 acres worked. |