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Show THE OLD MAN WHO WANTED HIS HAY CUT BY HAND In the current Issue of Farm nnd Fireside appears an Interesting discussion dis-cussion of tho advantages and economics eco-nomics that come to farmers who use machinery. Following is an extract: "When wo camo on the farm about a quarter of n century ago an old man in our neighborhood was still cutting all his grass by hand, paying from a dollar and a half to two dollars dol-lars a day for men with tno scythe. For a good whllo this same man had his hay ra,ked by hand. Ills reason for doing this was that he thought tho ha' was better cut and raked by hand. Thero would bo moro dust ho thought in tho hoy cut nnd raked by machinery and thnt would affect tho health of tho cowsl "It is nil right of course, to look for the health of the cows; but as a matter of fact, it was simply a notion no-tion that hand cut hay was a bit Defter Def-ter than that harvested by machinery. machin-ery. Ilut the thing that drovo the good old man to farm machinery was the ndvnnced cost of farm labor. It cost him n good deal more to get his haying done tho old way and by watching other farmers who used machinery ma-chinery and asking some questions ho lenrned that ho was standing In his own light and really wasting money." |