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Show Cheaper Than Horses. Tho following is tho record of a gasoline tractpr used in England for drawing agricultural machines: Six acres ol grass cut In threo hours and forty minutes, using flvo and a half gallons of gasoline; threo acres of grass cut In ono hour and thirty-five minutes, using threo gallons of gasoline; gaso-line; two and one-tenth acres of land, with hnrd surface, plowed to an average aver-age depth of seven Inches, In flvo hours and fifty minutes, using a double furrow plow, and consuming seven and three-fourths gallons of gasoline; nineteen acres of wheat harvested In ten hours, using eight and one-half gallons of gasoline. Tho cost of the machine is said to be $1,G00. |