Show SAVE MAN LABOR BY USING MORE HORSES LARGER implements SAND AND POWER MACHINES tamal jr INCREASED efficiency OF FARM WORK WITH HORSES Pr prepared erand by the united state states depart lent ment of agriculture in solving farm arm labor more horses larger implements lind mad power machinery play an important part if two horses which have licea been driven singly by two men are combined into a team driven by one man tho the efficiency of the horses Is 1 as great or greater than before and one roans mans time Is saved the two horse turning plow is 1 la in use in all part parts of the country but except on small fanna farms it nearly always v will fit be profitable to replace the two horse home plow by a larger one do four horses can pull a two tuo bot tom plow as easily rally as two can pull a single bottom of corresponding size the two bottom plow enables a farmer to do what nhat la Is generally the beav test work of he the year with nith half balf the help thai that would be required if single bottom plow were fusul d in hot cr er or where the plowing la Is hard five live or even pren six horses will sometimes be cessare to keep the flow moving steadily and at a good rate of speed plowing with tractors Trac tore tractor users say they can do just as good plowing with a tractor as they did ath horses or even better and a three or four plow tractor enables a fermer who has more plowing than can be done ith the largest horse drawn plow further to increase the amount of work which one man can do one man with a three plow tractor usually covers a little more ground a day than three men with single plows and ono one man with a four tour plow tractor does more than two men with two tuo bottom horse drawn plows the tractor work works last just as well ell in hot weather and if desired can be worked 24 hours a do day r with ith two or three shifts of men roca mena a big advantage over horse drawn outfits the tooth harrow Is an implement of compa comparatively light draft and sometimes som fUmes it ie Is kolble to put an extra section on the avera average ge harrow thereby increasing considerably tho ground covered without the addition of any horses to the team on farm farms where two two hose harrows are used it Is frequently to combine tho the two wo harrow harrows hitch tho the four horses ns one team and operate it with ono man thereby releasing the second man for other work use of disk harrow the disk harrow both singia and double Is found in a wide range of widths and for from two to eight horses the use of a disk harrow drawn by two tuo horses is not advisable unless only two wo hordes horses are available for power and tho amount of disking to be done Is small A four horse disk does twice as much work nork as a two to horse disk without the same ex expenditure of man labor the use of a gang plow drawn by four or more horses and of big lm ti for harrowing rolling and drugging enables one min to prepare tor for planting in n glen time practically twice as much land arnould as would be possible it he used tho traditional two horse method |