| Show POWER FARMING TO SO SOLVE I 1 IV IL PROBLEMS 00 OF agriculture r to i cultivating a two foot stand of cotton with a fordson tractor drawn cultivator THE HE department of agriculture of 0 the state college of pennsylvania is conducting the most exhaustive experiments peri ments ever undertaken to develop new and varied uses for light tractors on american farms this development of power farming for greater economy in time labor and general operating costs is being conducted with the aid of the department of agriculture of the federal government through the use of special appropriations from the purnell fund which the government has for tuch such purposes for several reveral years agricultural experts at the state college of pennsylvania ania have seen that ermers i amers the c auntry antry over are not putting put nill their ight tractors to the broadest possible rny r n c of ut tife too many of the farmers thy th ih y have found conf confine iric abr th r tractor w wr rl to T row av ia and h row n yin vin they tica mi iiii t als la e t ce eme E tle me alst tractors also for planting and cultivating spraying and for the harvesting of 0 a wider variety of crops than have heretofore been thought to be suitable for tractor and tractor equipment work the use of horse drawn equipment with the extra time and labor required to handle it and the cost of feeding horses and mules during the comparatively idle win winter winer er season is becoming elmost prohibitive to many american farmers light tractors are becoming cheaper and more eCcie nt manufacturers of firm farm equipment ar are e giving and more inore attention to the adap tat caan cri cf farm machinery to tractor por er units ex reri menta such as are being coni dc d c 1 in n th test erms of the state co i y e cf a are arc heralded raided hc q the I 1 ln indro of the llie end for old djan dj abin on the future progressive amer zan fann |
