Show Farm Shop as Important I to Farmer as Railroad The farm shop is Just as Important to the farmers as division point and terminal shops are arc to railroad mana managements man man- managements a C. C K Ft Shedd rural engineer engineer engineer en en- at the time Kansas State Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural tural colle college e Is convinced It flIt looks as if higher prices for machinery nave lave I come to sta stay and It will no I lunger Iunger nger be he possible for farmers to follow the wasteful method of using a n machine until It Is out of repair then throwing throwIng throwing throw throw- ing it away says Shedd If the machinery Is to be kept In service Ion longer er It must be maintained he lie points out A farmer cannot afford afford afford af af- af- af ford to go Into the busy season with machinery that Is Just about ready to I break down be lie declares Suppose that one Is using a cultivator with dull lull shovels and beams If weather conditions are arc favor favorable through June and the ground sta stays s 's reasonably l mellow be lie can do good work with such a cultivator On the theother theother theother other hand band If the weather is rainy for fora a week just when cultivating should be done the time ground is beaten down hard and has lias a healthy growth of weeds when It dries Now with such a cultivator ator it Is impossible Ie to do good work I have haye known a farmer to lose 25 bushels of corn per acre because e of the work worl done by hJ such a cultivator Probably most farmers of several years years' experience have observed similar similar simi simi- lar In results results results-In in a neighbors neighbor's ors or's field of course cours I |