Show DO FAR FARM WORK VORK iN N 20 DAY FORD Declares Scars cars cars car's Pro Production nc tion tiou Can Be Bo Un Under er Contract DETROIT I h Feb 9 lly 9 ByThe Tile The Associated Press PreES Ford will attempt to e that work it takes lakes a farmer a year ear to todo todo do In producing farm tarot staples can loJO be b done In 15 to 20 days through application of ot efficient methods 1 according to an articles by Theo Theo- Theodore Theodore Theodore dore Price Pice appearing in toda today's issue of and Finance The experiment will be conduct conduct- conducted ed cd on ore a hu huge huso e farm tarm which the lo manufacturer has pur purchased chased near Dearborn and tho the test will be hl open to public observation Ford purposes to Prove tho the soundness of ot his theor theory of Industrialization of fanning arming the tho thoa a article states by application of lab U saving machinery organization organization organization tion and specialization His Ills estimate Price writes allow lIow two days for the plowing and harrowing that mut bo be done before planting ono one day for time the planting Itself five dl da dai for tor or during durin the growth and two days daya for harvesting and threshing which can now be bo done simultaneously by a machine which cuts cola threshes arid and bags bas the wheat as it Il is drawn through th the field by a tractor tra tor TJ The Tha total ot of o the time thus allocated allocate 1 would be beten beten boten ten days which Is only halt half ot of Mr Fords Ford's estimate and would leave leavo another ten days for tor ditch ditch- lug ng fencing distribution of fertil fertilizer izer and doing any other work worl fairly chargeable to the cost of prod producing a particular crop When thus analyzed the claim that 20 days la Is all 1111 the tho time that need be spent III in raising and l harvesting most of our staple crops dues does not seem preposterous but but as I pointed out to Mr Ford It supposes pre the thu use of such machinery and the tho labor of ot many hands that might not be bp obtainable It t they were only to be cd for a few lew days at a II time timo and not Dot more than 20 days das altogether In answer he said Buld that those who were ere willing witling to pay good Wages ld cO cou d easily be bo BO so organ organ- Iz organized that a continued employment lot tor the Iho labor engaged In It would ho be provided ills His conception as I grasped It it was that agricultural contractors who had hird the tho necessary men and could go from flom farm tarm to fame tarm and do the tho work that is to ho bo tobo done dono in a 1 few days s at a cost that would be bo much less than the tho of ot the tho time the farmer now to It it Obviously ho he did not meIJI mean that his hia proposal was aa applicable to dairy tannins or for tor the rais- rais rais raising ing of ot livestock l Ford old is quoted as saying that It if COt cost of agricultural production Is Isto to bo be reduced so that the farmer can make male a profit the tho farmer will soon o ha ha o a surplus con COD con consumption can b ba be Increased Thu Thia ho thinks could be bo brought about by sharing the tho economies economics with tho the public |