Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-09 | Page 7 | An Elephant is as Strong as Forty Men

AN ELEPHANT IS AS STRONG AS 11 FORTY MEN. IH "A horse is about aB strong as five H men, and an elephant is as strong as H eight horses. And while we admire HH American ingenuity," writes D. S. Burch in an article on "Tractors Do 11 the Drudgery," "let us not forget that for centuries the elephant has been H tho Important draft animal in India." H An excerpt of the article follows: t' H "The elephant Is really the nearest S jH approach to a living one-man farm H tractor. So the idea of concentrating H horsepower as is done by tractors is H not so new after all. We'vo simply H Invented a docile mechanical elephant H that can stand this climate. The ox, H the mule, and the horso havo been H faithful laboring friends; but some- I H how I feel that wo need a mechanical H servant too. H "Slnco attending one of the big trac- H tor demonstrations, I bavo felt this i IH still moro keenly, And tho man who H gavo mo that confident feeling was, H strangely, a grizzled old fanner who H at first seemed a kill-Joy to every- I H thing new. This man was conserva- I H tive about new crops, new methods of I H tillage, and new modes of living. Ho H hadn't gotten over the fact that auto- H mobiles used to scare his horses, and H In two days 1 didn't see him smile H once; but he had come to buy -a trac- I H '"We've always needed something H better than horses," he said, 'to do H the heavy work.aud theso tractors look H all right. They have the power, and H they won't get scared at every llttlo H scrap of paper and dun away.' That's H haw ho felt about tractors. When I H left him he was trying to decode be- , jH tween two machines, both of them H good ones. H "Close to one hundred styles of gas H tractors aro now mado by about thirty- H five different firms. They range in M price from $350 to about $3,000. Four M sell for less than $500, and about H twenty sell for between $500 and H $1,000, and the rest aro higher priced." H