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Show ; Ill 10 TRE TRACTOR i If you are a farmer of eighty acres I or more, you can render your country Invaluable service in this time of na- tional Btress by increasing the production produc-tion of your farm. There are several means at your command by which you i can do this, but the logical way seems I to be the tractor way. If you are a large farmer, operating j large tracts of farm land, you uo doubt I already know how profitable an m- vestment Is the tractor. But if you are a small farmer of eighty acres up to 250 acres, you may not know that there are tractors on the market which will not only prove a profitable In - i vestment, bur almost an Indispensable' addition to your farm equipment. Such tractors have been designed along light, simple lines so that one man can handle them as easily as horses, whether he be plowing, disc - i ing. harrowing, cultivating, running j the binder, mower, or using any other farm Implement. Since these tractors do from 75 per cent to 100 per cent of the things horses hors-es will do (depending on the make), they will permit the elimination of' from 75 per cent to 100 per cent of the horses on your place. This Is why they are solving the problem of tractors trac-tors on small farms. The owner of a tractor like this need not feed horses the year around and in addition tie up money in a tractor. The horses he 6ells will probably pay for a moderately priced, satisfactory tractor trac-tor liko this. And the tractor will eat only while at work. With such a tractor you can'turn two or three furrows where before you turned only one; you can move the plows across the field twice as fast; you can plow earlier in the season and deeper, preparing a seed bed so soft and porous and so early in the season that the early rains will be absorbed Instead of running away, thus stor ing the moisture for faster, thriftier growth in your crops and as a safeguard safe-guard against droughts and resulting crop failures. This way you can grow two or three bushels where before you only grew one. With this kind of tractor farming: you can do all your work quicker and 1 easier, cultivating seven times instead ( of four and harvesting during the briefest periods of good weather, without with-out bad weather losses such as you periodically experienced with old, slow methods. This way much of the drudgery', many of the discouragements many of 'the crop failures will be eliminated; farm work will be more profitable and attractive, and farm boys will stay on the farm. With tractor farming like this with a tractor that will do 75 per cen to 100 per cent of your work without horses you can indeed serve your country as well as yourself efficiently. You can grow many times bigger crops with less hired help and thus answer your country' call in even d more helpful way, perhaps, than the man who goes to the front and faces tho guns of the enemy. Orchard and Farm, Los Angeles, Cal. |