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Show YANK TRACTORS ENTERJSLANDS More Than 800 Shipped During Dur-ing Past Year to Foreign Merchants Tbn American agricultural tractor ha lllvaded the Philippines In force, we learn from the World's Markets. During the fiscal Near just ended over 800 tractors of various types have in rn sold In tbe archipelago and there has been a fairly general scramble on the part, of the Importers ot farm ma- Ichlner) and similar products to get I 1 1 he !igen les nf promising American makes. The tractor propaganda Is In I ii- 1 1 r and Philippine planters are generally open to conviction on thej proposition thai It will sohe the pr ss-mg ss-mg need of Philippine agriculture for more abundunt and more effective power- The tractor haa entered the Philippines Philip-pines at the psychological moment Ai crisis has been reached In the develop - ! menl of the agricultural resources of, the country because of the lack of or aft power necessary for the- Cultivation Cultiva-tion of crops The archipt I.iko for-, elgn trade Is dependent almost en- tirely on the products of the soil. in their efforts to meet the urgent dc-n dc-n ands from abroad the planters have mcountered a most disconcerting shortage of draft animals and consequently conse-quently their efforts to Increase production pro-duction haie been seriously retarded. Hence, the present lively Interest, particularly among the more progres-ive progres-ive farmers in the various iiis ot tractors now helng turned out bj American manufacturers Motor Life nn |