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Show Statistics Made on Farm Equipment, Statistics regarding the use of tractors trac-tors have been obtained by the1 bureau of farm management of the! department of Hgrlculturo from 600' replies to a questionnaire sent to farms in central Illinois It has been: proved that with a twenty- nch horse-drawn horse-drawn plow one man accomplishes from 70 to SO per cent more than with a single bottom plow. One man with' a twenty-eight-inch plow drawn, by a! motor tractor covers 3ir to 35 per cent more ground In i dav than does a man usln six horses on a horse-drawn' plow of the same size. A three-bot-l torn plow drawn by a suitable tractor enables one. man to accomplish accom-plish from 60 to 70 per cent more than does the two-botlom plow drawn bv six hornoM Motor T.lf |