| Show farmers repairing equipment at homo home in increased creased use of arc AM welding aid to farm world VVO ald war il II and the rapid extension of government approved rural power lines to meet farm arm production emergencies contributed more than any other factors actors to the widespread use of transformer type welding being done efficiently on the farm arm electric are welders on farms welding was an entirely new job to most farmers when the war started but before it had progressed many months scores of them had I 1 become old hands at the fix it up make it do trade thus a war taught talent enters the peacetime picture with increasing popularity experience showed that many broken parts could be welded satisfactorily without having to remove them from the machine machin e and that such equipment then could be returned to the fields pr promptly especially when timesaving time saving welding jobs were done on the farm also farmers soon learned that they could use their welders welder to construct new equipment out of scrap parts and modify present equipment to suit their particular needs as well as make mak necessary repairs with the use of welders discarded repair parts and scrap metal can be made into teed feed cars manure loaders buck rakes milk can trucks and racks disc harrows and trailers broken sickle bars tractor wheel rims and spokes tractor hitch draw bars spring tooth points gears gear teeth and sprockets can be repaired and horse drawn equipment is modified for tractor use merely using your head will save your heels Is there an easier better way to do that job purdue university answers with yes there probably is there Is an easy and a hard way a laborsaving labor saving and a labor wasting way to do any job few of 0 us are doing our farm job the easiest way it if we use our heads we can save our heels as well as time e energy n ergy and expense but we rarely take time to save time we dont figure out the easiest most effective way we just get the job done grasshoppers day believing that there is an important relationship between the intensity of sunlight air temperature the body temperature ot of the grasshopper and where and when the pests do their eating professors pepper and hastings montana state college have designed a special thermocouple mo couple with which to take the temperature of 0 grasshoppers crop rotation plan should be balanced unless a farm arm has a well balanced rotation for its fields the chances are that the farmer who wo works that land is depleting the soil akst that and an d g getting arg lower yields of the crops he grows dr R L cook soils soil a specialist at michigan state college says that there are several ways in which crop rotation may result in soil improvement if a cultivated crop Is continuously produced on one field the organic matter content of the field Is decreased castrate pigs early for market results the earlier pigs intended tor for market are castrated cast rated the b better ater they w will weigh in when pigs are cas ial tr grated ted at three to four our weeks of 0 age they are easier to handle the wounds heal more quickly and t the he pigs are usually under closer supervision so that the wounds can be watched closely incisions should be made low to permit good drainage and to give the finished barrow a neater appearance |
