| Show FARM MACHINERY GREAT AID how one farmer by fully utilizing his implements did the work of two men prepares prepared by the united states department of agriculture farm machinery makes it possible in some places and at some soma times for ono one man to do the work that two did before on a recent trip through the corn belt states I 1 saw on one farm two big strong men each with a team of horses and a single moldboard mold board plow following each other around the field said G 1 I christie aasi assistant stant to the secretary of agriculture who Is supervising the departments farm labor activities tivi tiit ties les under the direction of assistant secretary ousley on an adjoining farm a boy not more than seventeen years old was driving tour four big horses hitched lilt clied to a two furrow plow and doing a work equal to if not greater than that accomplished by the two men on another farm there were two men on one wagon spreading manure with forks while close by another farmer with three horses and a manure spreader was accomplishing a larger amount ot of work in a more efficient way in a similar way the double cutaway harrow the wide cutter bar of of the mower find and the binder the sheaf carrier on the grain harvester the milking machine the farm tractor haying tools and other machinery are making it possible zor tor farmers to handle their work with a materially reduced d 11 c e d number n u in b C r of me men n 1 |
