Show USE OF LARGER implements AND MORE HORSES HELP TO SOLVE LABOR PROBLEM t 13 2 1 nea za ole 4 vol r examples of methods which save man power one man operating tractor drawing three plows and another with a four mule team operating large harrow prepared by the united states depart anent of agriculture it if two men driving one horse each can combine the two horses into one team which one man can drive and this team can do as much or more work than two did singly it wise to combine them and save one mans time and if the farm Is large and conditions warrant it wise to combine two of these two horse teams teama into one and save another mans time 4 work which Is generally done in some parts of the country with the aid of machines that greatly increase the effi efficiency clency of the men employed Is still largely done by hand in other parts machinery for roost most of the work in connection with preparing and tilling the soil goll Is available in many sizes and frequently two or more outfits cadi requiring the time of one man are seen working in the same field on operations erat ions for which implements of two or three times the size of those used could be employed with lust just as satisfactory results there are few farm horses which a driver of ordinary I 1 intelligence n telli gence cannot train to work in large teams in a few days time and most of the larger implements are little it if any more complicated or difficult to handle than the small ones for the same work installation of machinery where the farm Is large and it Is vot not possible sible to procure sufficient labor it t will certainly be more profitable as well us as patriotic to install machinery which will enable the operator to plant cultivate and harvest a full acreage of the crops best suited to his land and the needs of the country than to let some of the land lie idle or at best have it prepared and worked poorly and the crops out of season in many cases a worker can double the work done by the use of a larger implement and a correspondingly greater amount of motive power and sometimes the gain Is considerably more than this if the nature of the work and the machinery for doing it are such that the best implements will increase the efficiency of the worker by only GO 50 or even 25 per cent their use may make possible an increase in acreage by just that amount and at least will enable the farmer to do hla his work in less time and allow hint him to take advantage of good weather it if the season Is unfavorable buy larger machinery can all farmers afford to buy extra horses and larger implements to save man labor of course those whose farms require but one or two horses to do the ordinary work can seldom afford to do so but such can secure this additional help by combining to purchase larger machinery a and nd doubling up their teams to operate it or one usually more skilled in operating machinery or better able to purchase it may own the larger implements and do the work for several neighbor farmers besides his own to the advantage of all concerned both these methods have been tried out in many localities with mowers harvesters tractors threshing machines and other farm machinery |