The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-11-12

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assa aheryFcF horses can ~. ADD
wbere larEe afeas are 10 b. tilted II
promises 10 srBa tbs horse Info total
eclipse,
Thins u plowlng up about thiriy
arrrs ~ single leisurciy daf with
une u'afhinc, dlsking q xwath twenly
six icei vide a. the rate " thrive
linear miles an huur, hauling 80 hush
els " whcat 70 market IA ane tgip
and ycn have an idea q The rev nn.
tor and What Il via actually aecoAl.
rlish under condltisss none ice favor
able safs ~ rranris correspondent
of the Ksnsas city star, Then con.
neirc - dolng this ploMlug IN the VIC.
gln prairie AZ shout 50 cents mn acfe
and haulln: that amount ~ whea,
thirteen miles TO market for $40.
counting the return trip Then you
have even clearer Impression
The farm motor Is Just . big heavy,
awkward looking motor ear. built fur
hard. heavy work II Is the embodl
ment Of all the principles ~ the motor
car seen on the streets every DAY, es-
cept that Il produces strength where
the other develops speed In front II
the hig radiator cooling the four cyl
inders The drive wheels are big steel
affairs with tires eighteen inches wide,
studded With sharp conical spikes for
taking hold OF the ground Gasoline
furnishes the motive power, aud one
man can operate II With It's plows,
disks or harrows. hitched behind
without the slightest trouble
In Cheyenne county two big farmers
are using the motor with satisfaction
They are Jerry Lyons, whose farm OF
1900 acres is seven miles from 81
Francis. and g. w. Denny. whose
$500 acre farm Is thirteen miles dis
tant from the town Recently both
places were visited On The Denny
farm the motor was busy dlsking Il
big field which had been broken last
spring, Hitched behind the big, lum
herring car were three sets Of disks,
two four horse and one eight horse
affairs.
Moving along at steady pace OF
about three miles an hour, the ma
chine dragged the disks over lateral
area OF twenty.slx feet with as much
ease as though putting along a rond,
pIllng the once broken soil along In lit.
tie burrows, ready for narrowing and
the seed The field was mile long
and about 500 feet wide, so that AT the
longest circuit OF the field the machine
was dlsking about eight acres OF
ground. The circuit took about an
hour As geared up for work the
motor weighed six tons. A steam en-
CINE Of the same kind and power
would weigh three times as much.
H. @. Denny, son OF the farms own.
er, speaking of the disking, said:
When We get done with this we win
cross disk H. but when We do that we VIII
hitch thirty feet of harrows behind and
do the narrowing as we disk. We can
pull the three disks and the barrows at
the Same time. Then we VIII hitch on
three drills and drill II 10 wheat. We are
working along the Campbell system OF
farming dry farming they sometimes call
H.
G. W. Denny, the owner who came
TO Kansas from Nebraska. where he
had tried the same kind OF farming,
said:
believe the motor Is proving great
success | always have been looking Tor
the time when we could farm with less
expense. To break the prairie with hired
teams costs 81 an acre. With the motor
we use about two gallons OF gasoline TO
that amount OF ground at cost of 16
cents gallon. / expect even TO cut and
thrash by gasoline power. and | know we
can haul the wheat to market with this
motor. | shall get two 800 bushel tanks
and mount them on wheels. These | can
pull over the level roads out here to town
and back for 80 or SO believe in a few
years these motors will be very common
The fact that they will save from one
half to three fourths the expense means
n great deal In dollars and cents when the
magnitude OF these western farms Is con-
sidered
At the Lyons farm the owner was
blowing with eight moldboard plows
hitched to the back OF the motor. In
discussing his farm motor he said
What we have always wanted is more
crop at less expense. The motor Is going
10 help us gain that end II has been
used In Dakota a little. and | am told
ihey broke ground for 6 cents an acre
afI, when