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showed us photos of the Twin City and con
yinced us that this was the case. He also
showed us a telegram from Cuba changing
an order Tor Big Four 80 Engines into one
for Twin City Machines.
These Engines are made by the Steel and
Machinery Go. of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mr. Won Mo;z teIegraphed for us to Mine
apolis to find if we could see the Engines MT
work there, but the reply came through that
the soil WAS frozen aud n demonstration
therefore impossible. Mr.. Won Motz told Us
that had we arrived three weeks earlier we
could have seen nearly al the ploughs mad"
III America competing at n contest III the
neiehbourhood of Moline, We should Xix
to say here that had DR.. Longfeld Smiths
original plan of going to New York by tho
steamer sailing October 9th been carried out
it would have been possible TO see much
more ana the original sum Of money asked
for would probably have been sufficient.
Mr.. Won Motz had been in Cuba and had
travelled III many parts of the world for the
firm OF John Deere q Co. and he had com
pared Steam Cable Traction with Gasolene
direct Traction Eng mes and he was strongly
IN favour Of the direct Traction gaeolene en-
gInc, which he saws is displaclug steam Cable
on tits The advantages of the direct Trac-
ton 9aSolene Engine were, he said, On less
initial cost y less running cost, (3) more
uniform ~ploughng
MIR. Won Motz told rs that if the Govern
ment Of st. CfoiX decided to purchase Il
Twin City gasoline Tractor he would be able
to make arrangements for Mr.. Bernson in
Cuba or some other engineer to set the mn
chine up IN st. Croix and train a man to
run 1t and that probably no extra charge
woult be rnnte for this beyond the EHgi-
neer's board while in st. Cr0iX.
Mr.. Won Motz advised US to 90 to Texas,
where We should see the s,ifest g~asolene
pIonGhlng done III the whole of the United
States AS funds were too low to enable
both of us to do this we decided to sepnr-
ate, Mr.. Skeoch going to New York and DR..
Longheld smith going to Texns. Mr.. Won
Motz telegraphed to Texas and found TINT
the Twin City Engines were engaged in
pIou8hing there. At Moline we were much
impressed with the pIoughs and other aSri-
cuttura! machinery made by the John D,ore
Co. We were shown several ploughs at
work. One of these, the John Deere Sag
Sulky deep tlIlage plough, we saw tilliug II
inches deep. This plough was drawn by
four large draft horses. The peculiar feature
Of the plough is that owing to the p~culiur
shape OF the mould board it does not turn
the subsoil, but only the soil. We should
like to see one of these plough4 tried locally
at the Experiment Station, but should be
afraid to use them for extensive planting
till they had been thoroughly tested expert
mentally.
Dr. Lon9field- Smith left Moline on Sntur-
day, November 9th, and arrived at Kansas
City at $50 the following morning.
He left Kansas at 5 30 pm. and arrived
at San Antonio, Texas, the following day ut
$50 pm He left San Antonio at 2.20 pm.
the following day and arrived at Gregory at
SO pm. The following morning, he went
by automobile to the plough camp on the
ranch of Chas. ?. Taft. He saw four of the
Twin City Engines at work there doing
wonderful work in a soil said to be the
toughest III the United States. A specimen
of the soil was secured to show the Planters
Of Santa Crnz. The ranch owned by Chas.
z. Taft is about $50, 900 acres in extent and
it was originally entirely covered with Mes
quit trees. The soil is SO stiff, and the roots
of the Mesquit trees are 50 tough and in
terlock so together, spreading through the
surface soil, that the bringing of the land
into cultivation was an extremely difficult
proposition aud vas only solved tho
roughly by the use of the Twin City
gasolene tractors. These machines are now