The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-14
the Country Gentleman.

The American farmer leads the world
n crop production. Yields per acre may
pc larger h his in countries where
n is dear and human labor is cheap,
eut IN the United States the yield per
a engaged In farming is greater than
anywhere else on earth.
rms is due to labor-saying machinery.
The American farm without machinery
would be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Most
81 lne modern farm appliances have been
developed In the United States to meet
our needs, and to farm machinery we
owe big crops, low production cost and
I nigh standard of farm living. These
lhlngs being SO, the American farm is
more or less a machine shop, and the
American farmer something of a ma
chinist.
Modern Farm Is a Machine Shop.
At the same time there is much room
for improvement In the machinery part
OF farming. The farm is a machine shop
"a factory for the production of crops
by power. But it's implements n tools
are not selected with so much care and
foresight as the equipment of other shops
and factories. The farmer has to be a
machinist to farm at all. But he does
not get SO much profitable work out OF
his machinery as he should.
For instance, it is spraying time in a
big fruit orchard. but rain and wind
nave stolen precious days. Finally the
weather %brightens and three crews hurry
among the trees. applying the white mist
that means clean fruit and good prices
next fall-probably the crop itself. No
body knows how long the good weather
will last. Every hour is golden. Before
noon two of the spraying machines are
out OF commission. Something on the
pump breaks in one case; something on
the engine In the other. Three sprayers
going full blast are none too many un-
der tie circumstances, but two Of them
arc idle, waiting for repair parts.
Those three sprayers are OF different
makes and styles, though all do the same
kind of work, and there is no reason why
they should not be alike, If they were
parts would be interchangeable, and at
least two could be kept going.
Don't Buy Second Hand Machinery.
Or it is time to harvest grain, and the
farmer gets into the field early with the
binder that he picked UP last fall at an
auction. When he bid it in for S19 that
binder looked like a bargain. But
something breaks when minutes are
worth dollars, and then it is DISCOVERIES
thai the machine, while fairly new and
of good make, is one for which repai,
parts can be obtained only by mail, from
a city two days away.
There Is so much room for economy ant
efficiency IN real equipment of farms, in.
stead of haphazard buying of this nipple.
ment and that tool, hat farmers and
manufacturers are beginning to work fol-
better standards. And yet when they take
UP this problem together they find tina,
they have a great deal in ommon ant
that Zach must help the other to bring
about better conditions.
The farmer is discovering that uniform,
lty and interchangeability help to keeI
his equipment going despite mishaps il
the field. The manufacturer finds tina
standardization means economy in produc
ton and in sales, and solves some of thu
most difficult problems of his business.
The farmer wants service from machin
cry. He is learning that it pays to blu,
equipment from the local. implement deal
er who carries ample stocks of repai
parts, and who works intelligently will
him to keep each implement going in tn,
field. The manufacturer inds that TIL
closer he can link the farmer and tn,
dealer In organization, the better servic
he is able to render all along the line, an,
the less the burden to be carried in stock
Of repair parts.
Tako Care Of Farm Machinery.
The farmer is learning to take care o
machinery, and to use it to the best ad
vantage, SO he can get out of each nipple
ment all the profitable life the manufac
urer built into it. The manufacture
wants him to get all that profitable life
This is contrary to general belief, for mos
persons assume that the manufacture
likes to see farm machinery left to rus
in fence corners, so he can sell more. Th
manufacturer wants to sell new machin
cry, to be sure. But he has a long heaG
and knows that if each implement give
long service, then production costs will b