American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1915-10-09

Henry Ford has been working for
some years and IL still working on
farm tractor"
lie has given to the citizens u mar
vellously efficient machine to take
them over the roads.
Now he proposes to give the farm
ers something that will take the place
Of the horse In farm work. as his car
already takes the place Of the horse
Ia road work.
His machine will sell at a low price
about three hundred dollars. We
are glad to give TO our readers some
idea Of Fords plans for new public
service.
The machine has been kept a secret,
experiments being made privately,
with the taking of moving pictures for
Mr.. Forus exclusive use that he might
see for himself just how the machine
works and its defects, If any
At the suggestion of Thomas A.
Edison, Mr.. Ford sent by a speciai
messenger from Detroit that wonder
fully interesting moving picture. to be
seen only by the editor of this news
paper and by CORTLAND Smith. presi-
dent of the American Press Associa-
ton.
The exhibition lasted long time,
for the film displayed every possible
kind OF farm work.
II moving picture geniuses could get
Henry Ford to let them have the, pic
ture TO be shown In agricultural re-
gions. they would pack with farmers
every theatre where the film might
be shown.
The machine IL small. extremely
powerful.
First you see Il pulling double
disc harrow cutting up the rough
earth left by the plow
An old man with white beard 10
driving the wonderful little machine
rapidly pulling the harrow.
Then you see the sme machine and
the same old man driving II. Behind
the machine there Is n gang pillow, ana
Henry Ford himself, standing up
straight on the platform OF the gang
pillow, il working the plowshares. at
tending to the shifting around corners
and other management.
After the exhibition Of the harrow
and the plow comes cultivating the
corn. You see the machine with n
cultivator behind II. and only one
man operating machine and cultivat-
or, going through the cornfield.
Then later you see the same machine
with the wheels changed to high
wheels going through the corn when
II Is knee high. This change OF wheels
makes Il possible to cultivate corn
so high that n team could not safely
10 through II.
You see this same wonderful little
engine pulling a gigantic load such as
would take ut least three teams OF
horses to pull. The load is 80 heavy
that while the moving picture is work
ing one of the great wheels of the
truck breaks and drops the load, The
little machine has been pulling a
load 30 heavy that huge wheel and
iron axle go down under II.
Mr. Ford plans to arrange this ma
chine so that II can be used to do
stationary farm work as well as maui
ing machinery. II will saw wood,
thresh grain. shred cornstalks ana
blow the shreds into the top OF the
siio, and do any other stationary-en-
CINE work.
Providence works mysteriously, and
Henry Ford Is certainly part OF the
works" We are told that In war
time. when 80 many men are killed.
great many BOY babies are born.
Now In this wartime. when hundred
OF thousands OF horses are killed,
Henry Ford presents TO the world a
machine that will make the horse al
most as extinct as the dodo.