Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-10-13
Modern Farming Requires Wide
Knowledge of Machinery
From the Country Gentleman.

From the Country Gentleman.
The American farmer leads the world
a crop production. Yields per acre may
be larger than his in countries where
land is dear and human labor is cheap,
but in the United States the yield per
nan engaged in farming is greater than
anywhere else on earth.
This is due to lab%or-saving machinery.
The American farm without machinery
Tould he acknowledgements Most
ef the modern farm appliances have been
developed in he United States to meet
sur needs, and to farm machinery we
1--WE big crops, low production cost and
! hig standard of farm living. These
Kings being SO, the American farm is
more or less a machine shop, and the
American farmer something of a ma
:hinist.
Modern Farm is a Machine Shop.
At the same time there is much room
or Improvement in the machinery part
VI farming. The farm is a machine shop
"a factory for the production of crops
W power. But it's implements and tools
re not selected with so much care and
oresight as the equipment of other shops
md factories. The farmer has to be a
nachinist to farm at all. But he does
lot get so much profitable work out of
is machinery as he should
For instance, it is spraying time in n
u6 lIQtt OICldTu, DuI rain ana WlnQ
ave stolen precious days. Finally the
Teather brightens and three crews hurry
tmong the trees. applying the white mist
hat means clean fruit and good prices
iext fall-probably the crop itself. No
>ody knows how long the good weather
sill last. Every hour is golden. Before
hoon two of the spraying machines are
,ut 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 the circumstances. but two of them
IRE idle. waiting for repair parts.
Those three sprayers are of different
makes and styles though all do the same
kind Of work. aid there is no reason why
they should not be alike. If they were
parts would be interchangeable, and at
eas, two could be kept going.
Don't Buy Second Hand Machinery.
Or II 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 h he bid il in for $19 that
binder looked like a bargain. But
breaks when minutes are
worth dollars. and then it is discovered
that the machine, while fairly new and
OF good make, is one for which repair
parts can be obtained only by mail, from
q city TWO days away.
There is SO much room for economy and
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stead OF haphaxard buying OF this imple-
ment and that tool, that arner and
manufacturers are beginning to work for
better standards. And yet when they take
up this problem together they find that
have q great deal in common. and
that each must help the other to bring
about better conditions.
The farmer is discovering tha uniform
fty and interchangeability help to keep
his euuiOment going deapite miShapS IN
the field. The manufacturer finds that
Standardization means economy in produce
ton and In sales. and solves some of the
most difficult problems Of his business.
The farmer wants service from machin-
cry. He is learning that It pays to buy
from the local implement deal
or who carries ample stocks of repair
parts, and who works ~intelligently with
him to keep each implement going in the
field. The manufacturer inds that the
closer he can link the farmer and the
he is able to render all along the line, and
the less the burden to be carried in stocks
Of repair parts.
Take Care Of Farm Machinery.
The. farmer 10 learning to take care of
and to use 1t to the best adj
SO he can get out of each imple-
ment all h profitable life the manufac-
urer built into 1t. The manufactures
wants hin to get all that profitable life.
This Is contrary to general belief, for most
persons assume hat the manufacturer
to see farm machinery left to rust
fence corners, 30 he can sell more. The
manufacturer wants to sell new machine
cry. to be sure. But he has a long head,
and knows that II Zach implement gives
long service. then production costs viii be