The Arvada enterprise., 1916-06-29

set aside that will give convenient
location for additional buildings to
house any OF the activities Of the
farm.
go The buildings most necessary
Of access from the kitchen are located
close to it in convenient order and
connected by protected passage. At
the same time they may readily be
reached from the other parts of the
farm"
Work Done by Tractors.
The following information as to the
work done per day by different sizes
of farm tractors is based upon reports
from las tractor owners in Illinois,
which are analysed in Farmers Bull
letin 7l9, An Economic Study of the
Farm Tractor in the Corn Belt"
The amount of land covered per day
by pillow drawn by a tractor is usu-
ally slightly greater than that coy
cred by horse-drawn pillow. The acre
age covered by two different ma
chimes, each pulling the same number
of plows, often varies considerably be-
cause they travel at different speeds.
Theoretically 14-inch plow when
drawn by tractor should cover ap-
proXimately three acres in an ordi
nary working day of ten hours, as the
average blowing speed is slightly more
than two miles per hour This will
hold true in actual practice when the
blowing conditions are favorable, pro-
vided the outht does not give trouble
That Is, a two-plow machine should
pillow six ACRES and a ten.plow outfit
80 acres per day. provided both travel
at the average rate of speed and are
kept moving. However, under condi-
tons where trash is to be turned UNI
der and frequently clogs the plows.
or where other distractions cause de-
lays on account of the plows. each
plow drawn by large tractor will
cover much less ground in a day than
one drawn by small outfit, because
the delays will naturally be in proper.
ton to the number OF plows pulled A
delay on account OF one pillow on a two
plow outht stops only one other plow.
while on ten-plow rig. for example,
II stops nine other plows. To Illus.
trate. supposing man operating
twoplOw tractor was compelled to
stop ten times during a day for each
plow. In order to clear II of trash, and
spent three minutes each time (which
would not be Unusually tie loss of
time during the day would amount to
hnlf'hour for each pillow. or one hour
total loss. Each pillow would have done
| almost ms much work as In blowing
continuously. On the other hand, q
man operating n ten.plow tractor un.
der the same conditions would In all
probability have to clear each plow
the same number OF times, in proper
ton to acreage covered. losing nearly
half an hour for each pillow, or u total
loss OF several hours during the day
In view OF these facts II is apparent
| that when blowing under unfavorable
conditions large gang plows do not
| cover as much ground per day per
plow as do the smaller ones.
In the appended table are some fig
urcs showing the average acreage
| covered by diforcut.sizcd outfits In
| Illinois, as recorded by farmers, which
| indicate what should be expected un
der average Corn.holt conditions,
whore there IL more or less material
To be turned under. !, will be noticed
that the decrease in the acreage per
plow is somewhat irregular. This il
duo TO the fact that In some OF the
groups certain makes predominant.
and III" average acreage covered cor.
responds with tho speeds Of those out.
ITS; that IL. where most Of tho .rac.
tors trav" NJ comparatively high
speeds the acreage covered per pillow
Is high, and vice versa
Another influencing factor IL that In
some OF the groups figures have been
included for machines which the own.
"rs are requiring to pun one more
plow than should he demanded OF
them. and which do not cover as much
ground as should be covered by a mn.
chine In the same group which In pull
Ing normal l0uG. II does not pay to
overload n tfactor any moro than II
does to overload n horse,
Average acros covered per day and
per plOw by tho soycralslzoi outfits
working nler Illinois corn bel, con.
dltions liJ reports:
Acres GOV. Acres coy.