The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-07-05


no on Particular Farm.
set aside that will give q convenient
location for additional buildings to
house any of the activities Of tho
farm.
"(s) The buildings most necessary
OF access from the kitchen are located
close to it in convenient order and
connected by a protected passage. AL
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 145 tractor owners in Illinois,
which are analysed in Farmers Bull
letin 719. IAN Economic Study Of tn;
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 GOV.
cred by horse-drawn plow. 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 a tractor should cover an.
proximately three acres in an ordi.
nary working day Of ten hours, as the
average blowing speed is slightly moro
than two miles per hour. This will
hold true in actual practice when the
blowing conditions are favorable, pro
vided the outfit does not give trouble
That is, a two-plow machine should
plow six acres and a ten-plow outfit
30 acres per day, provided both travel
at the average rate Of speed and are
kept moving. However, under condi-
lions where trash is to be turned un.
der and frequently clogs the plows,
or where other distractions cause de-
lays on account of the plows, each
plow drawn by a large tractor will
cover much less ground in q 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 plow on a two
plow outfit stops only one other plow.
while on a ten-plow rig, for example.
1t stops nine other plows. To Illus
trate, supposing a man operating 4
two-plow tractor was compelled to
stop ten times during a day for each
ploW, in order to clear it of trash, and
spent three minutes each time (which
would not be Unusually; the loss Of
time during the day would amount to
a half-hour for each plow, or one hour
total loss. Each plow would have done
almost as much work as in blowing
continuously. On the other hand. a
man operating ten-plow tractor IN
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 plow, or a total
loss OF several hours during the day.
In view of these facts it 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 Ag.
ures showing the average acreage
covered by differentiated outfits N
Illinois, as recorded by farmers, which
indicate what should be expected IN.
der average corn-belt conditions,
where there is more or less material
to be turned under. It will be noticed
that the decrease in the acreage per
pillow Is somewhat Irregular. This is
due to the fact that in some of the
groups certain makes predominant,
and the average acreage covered cor
responds with the speeds of these out
fits; that is, where most Of the trac.
tors travel at comparatively high
speeds the acreage covered per pillow
is high, and vice versa.
Another influencing factor is that in
some of the groups figures have been
included for machines which the own
ers are requiring to pull one more
plow than should be demanded OF
them, and which do not cover as much
ground as should be covered by u ira,
chine in the same group which Is pull.
ing a normal load. 1t does not pay to
overload a tractor any more than It
does to overload a horse.
Average acres covered per cay and
per pillow by the several-sfzed outfits
working under Illinois corn.belt con.
ditions GAS reports):
Acres COW Acres GOV.
cred per cred per
net day Of day per
- hcuru, blow.
Size Of Tractor.
c-plov OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81 81
3-pLJW. ........................ SO 81
4-p10W. 104 26