The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-29

,ns on a Particular Farm.
| set aside that will give a convenient
location for additional buildings to
house any of the activities Of the
farm.
| "(9) 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 145 tractor owners in Illinois,
which are analysed in Farmers Bull
letin 719, can Economic Study of the
Farm Tractor in the Corn Belt"
The amount Of land covered per day
| by pillow drawn by tractor Is usu-
ally slightly greater than that COW
| cred by horse-drawn pillow. The acre
age covered by two different ma
1
| of plows, often varies considerably be-
cause they travel at different speeds.
Theoretically a 14-inch pillow when
| drawn by a 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 outfit does not give trouble.
That is, a two-plow machine should
plow six acres and ten-plow outfit
80 acres per day, provided both travel
at the average rate Of speed and are
kept moving. However, under condi-
| tions 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 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 two
plow outfit stops only one other pillow,
while on a ten-plow rig, for example,
| it stops nine other plows. To Illus
trate, supposing a man operating a
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 unusual; 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 a ten-plow tractor I'M
| der the same conditions would in all
probability have to clear each pillow
the same number of times, in proper.
ton to acreage covered, losing nearly
half an hour for each plow, or 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
| pillow as do the smaller ones.
In the appended table are some fig
ures showing the average acreage
covered by differentiated outfits in
| Illinois, as recorded by farmers, which
| indicate what should be expected un-
| der average corn-belt conditions,
where there is more or less material
to be turned under. 1t will be noticed
that the decrease in the acreage per
plow 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 plow
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
pillow than should be demanded Of
| them, and which do not cover as much
ground as should be covered by ma
chine in the same group which is pull
| ing normal load. 1t does not pay to
| overload tractor any more than it
does to overload a horse.
Average acres covered per day and
per pillow by the several-sized outfits
working under Illinois corn-belt con-
ditions (145 reportsG
Acres COW Acres COW
cred per cred per
net day Of day per
10 hours. plow.