Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-09-06

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w IL Nj bile he does to circus Old
Ill Dobbins of the buggy has long
III been smothered by the
u exhaust from the four-cylinder
j lCR. \ gas vehicles and he is be-
n lI\NLA, ing ousted from his old and
n arduous vocation of blowing
q N ~ and harvesting. If it We're not
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NJ would have survive on the
" husks- Farming has ever been
attractive to the city chap, and it has always
been extremely toiIsome the native. But now,
with the aid of mechanical hired hands, farming
in the will be mere joy-riding. Instead
of following a team of painting, perspring horses
and stumbling rough clods in the broll1ng
while trying to keep under control pillow
whose dabolical disposition is to twist and turn
from the straight and even furrow, Mr. Farmer
can put on his automobile goggles and gloves,
seat himself comfortably in the spring seat of a
tractor, and under a canvas canopy that stunts
away the guide his obeHent steel steed
the fields. In the springtime the blowing
be done to the music of the birds. who gath
er around to watch for the luckless but luscious
worms turned up by the blades. BY of
the wheel battery of disk plows can be made
10 obey orders like soldiers
When the blowing is done. the mechanical
hired man will cheerfully pull harrow
seeding machine, and stops need be made in
the shade to allow the "critter' to blow A
tractor loves to work and all it asks in return is
that its stomach be kept full of the spirits that
enthuse but do not intoXicate.
During the dinner hour, if the farmer follows
his efficiency book faithfully, he Will connect up
his tractor engine with the pump and fill the
water reservoir perhaps he will turn the
ehurn for mother. After long pull at the cider
barrel and the distillate tank both master and
servant are ready to resume operations
As the seasons merge one into another. and
the crops all planted and growing under the
genial smiles of Old Sol and the sympathetic min
tstrations of Jupiter Pluvius. Mr.. Farmer. with
nothing to do but watch his grain grow
drive his tractor over to the neighboring wood
lot. and with the help of his husky sons, his
neighbours stalwart sons. cut enough cord
wood to defy the advance and siege of Jack
Frost. The modern tractor loves to be tied
buzz and 1T sings right merriy while doing
its work When the wood is cut. the obliging
tractor will haul it to the woodshed, and then,
Ike the famous man of history. will look for new
work TO conquer
The overwhelming advantage of the tractor
over horses is that of power and endurance. II
the supply tank of of these machines is kept
full of fuel it will work indefinitely without
rest, whereas beasts of burden demand time to
eat and sleep and rest. Then. too. it is much
easier on the farmer sit seat and pillow
by turning a wheel than to follow the burrows on
foot. Consequently. the farmer with a tractor
Will do all his blowing in from fourth to a half
of the time required with horses BY equippng the
machines with electric lights, generated by the
motor. the surrounding ground can be made as
light day. and blowing can go on independent
of the Poor Dohhins would give up the
ghost If subjected to such treatment.
The superiority the tractor is also demon
strated by the ability to get ground soft
and muddy that ordinary horses and farm
pfements would mire in The modern ball-tread
tractor is built to run n-ts own track. Being
wide and fat with the weight of the machine
evenly distributed this caterpillar type of per
ambulator can navigate through a sea OF mud. and
by its great traction power can pull anything
except teeth. In the rice fields of California
where water stands upon the ground during all
1he growing season. the tractor is found to be
the only feasible means of getting over the fields
for blowing seeding. cutting and harvesting the
crop. 1t even furnishes the motive power for
thrashing the rice.
If the road in front of the farm is rough and
needs the smoothing influence of the tractor 1t
will the Job and do it right. If the hens have
been Industrious bossy's product has been
converted into golden butter or cheese for the
city folks. Mr.. Farmer haul them to market
by hitching trailer behind his tractor Many
of the machines bought for their hauling abil-
ify alone 1t will take the folks to church
Sunday. if the jitney happens to break down
On Saturday night
In fact, the tractor is versatile as a movie
star and II doesn't mind showing or Its diverse
talents One has even been known to rid a cellar
Of rodents by coughing the gas from its exhaust
through rubber tube into the private DWELL
1ng of Mr. Kat
The development Of the tractor Is q matter Of