The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-19

to work. What he says is convincing becs
Has the Cast Tractor come to stay?
To this I say yes. This is the ques-
ton being discussed on every hand,
and why?
This same question has been asked
about every machine that has been
invented,-the pillow, reaper, thresh-
err, locomotive, steamboat, steam en-
CINE, bicycle , automobile, and now
the tractor. All of these machines
have outlived their criticism and
proved their worth. Why not the gas
tractor?
The reaper was retarded by incom-
petent operators. and laborers re-
fused to work for the farmer who
owned one; the thresher did not save
the grain; the locomotive was dan
gerous and travelled too fast.
The citizens of the New England
states once petitiOned congress to
pass a law to prohibit a railroad train
from travelling to exceed seven miles
per hour. Laws were enacted to pro-
hibit steamboats, being operated on
canals, owing to the fact that they
made large waves and washed away
the bank. The steam tractors
scared the horses and set fires;
the bicycle also scared horses and was
prohibited from the highway; the au-
tomobile equally so, and laws were
enacted that retarded the progress of
these articles SO years.
Ignorance Always Bar to Progress
gress. The writer once solicited for a ru-
raj telephone line; the line was to cost the
farmers $50 each for it's construction and
question they asked was: Where will we
get our money back? ?" but after the line
was In operation for a few months, it
its cost.
The manufacturers Of our country have
long since turned to some means Of me-
chanical power, and are on the alert at
duction.
The successful farmer of the future will
ciples. He must be wide-awake and alert
to the best methods to employ, to reduce
the cost Of production; -
OF prime movers soon displaced horse and
human power in the field of mechanical
engineering and general manufacturing q.
preme In the Oldest and most important in
dustry of neutrality-suspicious..
In most countries it is the horse, ass or
OK that is used for drawing the ploughs
and other machines utilized for tilling the
soil. In India and parts of Africa the ele-
plant is used, in Asia the camel furnishes
power. Domesticated buffalo, reindeer or
dogs serve as motive power in other To-
%calities. while the pioneer Doukhabor far
mer of Canada, when too poor to purchase
horseflesh, harnessed ten or twelve women
soil ~ 4hot snon ra ~ him n ~ ~ nhsi'
agriculture BASIS OF prosperity.
Agriculture is the basis Of any country's
prosperity. 1t is the most important oc-
cupation of many nations. because it fur
nishes the majority Of the food stuffs that
sustain life. it is more important that the
cost of producing the food Of man be re.
duced than that of any other thing. II
takes good food and plenty of it to con
serve human and animal life and efficiency
Just as mechanical power increased pro.
duction and reduced cost of our manufac.
tured products, to such an extent that the
luXuries of kings of but a century agt
are available to the poorest workman OF
today. 50 it's general application to the
farmers work will increase the productive
ness of his fields. 1t will give him NOR,
time for the intelligent direction of his ac.
~tivitics by reducing the daily grind of in
cessant toll heretofore his lot, and increase
hic wanltb and nur,bov;nr ON. aud .b,.