The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-30


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 U husks Farming has ever been attractive to the city chap, and 1t has always been extremely toilsome to the native. But now. with the aid of mechanical hired hands farming fin the future will be mere joy-riding. Instead of following a team of panting. perspiring horses and stumbling rough clods in the brong while trying to keep under control blow whose diabolical disposition is to twist and turn from the straight and even furrow, Mir. Farmer can put hs automobile goggles and gloves. seat himself comfortably in the spring seat of a tractor. and under canvas canopy that shunts away the sun, guide his obedent steel steed across the fields. In the springtime the blowing can be done to the music of the birds who gath around to watch for the luckess but luscious worms turned up by the blades By one turn of the wheel battery of disk blows can be made to obey orders like soldiers.
 When the blowing is done. the mechanical hired man will as cheerfully pull harrow a seeding machine and stops need be made in the shade to allow the "crtter" to blow. tractor loves to work and all It asks in return is that It's 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, or perhaps he will turn the churn for mother. After long pull at the cider barrel and the distillate tank, both master and servant ready to 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 istratfons of Jupiter Pluvius, MT Farmer, with nothing to do but watch his grain grow. drive his tractor to the neighboring wood lot, and with the help of his husky or his neighbours stalwart sons, cut enough cord advance O Frost. The modern tractor loves to be tied to buzz saw, and it sings right merrily while doing it's work. When the wood is cut the obliging tractor will haul it to the woodshed and then like the famous man of history, will look for new work to conquer.
 The overwhelming advantage of the tractor horses is that of power and endurance If the supply tank of one of these machines is kept full of fuel 1t will work indefinitely without rest whereas beasts of burden demand time to eat and sleep and rest. Then too, it is much easier the farmer to sit on seat and blow by turning wheel than to follow the furrows on foot. Consequently, the farmer with tractor will do all his blowing in from a fourth to half of the time required with horses. By equpping the machines with electric lights, generated by the motor the surrounding ground be made as light as day and blowing can go on independent of the sun. Poor Dobbins would give up the ghost if subjected to such treatment.
 The superiority of the tractor Is also demon
 
 and muddy that ordinary horses and farm i'm plements would mire in. The modern ball-tread tractor Is built to its own track. Being wide and fiat with the weight of the machine evenly distributed. this caterpillar type of per ambulat0r can navigate through 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 the 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 It even furnishes the motive power for thrashing the rice.
 if the road in front of the farm Is rough and seeds the smoothing Influence of the tractor IL will do the Job and do 1t right. If the hens have been industrious, bossy's product has been converted into golden butter cheese for the city folks Mfr. Farme, haul them to market by hitching a trailer behind his tractor Many of the machines are bought for their hauling abil ity alone. It will take the folks to church on Sunday If the Jitney happens to break down on Saturday night.
 In fact the tractor is versatile movie star and it doesn't mind showing of its diverse talents One has even been known to rid cellar of rodents by coughing the gas from It's exhaust through a rubber tube run into the private dwell- ane of Ar. Hat ..s--,~..e..4. ..
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