The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-05

ONO, New England states, Michigan
South Dakota, Kansas Nebraska
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma
The work of distribution is al.
ready under way, and the stipulation
with each sale is that the purchaser
will keep the machine working stead.
lily.
BY steadily" the Ford company
means that when farmer shall have
finished his own work that he shall
turn in and help out his neighbors
or do any other necessary work to-
wards the cultivation, or transporta-
ton of crops.
One instance of the effectiveness
of the weapon is shown in a letter
that has come into the Dearborn
plant from farmer in Huron
county, Michigan.
81 had finished my work and was
driving the tractor down the road
when l came to a place where two
graders, with six teams, were toll
ing" wrote the farmer.
II went up to the foreman on the
job and asked him to let me try the
tractor.
Cant be DONE he said.
'Why?'"
It's hard enough for these
horses, let along trying that contriv-
ance'
But can do the work, just fin
ished ploughing some of my own
fields, and didn't have any
trouble..'"
"'Yah-I know. But this is diff
ferent.'
81 kept insisting and at noon hour,
when the men knocked off for their
lunch, secured thief oreman's per-
mission to hitch the tractor to one
of the graders and start to work.
Talk about machine working!
Say
THAT foreman and those fellows
with the teams opened their eyes.
had to laugh. The tractor, putting
along, kept going right thru the aft
.ernoon. The foreman was so sur
prised that he could not believe that
he was really awake. He insisted
that keep going. l did.
when he came to look at what
we had accomplished, along about
o'clock, we discovered that the trac-
tor had graded approximately 500
square feet more than had the two
graders, with their six teams.
"The men with the teams were dis
charged"
1t isn't hard to get one of the real
ideas to this. There isn't any ques-
ton but that the tractor did the
work better, and cheaper, than the
horses could have done it. There
was less labor to pay and more was
accomplished. That means that the
farmers in this district had CHEAPER
taxes, and in war time this means
much. For we must give to the
government that the Hun be beaten,
at the expense of all else.
The improved road means quicker
transportation for the crops in the
fall and the illustration serves to
show of another use for the tractor
Reports on file at the plant snow |
that in Ohio, where it is planned to
have 1000 tractors at work before !
long, that there has been a grea'
increase in cultivated acreage Land |
that under the conditions of few
years ago. could not be worked by |
horses, has come under the turn of !
the tractor wheels. 1t has also been |
proved that land titled by the tractor
produces an average of twenty-five
more bushels of grain to an acre than
the ordinary method.
This, of itself, is of tremendous
hn NJ |
might cost more to operate than a
team of horses, which it doesn't.
Crops are the things which the
nation needs. 1t needs them in
bountiful measure for the mainten-
ance of the starving nations of
Europe.
I'm turning over the soil the Ford
son tractor does it in more complete
fashion than any team, or teams,
nave ever seen," writes an Ohio
'armer.
81 can get into places that would
)e inaccessible for horses"
This is true of hundreds of others
If Ohio farmers. And the increased
lcreage titled, due to the tractor, is
pound to produce millions of extra
bushels of grain.
The Michigan agricultural college,
n recommending the use of the trac-
or, points out that it does not eat
Up feeds, as do horses and mules.
Feeds are very essential now, it goes
saying. Corn, oats and other
,rains can be made up into foods for
human consumption. The tractor
ives an gasoline and oil--two things
We have plenty of, and which we
annot eat.
1t is also pointed out in state agri-
ultural bulletins that the ira ctor |