Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-03-21
FARM MANAGEMENT
Present Farm Labor.Savinp
Possibilities

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of farm machinery, by multi
plying the efficiency of tn
individual machines by usine
them in combination and by in
creasing their capacity withou
an increase in manual labor.
The next greatest is the ar
rangenent of the farm work,
will illustrate how, by the proper
use of farm machinery, one maj
may be dispensed with. Let US
take, for instance, the use of
such tools or implements as the
shovel, pitchfork, pick and hoe
Keeping these in good condition
increases the efficiency of q
mans work by ten per cent. In
ord"r to know how to use them
increases another five per cent.
This means to use them proper.
ly as regards position to be able
to change from right to left 20!
sitiOn.
Teach your sons and help them
handle tools as | have indicated.
BY doing so their muscular de-
velOpment will become more
steady, and they will attain a
high perfection of bodily develop
ment. The best tools pay their
way and many times over.
A large proportion of the time
and labor devoted to milking
may be saved. The best and
most rapid way to milk is with
the thumbs in the palms of the
hands. A thumb milkey is fit.
cen per cent quicker than the
other. l can prove why this is
the best method. In Europe it
is the only method known. In
America many first class dairy.
men will not employ a palm
mixer. Although it is advis.
able to know how to do palm
milking in case of necessity.
Good speed in milking a normal
ly easy milking COW, giving two
or three gallons per milking is
five to six minutes as al average
ON six to nine COWS.
Instead of feeding milk to
calves, one at a time, use stanch-
ions so that three or four may be
fed at once. Also fix the cows
stanchions so that at least six or
more may be opened with one
operation. In the horse barn
have the harness hanging over
the horses backs, as is done in
the fire station. This will save
80 per cent in labor or time. In
irrigation it may be increased
many per cent by evening land
by special leveler, or grades, by
using devices to let water out of
laterals, such as sheet iron or
canvas checks.
Farmers sons is rightly train
ed may learn to use machinery
at an early age. | cannot see
why a ten-year-old boy normal
physically and mentally cannot
run a mower, hay rake. sweep
rake, harrow, etc. My little bro
theirs have done it and l can not
see why others can't do it also.
1t has been done in our own
family then why not in others?
This does not mean to keep
children out of school, but they
should learn this during vaca
tion days.
In stacking hay with a stack.
er and two push rakes, when
two men IRE required on the
stack and a boy or a man at the
stacker, by using a rake and
stacker One man only is needed
un the stack, as the hay is not
put in the middle of the stack.
Any farmer using a disc har.
row, single row cultivator for
corn, potatoes or sugar beets,
instead of two row machines,
loses $1.75 for every day he uses
the one row machine. Two har-
rows side by side or one behind
the other, saves 81 Is a day, or
the cost of an extra mans work.
Never get the idea that work
ing on Sunday or from sun rise
to sunset will put you to the
front any faster than it will just
working six days in a week. In
fact, it is loss of power. The
man who works six days a week