Arizona republican., 1918-11-10
FORD HOPES ID PUT
 TRACTORS WIT HIN
 REACH 0F FARMERS

The following article, furnished by Ed Rudolph, distributor of the Fordson tractor for Maricopa county, from the Fordowner of November, is of timely interest.
 Henry Ford is confident that the Fordson tractor will be just as big a seller as the motor car, and he has all ready laid the foundation for one of the greatest industrial corporations in the world.
 The plant in Dearborn is gaining speed, and is producing more tractors with each succeeding week. It is operating A hours a day in filling or ders. and there isn't any question but what it will keep on indefinitely at this pace.
 Henry Ford, in time of war, is pre- pairing for the tremendous revival of 1 business that will come after the cessa- tion of hostilities-and, at the time of this writing October 15) it would seem as though peace is to come in the not far distant future.
 Henry Ford, in perfecting his tract or, worked harder, even, than he did in making a finished product of his auto mobile.
 His 7,00O-acre farm, just south of l l present efficiency of the tractor. ! It was on that farm that Mr Ford i conducted his first experiments; it i was as a result of the trials on that l farm that MT. Ford reached his pres { ent very definite position. In sending i out tractors MT. Ford stipulated that ! every broken piece should be turned over to the superintendent in charge of 1 that division of constructions from { that superintendent it went on to MT. l Ford. Weeks and weeks were spent
 in the laboratory. and, finally, MT. | Ford succeeded in gaining his object
 he had a machine with a maximum efficiency.
 One Illustration
 In the beginning the company had a lot of trouble with broken fans Num-
 erOus experiments were made and
 finally MT. Ford decided to flatten the
 sides and put a groove in the center.
 In this way the fan would serve it's purpose, and it would not strike any
 other part of the machinery. It was
 tried out. It was found successful.
 Scores of other experiments were
 made. The steel in certain parts was
 hardened above the steel of other parts
 for it was found that certain parts
 carried more of the load than did
 others. So on right down through the
 entire tractor.
 Mir. Ford was not content until he
 had completed the job.
 It is complete now, and that is why
 he says the tractor will be the weapon
 of peace that will win the war.
 It is doing it's bit in supplying
 foodstuffs for the fighting nations, anC
 the food question is the big factor il
 determining the winner. It was tn,
 absence of food that nearly brough
 d.own England. and it was the For( tractor that gave the British thei
 chance to cultivate thousands ant
 thousands of acres that could not hay, l been reached under the old methods It is the Ford tractor that is goins into uncultivated places in this countr7 l after the war and which is going t, make gardens of them , Never an hour goes by in the tracto , plant but what experiments are bein, conducted. While Mir. Ford is brett, well satisfied with his machine he i far from being content with the pric } he IS forced to ask for it. Every cen } in the cost of manufacture is know 5 and it is the aim of the company | l reduce this cost
 } The cost will be reduced to the abso t iute limit, so as to bring it, as said il 5 the opening paragraph. within tn l reach of every farmer in the country 5 The farmer, instead of having | t mortgage his land, as he does in man : instances, to secure expensive imple
 ments, will be able to pay spot cas l for his principal accessory It will b f his own and there will not be an : chance of anyone stepping in and talk Q ing 1t away from him because of tn ! non payment of dues. t That is what MT. Ford is aimin S for.
 e He wants every farmer in the cour = try to be independent-and to feel tha e way, too. t n The only way to make them the e way is to put them in a position whe1 = they are dependent on only one perso1 Q that person being each individual agr y culturist
 = And the man who made the cheape! e and best automobile on the market wi d see his other, and his greater, perhap n cream realized
 c Of that there is little question.