The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-19
GREAT REVOLUTION
IN FARMING WORK
All Previous Records
to be Broken in
192O-21
SIX DAYS in ONE

SIX DAYS in ONE
AS a part of the great revolution
that is taking place in agriculture we
wish to mention that the high prices
of feed in some of the states is caus-
ing the owners of horses to sell them
! for slaughter and the firms that buy
them are using the hides for leather
and various other parts of the ami
mails for different purposes.
Slaughtering Work Horses
A horse that was worth $3.50 on
the farm last spring sells for about
$4,000 for the purposes named
above. The horses place in industry
will be filled by motor driven We
hicles and motor driven implements
among which will be the Fordson
tractor and Fordson farming imple-
ments. It is fresh in the minds of
everybody now the Ford car became
the universal car only few years
ago. Since that was perfected they
concentrated their efforts in making
them in what they call volume pro-
duction, and they are being made in
quantities that were unheard of in
the world before.
Motor Implements Coming
When those activities were in sue
cessful operation the Ford tractor
was invented, tested out, rebuilt
many times and finally pronounced
perfect. But before farm tractor
could take it's place for great useful
ness there must be means of their
adapting the farm implements to it
so that a man would not have to
spend time experimenting with his
plow and other implements to see
how they must be hitched on in
order to work together.
The Ford people have overcome
this difficulty by inventing plows
that hitch on for the most perfect
work, behind the Fordson tractor.
When a man buys tractor and
set of plows he can go into the field
and do profitable work from the first
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ground
Sweeping Change of Tools
What we have said of the Ford
son plows may be said of full line
of farm implements, including har-
rows, both in the spike-tooth,
spring-tooth and flexible pipe har-
rows Seed drills of the various
sizes and for the different kinds of
grain are also on the market already
for attaching to the Fordson tractor.
Plows for breaking, plows for alfalfa
meadows, plows for stubble ground,
chilled plows for. hard or rocky
ground, orchard plows, hay balers
and threshing machines. All of
these things have been perfected and
so arranged that they can hitch on
or connect with the Fordson tractor
and do profitable work from the first
moment.
Passing Of the Horse
The man who has sold his horses
to save the winter feed will probably
not buy horses again in the spring.
After buying Fordson tractor he
will necessarily buy the best imple-
ments in the world to attach to the
tractor.
Motor Agencies Established
AS an evidence of how the way is
being paved for these new imple-
ments to sweep the country we men
ton that each Ford agency in the
| United States will be required to
stock up this winter with Fordson
tractors and Fordson farming imple-
ments. The agency that does not
want to handle these goods will
cease to be a Ford agency. The
History of the development OF the
great implement businesses in
America has been replete with
sweeping changes, the most inspir-
ing, but during the present. winter
and the season of 1920 the Ameri-
can people will witness greater
change than they have ever seen be-
fore. The conditions Of the country
the fundamentals in every way are
ripe for such change and it is COM
| ing with rush.
The Several Fundamentals
It will answer SO many Of the
pressing demands that it is interest
ing to enumerate them. The high
prices Of horses and harness, the
high price of feed for the horses, the
high price and the scarcity of farm
labor, the great saving Of time that
a tractor will make by working long
hours as compared with the slow
process by team work, the. fact that
the tractor can work day and night
and accomplish in day what several
horses could accomplish in week,
the great advantages Of getting the
crop put in quickly when the soil Is
in it's best condition, the adaptability
of the tractor to all the different