Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-07-21
A TEST THAT AFFECTS
COST OF LIVING

table of every soul It'd America. 70 the
whole human race. as any single me
chanicai development has meant Ia our
history
ii In the test of machine that IL
bringing into use new shallow pIowed
soil equal Ia all The tilIaDle soil of the
New England States several times
over
III Ii the test of i development that
lis bound 10 solve The problem IL the
high cost III living. to aid the producer
aud the consumer alike
I'D 10 saturday b farm tractor had
run is IL days without a stop Of 50
much dis second ana was still run
ming
The tractor Is d power machine that
rakes the place 81 horses Il hauls
pl0ws, harrows. drills. frags. wagons
hayrakes. anything used ON. the farm.
This tractor did more than merely
run during the test time: 1t worked 60
minutes of every one u the "a hours
II All III the is IL days, day, night and
sunday being taken from one field To
lliOtheE. working through several rain
storms. through daylight and dark all
hat time.
Iii plowed 80 acres. disked 20 acres.
lrilled TO acres. cut 80 acres of grain,
md when there was nothing else for
i To do ID was made 10 work on the
roads. drawing drag over A miles %
foad, and is sill at work ut this writ.
ng, getting It's oil and changing from
5ne driver 20 another while In motion,
This tractor ii going 10 help solve
he living problem in two very distinct
ways.
a team Of horses has the strength
d pull pillow That turns furr0w only
lhout four or 1--WE inches deep. The
ractor has the strength Of several
cams of horses and easily pulls d pillow
hat nlows eight to ten inches deep
rhe result ~ that all over this land Of
1nrs al least three inches of new soil
will be brought MP and titled soil that
never has been turned up before This,
mixed with the old soil. enriches Il. I'M
;reasing the yield Of crops and event
iallg producing enough extra food 10
lelp out the living problem.
Again, il team Of horses Will pillow
lbout two acres of ground day; d
arm tractor will pillow six TO eight
scres day
Farmers have been raising crops for
wo purposes to sell and to feed the
lnimals that furnish the power on the
arm.
A tractor will do the work Of about
hree teams Of horses and o team Of
lorses uses food from acreage that
gould supply several men
Farm tractors burn kerosene oil, and
Il replacing horses each tractor re-
leases enough soil for food for human
consumption to feed al least ten per-
;ons A million tractors will save food
Or ten million people.
Henry Ford ais farm boy had q
Vision.
II was hat Of taking the drudgery
out of farming
Getting new Inspiration from the
snccess of his motor car he turned to
helping out the toilers fl their food
problem. and the farmers in their pro
lucing problems He spent days and
nights, studying. testing, working, try
ag out plans, developing and il still
1T it.
He did what he always tries To do,
help somebody without hurting or tax.
ng away from somebody else He de-
veIoped something that adds TO the ma.
ions resources possibility Of pro-
lnction that was not known before.
He helps the buyer Of produce and
he farmer as well by enabling the
armer to produce more with less eff
Tort and 20 have more To sell
The trend OF Mr. Ford's thought is
shown In the fact that lie recently in-
,reased the wages OF the men in the
tractor plant so that the minimum
wage was raised from SIS So day.
he improved the tractor, and at the
same time cut sI35 on Its price To the
farmer.
Nor does he intend permitting amy
one to interfere with his program Of
letting the workers share in the bene-
ats as far as he sees ii possible to go
and to do better hy the farmer with
future development, for he has kept
The ownership Of every cent OF the
stock 81 the company IN his own fam
ily
And IN fact he intends letting the
farmer have considerable TO do with
the manufacture Of the tractors, work.
Ing winter times on parts. in plants to
be distributed on water power sites
over the country
What the automobile has done for
transportation. the tractar will do for
power in farming and II q worth ones
while to watch that test at Wichita,
for 1t means much for all.
WHEN TINE RECKONING cOMRS
Testifying before the Federal Street
Railway Commission ID Washington.
Guy 3. Tripp. chairman Of the West
Inghouse Manufacturing Company,
said that great fortunes had been made
ny street railway CORPORATIONS but