Arizona republican., 1920-08-22
HART-PARR MANAGER HERE ON VISIT HAS
 INTERESTING VIEWS

We city folks will be eatlng eVapof- ated Bermuda grass within three years unless we wake up and lend the farmer a hand-in the matter of better markets, extension of middle term credit and improved farm equipment, declared James z. George, vice president and general manager of the Texas chamber of commerce, before gathering of farmers, bankers and business men at Dallas recently.
 O A Lohrke, southwestern manager for Hart-P Tractor company, of Charles City, Iowa attended this meet ing, and he is authority for the state ment that never in the history of the United States has it been more neces- sary to assist the farmer and agricul- turalist than at thls time. He states that the business men of Texas have awakened to the great need of the farmer for tractor and farm equip ment, and that steps are being taken to see that the farmer gets the proper financing to enable him to properly raise and market the crops he raises, and which are so needed in this time of insufficient production of foodstuffs.
 MT. Lohrke, who is spending several days with the local distributor of Hart-Parr tractors-the Montgomery Thomas company-states that the great activity in the state of Missouri is an example of what can be done to increase food production. He says that in two years time, Missouri has bought 20, GOO tractors. The people of that state now are employing over 10000 tractors to prepare and harvest their crops. This is in state that has prided itself upon its ability to get work out of a mule.
 MT LohrIxe in speaking of the devel- opment of the tractor industry says, 'The farm tractor is the big romance of the farming and business world to- <7s ,l 111fffO iZed farming and created a great new manufacturing enterprise.
 'SThe growth of the tractor industry has been steady since the days back in the nineties. In 1918 the output of tractor factories was doubled and in the year of 1920 it is estimated that 345,000 tractors will be built in the 1 United States.
 Tt was in the late nineties that c. l W. Hart and C. H. Parr two young men in the engineering department of | the University of Wisconsin formed companionship that ended in part l nership and the founding of a great enterprise-The Hart-Parr company. | founders of the tractor industry.
 "The old reliable Hart Parrs not l only conquered the virgin prairies of | the northwest but paved the way for the present Hart-Parr .'30'' and other tractors which played such an import ant part in winning the world war and making it possible for the progressive farmer of today to successfully cope with the high wages now prevailing and labor shortage. Just as Yankee ingenuity was the marvel of the allies 1 during the war, the same ingenuity is the wonder of the European countries ! today.
 When the embargo was placed on ! Egyptian cotton, It made cotton grow ing in this country very profitable and the great deserts were turned into flourishing cotton plantations. People of the southwest lose much of the thrill of this development because they have seen the whole thing accom- plished but to the stranger who saw a ! desert a few short years ago, it looks like a phenomenon.
 Josh Billings said, "The difference between the successful farmer and the failure is, one waits for the COW to back up to be milked and the other goes after the cow" The Salt River valley brand of farmers sure go after the COW.
 Last year, D. F.. Thomas of Mont gomery Thomas-Hart-P -Parr company was pioneering this territory with the Hart-Parr '30' for the Southern Borders Motor company, distributors for the southwest at that time. w. s. Mont gomery was preparing land at Mari nette for cotton. He used tractors and soon had eliminated all but the Hart Parr on his ranch. Thomas had been servicing those Hart-Parr tractors for Montgomery, the farmer, and a friend
 ship grew up between the two.
 "The same sort of service that made Thomas the tractor man, popular with
 Montgomery as farmer, is the watch
 word of the Montgomery Thomas
 Hart-Parr company and Salt River
 valley farmers are to be congratulated
 on having such combination behind a tractor that has already proven itself . the wSrthy sop of a great sire"