The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-05-06
Rural Life IN Marion County
It's Climate, Fruits, FIOUers and Scenic attractions
Destined to Make It a Second Garden Of Eden :


labor at the cost OF $s.7s to produce an
acre of oats; IN 1893 ii took only seven
hours and six minutes, at labor cost
of sI.o7, 70 do rhefsame thing.
From 1855 to 1894 the human labor
time in producing bushel of corn,
says the same report. decreased from
four hours and 80 minutes to Al min
utes. In 1880 man had to work a
total of four hours and 80 minutes in
producing a bushel of wheat, while
! In 1894. il took only 10 minutets of
man work TO get bushel of wheat.
The labor cost iii the case Of wheat,
says the report. fell from II ga cents
/ to 3 rs cents in the same period of
time
In 1880 the average number of acres
cultivated by each. farm worker in
America was 2s.3; the number rose to
81 by 1909, and the value of each work
er's annual product rose from s454,3
/ ~ F-op-S@, lIlsil lSf rlt ftiIf6<tSc VI StDOut
so per cent due to labor-saying machin-
Iseery
Mr.. Aaron Hardy Ulrn. writing for
THE Dearborn Independent says that
since the above figures were develop
ed, the advance in laborsaving farm
machinery has been almost as phe-
fnomenal as during the period covered
/ by them For when the statistics were
! worked out. there were virtually no
TRACTORS, no motor trucks. or few COM
bines for harvesting wheat Though
today it is possible to do all the worl,
lof planting wheat by a. single oper-
alton and all that of harvesting by
tanothcr operation immense machines
being used in each instancea farm
economist tells me that lie estimates
the normal labor time given to the pro-
duction Of an acre Of wheat at about
10 hours.
Machinery is doing almost as much
for The farm us for the factory and
+ lah7r-sasing devices for the farm no
more thar for the factory have by no
means reached their Limitations.
The same authority says:
IF one wants to stretch the ifnagin-
ation the day can be visioned when
animal power will be an unknown
quantity on the American farm The
census Of 1920 is disclosing a large de
crease in the farm horse population
Sas we'll rs IN the number of horses in
i the cities There. are probably more
than a half million tractors on Ameri.
/ can farms at the present time. The
distribution during the last several
years has been at the rate Of 10000
1 to 100000 a year.
Mechanics give assurance that farm.
ing, Mr.. Tim says, has passed forever
the pumpkin and clodhopper era-the
"hoe fasmings stage as the students
of rural life call it. But the beginner
II Ni5C, " la ftPk,i itiiiN
farming with due care and caution.
The tractor, for example. went through
20 years. experimentation before IL
proved its case by practical demonstra.
tion. But there is no question now,
say the investigators. that the tractor
] is doing and will continue to do wond
ers for farming.
Florida is rich in building material
of wood and stone
Fuller,s earth. lzaolin. phosphate
lime, phoslime and lime rock. gypsum
sandstone. clay, and other material
suitable for making artificial stone,
tile. brick. drain pipe and stucco work
In his address at Lakeland in Febru
ary last Mr.. r. ID. Martin. the retiring
president of the Florida Engineering
Society, among other things OF impor
tance. said:
i 'Most OF you are familiar with mass
concrete work, but how many OF you