Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-03

AMERICAN agricultural
Amachinery has aided greatly
in maintaining farm production
in al the war ridden countries
Of Europe the last two years
just q X has helped speed up
farm work throughout the
world for the last quarter CEN
tury. Never more than since
the war period, however, has
its efficiency been proved and
generally recognized.
When France came out OF
the world war with her farm
help reduced to the minimum,
her horses practically wiped off
the face Of the land, and her
former productive acres shell
torn and to 4 great measure
untillable, the American tractor
played big part in her rehabil-
1tatjor in an agricultural way.
Tractors and disc plows speedily
worked wonders.
When harvest time came along even
OK drawn reapers made possible the
garnering Of crops that otherwise
might have been in part sacrificed
to the lack Of manual labor to care
for them. Save for the adverse
exchange conditions which makes
machinery purchases for the time
bsins virtually prohibidve, there would
Be q tremendous market for agTieul-
tuyal machinery IN France today.
Much the same condition prevails
throughout Europe.
They're Redeemine France
Demonstra eions Of American trae-
tors, disc plovs and other agricultural
machinsry during the last two years
in France have attracted widespread
attent;on. These have had the ap-
provA and personal attention Of the
Minister Of Agriculture and have
psved the way for an ultimate extern
1--WE market there. Recently very
successful experiments have been made
in disc blowing in the vineyards At =
surprising reduction Of cost.
Once conditions get back to some
thing approaching normally in Russia
another productive field will be re-
opened. Before the war descended
upon Europe with its blighting effect
Russia was one Of the most promising
potential markets for American agri-
cultural machinery. In the richly
productive Ukrainian wheat region
American reapers and binders had
long been in use. The tractor had not
gained such favorable recognition,
being a later production, but even
it had received favorable Official ztten-
ton and Endorsement, the result Of
government conducted experimental
demonstrations.
Similar conditions existed in Rou-
mania, also 4 great wheat producing
region, and there upon the larger
estates American made reapers and
binders were operated extensively, in
what one might term batteries, it
being no uncommon sight in harvest
season to see as many as half dozen
methodica lly blowing their way through
a grain field. Roumania's loss Of man
power will make necessary for some
years to come a more liberal use Of
labor saving machinery in the farming
territory. Tractors have been intro
duced upon only limited scale in
Roumania.
Tractors on the Veldt
Dropping down into Africa one
finds the Algerians making much the
same extensive use Of harvesting
machinery, but yet to come into ex-
tensivc adoption Of the tractor and
the disc pillow. At the other extreme
Of Africa, however, in the expansive
veldt region Of the Transvaal, tractors
and disc plows have been in use for
q number of years, the frs. being
inuodueed from England. There,
more perhaps than any other section
Of Africa, the farmers are welded to
deep tilling and the larger the pillow
the better its reception. American
reapers abound and are preferred
shove al others.
Asia also is catching the progressive
agricultural spirit and improved Amer
lean machinery is in use in Korea,
in small way in Siberia, and to about
the same degree in India. Harvesting
machinery leads with all Of them,
being older, but tractors and disc
plows are gaining rapidly in favor.
Tractors and plows particularly are also
being extensively used in the agricultur-
a and cane field districts of Cuba.
Probably Of all the potential markets
for American agricultural machinery
sone is of greater promise than that
At South America. In the Argentine
more attention is being paid annually
to wheat raising. This years wheat
crop promises to exceed all former
records and as agricultural develop
ment grows more and more of that
tremendously favored country will be
converted into productive farm lands
instead Of being held entirely for range
purposes.
Countless thousands Of acres Of
land, most admirably suited to agri-
culture, are still lying entirely unused