The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-01-12
SOUTHERN BANKERS SOLID
ON POWER FARMING

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ON POWER FARMING
The strengthening of the cotton
market has developed commendable
interest in power farming in the
south. AS evidence Of this inter-
est, the following quotation is taken
from the advertising copy of a large
banking institution in Georgia, which
has branches in the four largest cit
les of the state.
sWhen farmer makes two bales
of cotton grow where only one grew
before-that,s service. But the
farmer can only do this when he is
able to farm with modern facilities
tractors, cultivators and other power
machinery, ample fertilizer, ETC."
THE LAY OF JOE's BINDER
It lay in the rain and the SHOWS,
That shiny new binder of Joe's,
It Law in the wind and the sun
From the time it's years labor was
done,
He left it right there in its tracks,
While its shiny paint peel off, and
cracks,
Out there in the snow and the rain,
Till Joe happens to need it again,
Then, weakened by rot and by rust,
Joe's shiny new binder will bust.
OLNEY MADE A. S. A. E.
SECRETARY
The resignation of Frank p. Han
son Of Ames, Iowa, from the secre-
taryship of the American Society of
Agricultural Engineers to accept a
commercial position has been follow
ed by the appointment of Raymond
Oiney, st. Joseph, Mich, as secretary
of the society Mr.. Olney has for
some months been editor of the
Journal of the society, and the new
move centralizes the secretarial and
editorial activities.
LABOR SAVING IN THE HOME
81 prefer to talk labor-saving ma
chies for won1een to an audience of
men," said State Home Demonstra-
ton Leader. "Men will go away
and do something about it, but the
women do not seem to think the sit
uation calls for action"
It does call for action. There are
18,000,00O women in the United
States engaged in homework. Evil
! IDENTIFY, housework is very essential
business in the scheme of keeping
alive. 1t is, therefore, worthy of
some study and of systematic effort
to make it efficient and less taxing.
women are making new places
for themselves in the world" says
Grace Marian Smith, land house
work must be so disposed of as not
to occupy so much time that it crowds
other things out of women's lives.
at is not that the work is neces-
sarily distasteful, though no honest
thinker will contend that family life
is profted because woman spends
hours and days and weeks and years
of her life scrubbing The trouble with
Homework is that there is too much
of it. It's nerve-faggiAg muscle-tiring,
spirit-breaking power lies in the null
tiplicity of duties, the responsible
ties that crowd, the having to be on
time with the cooking and sewing,
the preserving and baking, the sweep
ing and busting, and somewhere
along the line to bear and rear and
dress and care for and train the next
generation. 1t is work beyond the
time and strength and knowledge
which women have to give.
1T is not only important, it is abb
solutely essential that we take adj
vantage of everything science and re-
search can offer to tighten the bur-
dens and shorten the hours required
to do the less necessary tasks, so
that there may be time and strength
and enthusiasm for the more import
ant duties"
1MAO1ORO M Eel ALL
HARD FLOWING TESTS
The international Tractor Trails
and Power Farming Exhibition, or
ganized by the British Society OF Mo-
tor Manufactures and Tractors, was
concluded recently.
A feature was deep blowing. One
tractor drew pillow that turned a
furrow II inches deep, depth that
could not be turned by horses. An
other feature was self lifting harrow
tests, which is absolutely new in
farming operations. These an other
experiments during the trials have
shown that agricultural implement
makers are adapting their machines
to the tractor. The concluding days
blowing was on fields baked hard by
the dry weather, but plowshares in