The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-20
|1lCTOR TRADE
|IETTER IN ROCK
ISLAND COUNTY
..a.istic Reports Prom Farmers
| go Implement Dealers, Says
RIdgway I'M Tribune.

/ ssrmer in every 10 in Rock
20 county is the owner OF a
-or according to Frank Ridg-
those series of farm articles
.s.sr in the Chicago Tribune
y Ridgway states that tractor
,..,,en in this section believed
y had a slim chance of increas-
This number until prices OF
and cattle began to start up
~. during the last few days.
Tracts from the article are as
Flows:
% 2 Edgerton, the farm advis-
q This county, said today that
..Sitions among the farmers were
srsr in this part OF the state than
- have been in IA months.
-sWhile we are more or less di-
...,sed in our farming, our farm
]. make their money by growing
y, and feeding It to hogs and
.sIs" he said. Naturally. when
= price of hogs and cattle be-
: 10 climb they become more OPP
Is-,stic. When things look better
I = the farmer it affects our whole
smmunity. including the bankers
+ "a business men. When the farm
Is getting a fair price for his
.,cducts the bankers are more lib
III with their credit"
optimistic reports coming in
~ the Rock Island county farm
i - was cheerful news to imple-
-snt dealers, who had figured their
mspects for selling tractors in
/ 4 corn belt this spring as doubt
IN The sales manager of one of
IN Moline factories said that most
his orders for tractors during
n last few weeks had been COM
I 81 from outside the corn belt ter
Aory, but with the upward turn
n the market many more farmers
stkis section would be able to buy
Factors that had planned to get
|loug with their horses for an
tAer cropping season.
Farmers Not Hard Hit.
alt is an evident fact that the
|smers in this county have not
len as hard hit as they have II
|astern Illinois, where they depend
great extent on the growing
' Il corn for a living. Farmers VI
n this section have gotten a fail
vice for their corn by feeding
to hogs and selling as meat in
ssad of corn. Hogs now selling
hove 10 cents is having a marked
hauence on the buying power o
Dcck Island county farmers, whC
hrough their various shipping as
Aciatons alone, marketed GIT car
lads of livestock last year, valuet
s., 249, 507.34.
1 farmers in this section say tina
zbg are greatly encouraged owe
Enr prospects Of returning to nor
III since the senate approved co
,srative marketing, and bushes
b. have stretched out their hand
Eigork with them in solving thei
XfNlems.
Tinety-five per cent Of the trac
LIS owned in Rock Island count.
De on farms of $50 acres or more
Ecording to rough estimates mad
the farm advisor. He thinks tina
y normal times many more farm
Is in his county could operate trac
1s to an advantage. Farmer
hound Rock Island and Moline ar
Rnerally satisfied with their trac
rs. Mr.. Edgerton says that Will!
trmers realize the tractor speed
D. their work and is great he'll
those who have enough land L
zStify power farming, gasoline ant
ssd are out of line this spring an
phi prevent many farmers from
Ving tractors
L Tractor Cuts Overhead.
Few tractors are operated ol
zrms of less than 100 acres in thi
faunty Farmers favor the small
Factor. because of lower overhea'
psf. The light tractor will do tn
PORK satisfactorily, they say, on tn
rerage farm in this section, an
isy can use the small machine L
70 their belt work.
4 1t is considered a significant fac