San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-09
U.S,FARMERS
UTILIZE NIGHT
TIME IN WORK
Bark of Tractor Heard at
All Hours in Some
Sections.
TO INCREASE OUTPUT
Idea Of Working "a Hours
a Day Started During
World War. n
TO INCREASE OUTPUT
By j. G. ROYLE.

| Copyright, by the San Antonio Light.
New York, Sept. S.-The farmers
day is no longer confined to the period
from dawn to dusk.
1t extends at least sixteen hours in
some localities and many are utilizing
every hour of the "a.
Farmers in the Northwest and in
the grain states of the Middle West
are blowing at night, using tractor
searchlights and automobile headlights
to guide the gang plows, in the fur
rows.
This added activity is due to urging
by agricultural authorities that the
stubble of the fields be turned in
August and September in order that
the ground might produce the greatest
possible yield. -
As n result the bark of the tractor
is heard from dawn to dawn.
In the Kansas wheat belt and in
Minnesota and the Dakotas, hands
are working in three shifts of eight
hours each.
The 24-hour day on the farms was
inaugurated during war time to in
crease food production and has been
resumed this year not so much to in
crease acreage as to insure ADDED
yield.
The necessary blowing could not be
done ON many farms of from 800 TO
1000 acres unless men and machines
worked throughout the "a hours.
More Might Work.
A similar procedure is being fol-
lowed where weather conditions have
made rapid harvesting necessary.
There is more night work on the
farms than since the war because la
Dor has been in scant supply for ex-
tended periods and owners have had to
use the men to the utmost while they
were available.
Implement dealers in Chicago say,
however, that it will be many years
before the three eight-hour shifts be-
come established on American farms.
The working day of the farmers Of
Montana, Idaho and Washington
where the light fingers long is now
close to fifteen hours. With harvest
ing and threshing going on, the snip
ment of the grain to sidetracks on the
railroads by truck is being done at
| night.
Shipments of wheat to tide water
points on the Columbia river and
Puget Sound are gradually increasing
I, in consequence.
Little fall blowing has yet been done
in that vicinity where there will be n
decrease of about 10 per cent in win
ter wheat.
There has been n further advance OF
cents barrel in the price of flour
for export at Portland, Ore, to $3.50
for club straight and it is believed
even higher prices would be available
for quick delivery as millers are so
heavily booked that prompt shipment
in most cases is impossible.
Hong Kong buyers who had secured
much of the new crop flour of the
| Northwest at low prices are reported
to be re-selling at handsome profits
and Japanese speculation also is re-
ported by Chinese cables.
Higher Anthracite Prices.
Satisfaction over the agreement by
| miners ana operators on the main
points of new wage agreement which
indicates the speedy termination Ct
suspension of mining, was tempered
by the virtual certainty of higher coal
prices.
Many users, however, have laid in
their winters supply at the old
prices
Governor Pinchot estimated the in
crease in cost at 60 cents ton at the
mine, but other experts maintained
that the increase in the delivered price
would reach 81 ton if not more.
Outside of the consumers. however
the other interested parties found
something of advantage in agreement
on the main points at issue.
The miners will receive wage in
creases of 10 per cent and the eight
hour day. which will mean approx
mately So, 100000 in their pockets
each year.
The>63erators say they have "bea
the check-off," the most Objectionable
of the miners demands and have Sc
cured a sponsor in Governor pilcho
! 70 advapoa in priaas