HOW UNITED STATES FARMERS CARRY ON

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 278, 13 August 1918, Page 6

HOW UNITED STATES FARMERS CARRY ON

TRACTORS SAVE TUB SITUATION. With liis sons gone to fill his country's regiments, and droves of his horses pulling artillery at the bafctlcfront, the United States farmer is carrying on just tho same, lack, of help and horsepower have not held him back. He has got to produce bigger crops, at a greater expense, over'wider areas than ever before. And if he fails, someone will go hungry. But he's not going to. fail. Even without his horses and his sons, nnd with farm Tielp scarce, lie is winning. The' solution of his "problem lias been the tractor. At the present time one. hundred thousand tractors are chugging and tugging away jn the fields,, early, and late, doing the work of 200,000 farm hands and several times- that many horses. The 'tractor never requires a rest at the headland, nor does it pauso to grazo on the growing corn as it goes along. Not every farmer can afford to buy a tractor of his own. Therefore, neighbtiurhood associations o[ farmers 'have been formed to buy 'tractor's, so • that the machines will never be idle. As soon as one farmer has finished a certain job, ho delivers this tractor to his neighbour, who drives straight through with his work so that another neighbour may have the use of the machine. This may be a little unhandy at times, but it gives a community a chance to speed tip its work that it could get in no other way.