The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 1, 1920, Page 11

- —‘D L A A Tractor Tip Use Proper Machinery for Suc- cess, Says Sweet. BY F. H. SWEET =] OT buying proper machin- ery and equipment is the cause of more tractor failures than anything else. Let’s take one farmer’s experience as an example. About two years ago this man bought an 8-16 tractor to help out with the rush plowing. He took his plow horses, put them to do- ing light work, and hitched the trac- tor to the gang they had been pulling. He didn’t want to take an eXtra man to ride the gang, because labor ‘was scarce and. high; and the result was that the. plows would not pene- trate because the gang was too light to secure penetration without a rider. It also ran away and gave trouble in many other ways. But this farmer could not see what was wrong so he worried along with this and other light implements until he had lost enough time and had broken enough of the light machinery to twice pay for all the new equipment he needed in the beginning. The end of it all-was that he became soured on power farming and “knocked” it with- out. mercy. Finally his local news- paper carried a want ad offering his tractor for sale. This ad was the obituary notice of power farming in that neighborhood, when it should have been a monument to the ignorance and ideas of false economy of the man who tried to use light machinery to do heavy work, and machinery . designed for one thing to do the tasks of other machines. ~ When you - start out to do power farming, therefore, start right. If you can’t start.in.a way that assures suc- cess, don’t start.” If you do you will form a bad opinion of a good thing and cause other people who have watched you to form the same opinion. VALUE OF GOOD BULLS The first cross of a purebred bull on the average dairy herd increases the income $32 per cow. These figures were secured: in the province® of On- . tario in a comparison of 140 herds using grade bulls and 31 using pure- breds. Rex E. Willard of the farm management department of the North Dakota Agricultural college shows that if one farmer with 20 cows using * grade bulls received an income .of $1,680, his neighbor, with 20 cows but who began using purebred bulls five years ago, should receive $2,320, or $640 more. X FARM LABOR WAGES The United States department of agriculture reports that the average wage of farm labor, employed by the month and furnished board, was $62.96 in the western, mountain and Pacific coast states. The average in the south Atlantic states was only $30.54,~and for the country the average was only $39.82. : : Harvest wages per. day, with board, averaged $4.48, the department re- -ports, in the north central states west of the 'Mississippi river, being the highest in the country. ORGANIZATION PAYS Eggs from the Pacific coast bring 2 premium of from 1 to 2 cents on the New York market, owing to the strict grading ' system practiced by their shipping bureaus. g BIG COLONIZATION PLAN Illinois capitalists have invested $110,000 in lands near Marmath, N. D., which they plan to open immedi- _ ately for colonization. ’ BAER FOR “LIBERTY WEEK” Congressman John M. Baer, Lea- guer, of North Dakota, has introduced a resolution providing for the designa- tion by congress of “Liberty week,” during which programs should be urg- ed ‘“to stimulate the revival of old- fashioned Americanism.” the works and speeches of Washing- ton, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Lincoln, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Gar- rison, Daniel Webster and other pa- triots is urged, also the reading of the Declaration of Independence, the pre- amble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. - FARMER ELEVATORS There are 4,400 farmer-owned ele- vators in the United States. heads the list with 530. Kansas is sec- ond with 515 and North Dakota third with a few over 580. Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota.aré close behind. 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