Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . and the TR4CT0. ON THE rafters of the stable of an old Ontariofarm may be seen a well-worn set of ox harnessand, standing underneath it, one of the latest typesof tractors on the market. The harness had been usedon a splendid team of oxen when their owner, a ruggedold pioneer, had ploughed the virgin soil fifty or sixtyyears ago, but it has long since been laid aside and isnow covered with dusty cobwebs. The youngest sonof the old man now does the same work with the tractorin as many days as it usjd to take his father weeks withhis ox team. It is a l
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . and the TR4CT0. ON THE rafters of the stable of an old Ontariofarm may be seen a well-worn set of ox harnessand, standing underneath it, one of the latest typesof tractors on the market. The harness had been usedon a splendid team of oxen when their owner, a ruggedold pioneer, had ploughed the virgin soil fifty or sixtyyears ago, but it has long since been laid aside and isnow covered with dusty cobwebs. The youngest sonof the old man now does the same work with the tractorin as many days as it usjd to take his father weeks withhis ox team. It is a long story from the days of the oxen to the days of thetractor, but the lesson remains the same, namely, that if the worldswork is to be properly done, with efficiency and economy, then itmust be done by modern methods. Forty years ago, the administration of the estate of a deceasedperson would be committed to a private individual, because therewere no Trust Companies in Canada in those days. The modemmethod, however, is to name a Trust Company as the Exec
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