. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . INTERESTING SPECIMENS OF KANSAS PRODUCTS. (114). FARMING BY HACHINERY IN KANSAS. BT HON. D. W. BLAINE. The ease and rapidity with which all kinds of farm work are performed in Kansas, by the use of farmmachinery, has made the Kansas farmer the envy of all classes. He is sometimes charged with prodigalitym the purchase of new machinery, but ere
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . INTERESTING SPECIMENS OF KANSAS PRODUCTS. (114). FARMING BY HACHINERY IN KANSAS. BT HON. D. W. BLAINE. The ease and rapidity with which all kinds of farm work are performed in Kansas, by the use of farmmachinery, has made the Kansas farmer the envy of all classes. He is sometimes charged with prodigalitym the purchase of new machinery, but ere we pass judgment on this we should remember that the pasttwenty years has given us, annually, such great improvements in all classes of agricultural implements andfarm machinery that the progressive, intelligent and industrions farmer recognized that it was economy todiscard the old for the latest improved. With the opening up of the Great West (especially Kansas), it became apparent that the immense are*of tillable land was too large to be farmed in the old way. The inventor, manufacturer and farmer labore*together to meet the requirements. The first machines, being largely constructed of wood, doing fairlygood work in the field, were found to be short-lived, clumsy, and expensive. Gradually,
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