Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . tractor is being driven from the fieldby smaller and more compact tractors which are finding a place also onthe small farm of 160 acres or less. The Size of Tractors.—A tractor of less than five tractive and ten- 1 Courtesy of Hackney Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, Minn. 756 SUCCESSFUL FARMING belt horse power has no place under average farm conditions on the smallfarm. This size should operate one fourteen-inch or two ten-inch should operate a small threshing machine an
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . tractor is being driven from the fieldby smaller and more compact tractors which are finding a place also onthe small farm of 160 acres or less. The Size of Tractors.—A tractor of less than five tractive and ten- 1 Courtesy of Hackney Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, Minn. 756 SUCCESSFUL FARMING belt horse power has no place under average farm conditions on the smallfarm. This size should operate one fourteen-inch or two ten-inch should operate a small threshing machine and also the small silage cutterfor silos not taller than thirty feet. This size tractor may operate a lineshaft from which power can be secured for pumping, grinding feed, sepa-rating cream, churning, for electric lights and for many other farm opera-tions at one time. In hilly land where irregular fields are sure to be prevalent and rockyledges are very likely to occur, the tractor has little place. As plowingis the biggest job in farm operation, the tractor should in this case have its greatest usefulness. Creeping Grip and should replaceabout one-third of thehorses ordinarily em-ployed upon the generally takesabout one-third lesshorse power to culti-vate, harvest and haulto market the crop ofany farm than it takesto plow and preparethe seed-bed in a thor-ough fashion. Underordinary small farmoperations, the writerbelieves that an 8-16-horse power tractor isthe most economicalsize. Tractor Efficiency.—The tractor has been used for agricultural purposes long enough forthis fact to become well established; where a tractor of repute is employed,more depends upon the intelligence of the tractioner than upon the abilityof the machine to do good work. This does not mean that one has tohave a college training in engineering or to be a master mechanic, but oneshould know the principles upon which a gas engine operates and theintelligent remedy of all diseases to
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