Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1911 — Will Install Tractor Plow On Jasper County Farm. [ARTICLE]

Will Install Tractor Plow On Jasper County Farm.

C. F. Mansfield, who is the owner of 400 acres in Jasper county, is going to make it one of the fine farms iu this part of Indiana, and he is probably giving its Improvement more study and sonsideration than any~Qther owner of Jasper county soil. Mr. Mansfield is an attorney and is deeply interested in the development of agricultural condtions. His farm is southeast of Rensselaer and is occupied by John P. Walters, a good farmer*. Mr. Mansfield a few months ago began the study of alfalfa, with the result of bringing a Purdue expert here to analyze his soil to see what is needed to make it suitable for alfalfa. This fall he will put out 100 acres of that product, first properly inoculating the soil. This week he will receive here a 45-horse power Avery tractor with full equipment for plowing, discing, harrowing, seeding, etc. He already given the tractor a try-out in Illinois and is convinced that it is practical on a no greater acreage than his Jasper county farm. The tractor will readily puli three plows and harrows at the same time, or a double disc and harrows. It can also be used for corn shelling, general farm grinding, wood sawing, etc., and Is equipped with wagon bed, etc., for hauling. One hundred and fifty bushels of wheat can be carried in the bed and five tons of baled hay can be moved along at a rate of ten or twelve miles an hour. The cost of •J; ■*«»• a motor engine of this sort is about 62,600.

Mr. Mansfield says that we do not farm thoroughly enough in this county and believes that all Jasper county people should get busy with the study of advanced farming and help push the county into a higher agricultural standing. He has one other objection to our people. He says there are too many knockers in Rensselaer and that when a qtranger comes in here to look at land, there is nearly always some one to hand a black eye to everything discussed. He thinks everyone should be a booster and he is taking the lead in a very important matter. His tractor will be watched with a great deal of interest.

H. L. King and wife, Ann H. Rudy and J. Louis Gaebel, of Henderson, Ky., were again guests at the Makeever house a few days ago. They were returning from their auto trip to Chicago and the north, and when they reachca Crown Point, they ran into a rig and caused a little damage. The owner Of the rig telephoned' to Rensselaer and had Mr. King placed under arrest. He finally settled by the payment of 610, but the other fellow wanted 625 mighty badly. For any pain, from top to toe, from any cause, apply Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil. Pain can’t stay where it Is used.