Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — KEEP TRACTORS BUSY [ARTICLE]

KEEP TRACTORS BUSY

“Help your neighbors” is the keynote of a special appeal to tractor owners issued by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carl Vrooman. “Every farmer who owns a tractor,” he says, “owes it to his country this spring to do all the custom or exchange work he can do without neglecting his own work. Every hour that his tractor would otherwise be idle it ought to be at work helping a neighbor who is behindhand with his plowing or harrowing. Make your outfit work from dawn to dark; make it work all night if you have enough opera-, tors to fill the shifts. The acreage to be harvested this fall hangs on the plow. Don’t let an acre that might otherwise be planted go untllled because your tractor is in the shed. Help your neighbors and thus do your part in strengthening the allied lines on the battle fronts of Eu-