Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1917 — TRACTOR BIG ASSISTANCE IN FARMING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRACTOR BIG ASSISTANCE IN FARMING

The national farm tractor demonstration at Fremont, Neb., brought home to the thousands of people who attended It the great assistance those machines can render in farming. They will be of vital importance in speeding up the production of foodstuffs now that the burden of helping feed our allies rests on the.farmers of America besides that of feeding ourown people at home and our soldiers fighting abroad. _ The tractors at this show did everything that horses can do on a farm and they did it better and faster. One tractor pulled three plows with ease, another performed the operation of disking and sowing the seed at. the same operation. Still another, driven with lines like a horse, drew a binder. The one shown in this photograph is pulling the disks and harrowing the ground at the same operation. America has got to increase her production of food to insure victory. The use of machines like this tractor is an important means to that end.

TRACTIRS DID EVERYTHING HORSE CAN DO.