Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1918 — To Aid Man Power. [ARTICLE]

To Aid Man Power.

Prof. G. I. Christie, assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Houston, recently pointed out some striking illustrations of how the available labor supply could be used to much better advantage if supplemented by machinery ; of how some labor is not fully utilized because machinery is not used. On one farm in the corn belt he saw two strong men, each with a team of horses and a single moldboard plow, following each other around, the field. On an adjoining farm a seven-teen-year-old boy, driving four horses to a two-furrow plow, was doing as much and better work. On one farm two men with two horses to a wagon were spreading manure with forks. On an adjoining farm one man with three horses to a manure spreader was accomplishing a larger amount of work in a more efficient way. For lack of proper machinery the labor of one of the men plowing and one of the men scattering manure was thrown away. Professor Christie points out that during the rest of the season farmers can handle their work with a materially .reduced number of men if they %vail themselves of such things as the double cutaway harrow, wide cutter bar of mower and binder, sheaf carrier on the grain harvester, tractor, haying tools, milking machine.