Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — Name It. [ARTICLE]

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Shall the man or the woman Who operates a tractor he known as a tractorator. a tractorist or a tractioneer’ That is a question an answer to which Is desired by large numbers of students at the tractor schools now being established Tn various parts of the United States. Tractor operations have been carried on in a somewhat hit-or-miss fashion thus far. hut now the industry is being stabilized and permanent terms of expression a*-e needed. Farming, in its relation to tractors, haS apparently been set forward a good ten years by the war. Tractor production has outstripped the training of operators. Every farm bov was brought up to manage a horse, but this big steely beast must he handled in quite a different way. State tractor schools provide a short cut for turning out tractor operators, whatever they are to be called.—Christian Science Monitor.