Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1920 — Rann-dom Reels [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rann-dom Reels

THE FARM TRACTOR THE farm tractor is an automobile which is minus the joy rider attachment. Nobody ever tried to take a joy ride on the corrugated iron seat of a modern farm tractor without having his spine caved in farther than the entrance to the grand canyon of Arizona. The mission of the farm tractor is to jerk four 16-lnch stirring plows over a cornfield without showing any spavins, ringbones or other signs of wear and tear. For many years the American farmer was obliged to rely upon the obedient but sway»backed work horse whenever he wanted to plow corn, and whenever the horse became indisposed or short of breath he had to be laid up for repairs and tinkered with by a veterinary surgeon at $2 per tlnk. Every once in a while a horse would die by leaning up against a bolt of lightning or as a result of eating something which was not Intended for his stomach. This made farming almost as expensive as feeding Russian prisoners in Germany. The farm tractor will do the work of six horses when it is hitting on all cylinders. It does not have to be harnessed, hitched up or bedded down, neither does it» stop In the middle of

By HOWARD L. RANN

a furrow on a hot day to remove a blue bottle fly with its rear hoof. It will do any work.there is on the farm except washing dishes and making beds, although these attachments will probably be put on later. Owing to the difficulty of securing horses which will not die in an offhand manner or give ।out at *he knees in the middle of the afternoon, the farm tractor is bound to be more popu-

lt Will Do Any Work There Is on a Farm Except Washing Dishes and Making Beds. lar than the candidate for congress who decides not to run again. It makes life easier for the farmer and sweetens the lot of the petulant hired man, therefore It has come to stay. (Copyright)