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Over Another Threshold 



SOON you will put the calendars of a new year up on 

 your walls. You have weathered the labors of the past 

 four seasons — with what benefits and damages you recall 

 full well. Now the cycle of a new year looms ahead, and we 

 must prepare to gather the fruits of 1921. 



It is a time when conservative manufacturing enterprises 

 and business houses are reviewing the past, taking stock of 

 resources, and building future campaigns. Leaks are 

 stopped, needs are reckoned with, and plans are made with 

 extreme care. 



Winter is the best time in most sections for complete 

 farm inventory, for overhauling machines and making 

 repairs, for accurate reckoning of profit and loss, for plan- 

 ning crop changes, for discarding old habits and considering 

 new methods. 



Every farmer knows this. It is good to see that there is 

 more and more definite planning of full year's work at the 

 close of every December, on the farms of America. It is so 

 easy a matter to slide through the comparative resting 

 period of Winter, and then Spring with its hundred duties 

 bursts forth and finds many important matters and details 

 unattended to. 



We are glad to note this trend toward business-farming 

 because we hope to be allied with Agriculture many more 

 years and because our interests are so closely mingled with 

 the interests of the farming world. So then, while we are 

 setting our own house in order for 1921, we pause to publish 

 the hope that you, the reader, may set forth into a new year 

 of farming enterprise with all plans laid for a most profitable 

 twelve-month. 



International Harvester company 



OF AMERICA 



Billings, Mont. Cheyenne. Wyo. Denver, Colo. Helena, Mo 



Los Angeles, Cal. Portland, Ore. Salt Lake City. Utah 



San Francisco, Cal. Spokane, Wash. 



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V'HEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



