January, 1921 



BETTER FRUIT 



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orchards. It is patent that the day has gone 

 by when S2.50 a barrel yields a handsome rev- 

 enue to the grower, just as the day of 25c apple 

 barrels has past. The local county farm bu- 

 reaus assisted in collecting the data from 

 among the best growers of the territory. Inci- 

 dental to the work of collecting the data, a 

 poll was -taken of 260 growers in the district 

 on what price should be received for Baldwins, 

 "A" grade, to show the grower a fair profit on 

 work and investment. Ninety-seven per cent 

 of the estimates are ?5 a barrel or over with 

 the average §6.62. — The Packer. 



The drift of population from the farms to 

 the cities has recently been progressing more 

 rapidly in Ohio than it has in this state, ac- 

 cording to a survey just completed by \Y. F. 

 Collander of the U. S. Bureau of Crop Esti- 

 mates and the Ohio Bureau of Agricultural 

 Statistics. This survey, which is based on 

 records of from 100 to 300 farms in each 



county, shows that in June this year there 

 were 70,000 men and boys over 15 years of 

 age who were working for wages on the farms 

 of Ohio. The previous year 100,000 men and 

 boys were so employed. This is a decrease of 

 30.000 men, or 30 per cent, a most surprising 

 change for one year. New York State farmers 

 were much disturbed by the shortage of farm 

 labor last spring, but the decrease here was 

 only about 15 per cent. 



The Ohio figures also show that, exclusive of 

 hired men, there were 340,000 men and boys 

 on the farms in June, and 370,000 at the same 

 time last year. This is a decrease of 30,000, 

 or 8 per cent. During the same period the 

 number of vacant habitable houses on farms 

 increased from 18,000 to 29,000, an increase of 

 61 per cent. 



These figures are worth careful study, for 

 they show how quickly men flock to the cities 

 when industrial wages are high. — Sew York 

 State Fruitgrower. 



Pointers on Ordering a Tractor 



(From Tractor Farming) 



IN VIEW of present business condi- 

 tions it is only natural that many 

 farmers who contemplate buying a 

 tractor for 1921 should put off ordering 

 until they have an opportunity to see 

 whether prices will be lower next 

 spring. At first glance this would seem 

 to be the most sensible course to fol- 

 low. Taken altogether, however, it is 

 best to order a tractor now, especially 

 if a guarantee is obtained that if the 

 price is reduced next spring, the amount 

 of reduction will be refunded. 



There are several reasons why it will 

 be better to have the tractor delivered 

 this winter than to wait until time for 

 the spring work to begin. 



Most any tractor owner will say that 

 he failed to get the best possible results 

 from his tractor during the first few 

 weeks' use, because whoever operated 

 it was not thoroughly familiar with the 

 proper care and operation of the outfit. 

 It is, therefore, desirable that the tract- 

 or operator should have an opportunity 

 to familiarize himself with the opera- 

 tion of the machine before the spring 

 rush begins. By having the tractor de- 

 livered now or some time during the 

 winter, it can be used for many odd 

 jobs of belt and drawbar work about 

 the farm or for neighbors. Many of 

 these jobs will be easier on the tractor 

 than will the heavy work of plowing 

 and hence they make an ideal way to 

 "break in" the tractor. 



Most men know better than to take a 

 brand new automobile and drive it full 

 speed for long distances or pull it 

 through long stretches of sand or heavy 

 mud until after it has been "limbered 

 up." Long experience has shown that 

 it pays to drive an automobile slowly 

 and carefully for the first few hundred 

 miles while all bearing parts are wear- 

 ing in and acquiring their polish. This 

 practice is even more desirable for the 

 tractor. Plowing is about the hardest 

 work most tractors are called upon to 

 do, and the new machine should not be 

 put at this work until after it has been 

 run for a number of hours at lighter 

 jobs. 



Cylinder walls, piston rings and other 

 bearing surfaces, no matter how care- 

 fully machined or how fine the "cut" 

 made in machining, n r ? at first slightly 

 rough. If these sur ,ces are well lu- 

 bricated and the engine is run for some 

 time under a light load, they will take a 



high polish with very little wear, and 

 after this polishing or smoothing up is 

 accomplished, the wear will be very 

 slight provided the lubrication is prop- 

 erly looked after. 



The advantages of early delivery, 

 however, are not all confined to the 

 tractor itself. It is highly desirable, as 

 already pointed out, that the operator 

 should be familiar with the care and 

 operation of the machine before the 

 rush season begins. Just as many auto- 

 mobile drivers suffer delays and incon- 

 venience because something does not 

 work just right about their car and 

 they are not familiar enough with it to 

 locate and remedy the trouble, so some 

 tractor owners are delayed on account 

 of minor misadjustments which would 

 be located and remedied in a moment's 

 time by an experienced operator. Even 

 if a man is familiar with automobiles 

 and other gas engines, it will nearly 

 always require some time for him to 

 master fully the proper care and opera- 

 tion of a particular tractor so as to be 

 able to obtain the best possible results. 



Taken all together, the man who or- 

 ders a tractor now has a great deal 

 to gain and nothing to lose, provided he 

 is guaranteed against a reduction in 

 the price of a machine before spring. 

 As everyone knows, transportation is 

 not as swift and certain as could be 

 desired, and delays in delivery are al- 

 ways a possibility when the order is 

 not placed until the working season is 

 about to begin and hundreds of farm- 

 ers are buying tractors. It will he 

 easier to get delivery if an order is 

 placed at once, and if any parts are 

 missing or anything is wrong about 

 the machine which has been overlooked 

 in the inspection and test at the factory, 

 there will be plenty of time to have 

 these things looked after before the 

 tractor is urgently needed. Ordering a 

 tractor is one of the many things which 

 should not be put off when it can be 

 best done today. 



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