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ought to be forever barred. It is dangerous to venture out on the roads 

 with a team on Sunday, — St. Louis county. 



The people of this community are slowly learning the good of clover 

 and manure spreaders. — Grundy county. 



Automobiles and otlier modern improvements are of recent date, 

 but all are coming to the front very fast, jOne thing that has kept the 

 farmer from buying more autos has been the bad roads a part of the 

 year, but this difficulty has almost been overcome. — Mercer county. 



So far as the man on the farm is concerned, give him good, fertile 

 soil, good roads and an automobile, and he "has no kick coming" on 

 other conditions. — Jackson county. 



Manure spreaders are taking well in this part, but as yet no one 

 has an automobile. — Benton county. 



A few farmers are buying automobiles, but many more are buy- 

 ing manure spreaders. — Jasper county. 



KIND AND COST OF EQUIPMENT, 



One piece of machinery does so much more now that it is actually 

 cheaper. — Macon county. 



Machinery is no higher except farm wagons. Horses and harness 

 100 per cent, higher. — Ralls county. 



It takes more machinery to farm now tlian it did 10 years ago. — 

 Scotland county. 



The reason it takes so much more machinery is lack of farm hands, 

 and machinery has advanced in the past two years ten to fifteen per cent. 

 Farmers have to have so much more machinery to do their work, — St. 

 Francois county. 



Most everything once was cradle, scythe, double-shovel, hoe and 

 wagon. Now we use modern conveniences in 75 per cent, of cases. — 

 Texas county. 



It has been but few years since we had only a yoke of oxen and a 

 bull tongue plow. — Oregon county. 



Ten years ago not more than one-half of the farmers owned wagons, 

 and about five per cent, owned spring wagons or buggies. Now all have 

 wagons, and 75 per cent, have buggies. While horses are much better 

 and many farmers have modern machinery. — Howell county. 



The cost of farming, in the way of labor and teams, has almost 

 doubled in the last ten years. Machinery has advanced but little, though 

 the farmers are using more and better machinery than they did ten 

 years ago. — Pike county. 



