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CHAPTER XLIII. 



TOOLS FOR THE FARM. 



Since publishing our first manual in 1901, we have 

 been asked many times for a list of the implements we 

 consider best adapted to general farming on the prairie of 

 the great semi-arid belt. This, we realize, is a delicate 

 subject on which to give advice, therefore, we simply give 

 a list of such tools as we bought for the Pomeroy Model 

 Farm at Hill City, the Burlington Model farm at Holdredge 

 and for other farms. 



For ordinary sized farms we have four-horse tools, or 

 larger, as far as it is possible. To decrease the cost of 

 production adds profits, the same as to increase the yield. 

 When one man can turn over two fourteen-inch furrows 

 or twenty-eight inches by driving four horses instead of 

 sixteen inches by driving three horses, you are not only 

 decreasing the cost of plowing over thirty per cent, but are 

 getting a field plowed in six days that would take ten days 

 with the sixteen inch plow. This is an advantage in many 

 ways and what is true of plowing is proportionately true 

 of all other farm work. 



The following tools make a very complete outfit for 

 four good heavy work horses, and with these horses and 

 tools eighty to one hundred acres can be handled by our 

 plan on the high level priries of the more arid portions of 

 ill 1 semi-arid belt where the soils are of the usual sand- 

 Ion in formation. 



