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ness of farming profitably the labor problem has to be 

 met. Good farm help is expensive. Poor farm help is 

 more expensive. While farm machinery also is ex- 

 pensive, it is cheaper than hand labor when the farmer 

 has sufficient work to justify the outlay. It is tiresome 



Figure 105. Two Powerful Winches. The one to the left is used 

 for pulling small stumps or roots in the process of clearing land. 

 The rope runs on and off the drum to maintain three or four laps 

 or turns. The winch to the right is used for hoisting well drilling 

 tools or to hang a beef animal. The rope winds on the drum in two 

 layers if necessary. 



to have agricultural writers ding at us about the su- 

 perior acre returns of German farms. German hand- 

 made returns may be greater per acre, but one Ameri- 

 can farmhand, by the use of proper machinery, will 

 produce more food than a whole German family. 



DOG CHURN 



Even the dog works on some farms. A dog is a nui- 

 sance among dairy cattle, but he can be made to earn 

 his salt at churning time. All mechanism in connec- 



