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more lot feeding with its accompanying good re- 

 sults. 



4th. The use of the best and most improved 

 farm machinery. The best farm tool, whether for 

 plowing, cultivating, or marketing and general 

 purposes, is the one that will do the work in the 

 best manner and in the quickest time, saves horse 

 flesh or other motive power. If a farm tractor for 

 plowing can be installed upon the farm that will 

 do the proper plowing in the proper time and at 

 a reduced expense, or a two-row three-horse cul- 

 tivator can be put in use that saves the labor of 

 one horse, and one man, and yet cultivates the same 

 number of acres in a day, and as well as four horses 

 and two men will cultivate with two two-horse 

 cultivators, it can readily be seen that a farmer 

 makes no mistake in installing upon his farm such 

 machinery, or any other farm machinery of like na- 

 ture, for he not only eliminates cost of operation, 

 but helps to solve the labor problem on the farm. 

 And the installation of labor saving machinery 

 means the conservation of time and human energy, 

 which means much to the farmer, his wife and 

 family and hired help, which helps, not only to 

 eliminate, but to solve many of the problems of 

 farm life, like farm labor, reduced hours for 

 labor, keeping the boy and girl upon the farm, 

 and giving the farmer time for studying his farm 

 problems, and for right and better farm living. 



5th. Better machinery for transportation of 

 farm products and better roads. The wagon and 

 horses have long been and will continue to be the 

 farmer's mode of transporting his products to 

 market, and if the farmer is much removed from 



