CHAPTER XI 



POTATO MACHINERY 



DURING the past decade great improvements 

 have been made in agricultural machinery. 

 The up-to-date farmer of to-day is not con- 

 tent with old methods or tools, if there is no better 

 reason for their use than that his father or grand- 

 father used them. Every machine that will do 

 work more cheaply or 'better finds a welcome on 

 the strictly modern business-farmer's place. 



The senior author has been intensely interested 

 in the betterment of machines that will render 

 farm operations more effective. Over forty years 

 ago he made plows and agricultural machinery in 

 a plow factory in Illinois, and appreciates the situ- 

 ation more than one less conversant with the 

 details of the machinery business both from manu- 

 facturer's and user's standpoints. 



It is true of makers of potato machinery that it 

 is their desire to make an implement that will do 

 the greatest possible service for the user, and they 

 welcome suggestions from practical growers for 

 improvements. 



During the past twenty-five years the senior 

 author has been responsible for a great many im- 

 provements to machinery now in use. 



The increasing interest in farm machinery, or 

 farm mechanics, is indicated by the fact that 

 practically all of the leading agricultural colleges 

 now have departments devoted to this subject. 



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