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PRODUCTIVE FARMING 



Tractors for Pulling Other Implements. Farm tractors 

 are frequently used for pulling disk harrows, soil packers, 

 hay wagons (Fig. 246), moving threshing machines, grain 

 binders (Fig. 251), mowers, manure spreaders (Fig. 249), 

 and other implements. They are easily hitched to any 

 implement to be drawn on the farm. They are useful in 

 hauling heavy loads of lumber, logs, commercial fertilizer, 

 grain, etc. They are sometimes used in pulling stumps, 



FIG. 247. Plan for laying out an irregular field for tractor plowing. Throw 

 the furrows toward the center, B ; then plow around the field throwing the furrows 

 from the edges. The corners may be finished with a team if necessary. 



hauling rock, and otherwise clearing land. They may be 

 useful in road work by pulling scrapers, road graders, (Fig. 

 245), scarifiers, and in hauling road materials. 



Operating Stationary Machinery. Since small-sized farm 

 tractors have come into general use they are much used for 

 belt work in operating stationary machines of many kinds. 

 Other gas engines are also much used for sucji purposes. 



Heavy lines of farm work for such power to do are: 

 Threshing grain (Fig. 252), shredding and husking corn, 

 baling hay and straw (Fig. 248), cutting fodder and filling 

 silos (Fig. 250), crushing rock for roads and fields, elevating 

 corn and grain. 



