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the farm. The horse aids man but does not supplant 

 him. The gasolene motor may 'do for the farmer 

 what the steam engine could not. The motor is 

 small, light, portable, cheap and easily managed. The 

 tractor is capable of doing the work of two or three 

 teams of horses although it seems that the farmer must 

 still keep a team or two. For the road haul and 

 running to town the motor vehicle is rapidly displacing 

 the old lumber wagon and buggy. There are about 

 three million motor vehicles used on American farms. 

 Of these 150,000 are trucks. The states having most 

 cars on farms are Iowa, Illinois, and Ohio. The states 

 having most trucks on farms are Pennsylvania, New 

 York, and Iowa. In many places gasolene has knocked 

 the picturesque milkmaid off her three-legged stool. 

 A motor will milk a dozen cows at a time and never 

 complain of the chores, and the mechanical milkmaid 

 is more sanitary. The day of the open pail is passing. 

 We may hope to see the man with the hoe supplanted 

 by the man with the Ford. His brow will not slant so 

 much, for the farmer of the future will have to be a 

 high-brow to manage power machinery. 



Where will the fuel come from to run all these new 

 machines? The world's oil-tank is running dry and we 

 are not yet in sight of a new supply. The United 

 States, that was the best endowed, has been most ex- 

 travagant. We have wasted the greater part of our oil 

 and have sold to everybody that would buy. Now, like 

 the foolish virgins, we must ask others for oil and are 

 likely to get the same reply. 



Nobody knows how much petroleum there is left in 



