TRACTORS AND HORSES IN THE WINTER WHEAT BELT. 15 
TABLE 17.—Harvesting with binders, headers, and combines and percentage done with 
tractors. 
F | Southern) Western Northern All 
Operation. | area. area. | area. | farms. 
Harvesting with binders: 
PEASE ial Mit WAP ITACLON. 2222.22 - Sot 2 ost =~ = eo -- 106 27 89 76 
eter LArt WHY ROTSCS. = 5. a  - - 2 2 79 19 69 57 
0S aU 2 ee 185 46 158 133 
ceemetarys COME. WHA! LTACLOI..-__._. . 5... - =. -2-.2--- 22-2 -- 57 59 56 57 
Harvesting with headers: 
er aeiaiirt WiAGH LTACLOL = = == o2= 552-2502 222-5-5 sense 2 5 1 66 4 | 21 
ers SCTE atl WILE NOISCS << 322 2-3 oe sesnee ee~ nee ases- 11 226 Bye 84 
Noss es: Si Se | 12 | 292 | 36 | 105 
Percentage done with tractor...............-.- ay See eS | 8 | 2B 11 20 
Harvesting with combines: 
See eepE MEME WWART GTACUONT . = 2. - 5 252522 22-22-2235 18 | 72 2 | 29 
BELT WORK. 
The use of the tractor for belt work does not compete with horse 
labor and should really be considered a separate enterprise, but the 
doing of such work may be the means of making the tractor a profit- 
able investment. As shown in Table 11 the entire 354 tractors were 
used for an average of 26 hours of belt work on the home farm duri 
the year. However, 182 tractors, a little over half of the total, were 
not used for this class of work at all. For the remaining 172, belt 
work amounted to an average of 53 hours for the year. : 
Table 18 shows the number of tractors used for different belt opera- 
tions on the home farm during the year and the average amount of 
time devoted to each operation. In the southern and western areas 
about 40 per cent of the tractors and in the northern area about 
two-thirds of them were used for some belt work. A larger number 
of the tractors were used for threshing than for any other belt opera- 
tion, but only 84, a little less than a fourth of the total number were 
used for this work. 
TaBLe 18.—Number of tractors used for belt work and hours of use per year. 
Southern area. | Western area. | Northern area. All farms. 
Operation. Nine Tioues Misi pos Nini. oes an apes 
ber eae ber apen ber aera ber ae 
used year used year used on used one 
Threst IIT et | 28 81 23 48 33 jl 84 60 
DSSS Deas nie ae Ie) tS AT 14 38 30 18 57 23 
0 a Se ee 4 | 7 4 10 32 28 40 24 
_ SS eee theo 9 8 20 11 33 23 25 
Shred LU oe Dae eee Oe 1 25 10 35 11 | 34 
pumeernnet ee nee 17 15 5 30 15 27 37 22 
Total and average, all belt work. 46 | 62 43 47 83 51 | 172 53 
It is shown in Table 12 that on the average the two-plow tractors 
did not do so much belt work as the three-plow and larger sizes. 
Table 19 shows the number of tractors of Percent sizes which were 
used for belt work in the different areas and the number of hours of 
