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OIL ENGINES FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES. 



In some industries a considerable money value may be placed 

 on that which is comprehensively called " convenience." 

 Generally, this pertains to things which save trouble, economise 

 effort, or in any way save time, and in some manufacturing or 

 business establishments and offices where there is much repetition 

 work, " convenience " may have a direct and measurable value. 



In agricultural matters this is not so often the case, and a new 

 method of performing any given operation must in most cases 

 commend itself on the ground that it performs that operation 

 more cheaply than the old, through cheapness or lessened 

 quantity of materials employed, or lessened total cost of the 

 operation, including labour. 



In some things, however, even in agricultural operations, 

 reduction of time occupied is as important as in any other 

 industry. This is most obvious with the reaping and other 

 machines, which, doing most work in least time, make the most 

 of the clement hours, the duration of which the farmer cannot 

 control. 



Other operations may be more cheaply conducted if they can 

 be carried out at convenient times, />., at times when the labour 

 required is not occupied on other work or cannot be seasonably 

 employed upon it. 



In many of these cases the saving of time may be synony- 

 mous with saving of labour, and, although not at all timcs^ in 

 the year, the saving of labour may be the same thing as saving 

 money, and the saving of time the saving of a market. 



In these cases the command of a ready source of power for 

 farm and dairy purposes is one of the most fruitful sources of 

 economy. The adoption of mechanical means of performing- 

 work becomes more than ever important now that all the world 



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