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■April 17, 1915. 
A “STRONG-ARM” ON THE POTATO 
DIGGER. 
(Concluded from page 586.) 
work, the horse still occupies his old po¬ 
sition. except in favored trades, or in 
localities where tractors can do at least 
part of the work. If anyone doubts this 
statement let him go out today and buy 
a team of heavy suitable farm horses. 
These facts about hired help and horses 
have forced a revolution upon many a 
farm. Farmers have been obliged to look 
elsewhere for a strong arm needed to 
develop power in their work. The gaso¬ 
line engine of small size is taking the 
place of the hired man and the extra 
team more and more. The little engines 
have climbed upon the reaper and the 
binder at harvest time. These little fel¬ 
lows of light weight simply pull off their 
coat, cough a little and then reach out 
a steel arm which takes hold of the work¬ 
ing machinery and make it go. This iron 
hired man dismisses at least one team of 
horses. He sits on the binder and does 
the work so that practically all that is 
left for the horse to do is to pull the 
machine forward, without being obliged 
to provide extra power for the working 
parts. As all know, there are many cases 
in wet seasons and on undrained land, 
when it is impossible even for two big 
teams to develop full power with the 
binder or harvester. The machine sinks 
so far into the mud that it cannot oper¬ 
ate its own machinery. The little en¬ 
gine, however, cares nothing for this con¬ 
dition. It just reaches out that strong 
arm and works the machinery as a child 
would wind up a clock. We are frequent¬ 
ly told that these little engines do other 
farming work. They do not remain out¬ 
side, but they step into the house and 
play the part of tireless hired girl, work¬ 
ing with the washing machine, the wring¬ 
er, the vacuum cleaner, the churn, the 
ventilator, and a dozen other things 
which in former years have come out of 
the back and tired shoulders of the 
women folk. 
Now, we have another use for the iron 
hired man. The picture on the first page 
shows a little Cushman engine at work 
upon a potato digger. Those of us who 
have tried to harvest potatoes in a wet 
season, or upon hard and stony ground, 
will realize the tremendous power re¬ 
quired to enable the digger to push that 
great nose through the soil and then 
shake out the dirt, elevate the potatoes 
and leave them in an even streak be¬ 
hind. We have had in our own field 
cases where four big horses could not 
pull this machine for more than 20 min¬ 
utes at a time without taking a rest. 
The little engine, however, takes its place 
on the digger, and as is the case with the 
binder or harvester, reaches out its 
strong arm and does all the work except 
pulling the machine forward. One team 
of large horses in reasonable ground can 
pull the machine forward, about as they 
would a riding plow, but the work of 
lifting the soil, sifting out the stones and 
dirt and dropping the potatoes behind re¬ 
quires even more power than that of pull¬ 
ing the machine. The little engine, weigh¬ 
ing considerably less than the driver, sirs 
firmly at its job, working the machin¬ 
ery as evenly and with much less com¬ 
plaint than the hired man would turn 
the grindstone. After several years' 
trial, this trick of the engine appears to be 
coming in popular use, and it is probably 
one of the best developments thus far in 
ihe use of this power. Various ingenious 
farmers are now going on to devise plans 
for catching the potatoes as they are 
dropped from the digger, so as to avoid 
the extra labor of picking them up. The 
picture shows an arrangement of crates 
for this purpose which is said to work 
fairly well. In other cases a wide float 
like a stone boat attached to the back of 
the digger, is arranged so that a crate 
or box can be put directly under the spout 
down which the* potatoes run. In this 
way the great majority of the tubers are 
dropped directly into these crates and 
only a little labor is required in picking 
up the scattering tubers by hand. This 
> so of the strong arm is as we have said, 
the result of farm development. The 
high price of horses and hired labor has 
forced farmers to hunt for other sources 
<-f power, and they find it in the excel¬ 
lent iron man—the little fellow that eats 
gasoline and does his work without a 
grunt or complaint or without stopping 
o tell stories or to look at the clock. 
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