THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1917.
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GET ACQUAINTED
WITH YODR TRACTOR
That's the Only Way You
and Your Machine Will
Get Along Together
Well.
When an automobile dealer sells
a car he sends an expert driver
out to teach the new owner
how to "run it. The expert some
times spends considerable time
for several days : in succession
teaching the owner how to run his
car, and for several weeks afterward
the car is apt to be a pretty constant
visitor at the garage in search of
further information. It is easy to
run into the garage for this informa
tion and for assistance, for the car
is a traveling vehicle and frequently
passes the garage on its daily, trips.
The. dealer does not expect the man
who buys the car, if he has never
driven one before, to start right in
and use it without difficulty, and un
less he is an exceptional dealer he is
glad to furnish the information and
assistance necessary to make his car
give good service.
There is about the same amount
of machinery involved in a tractor
that there is in an automobile, and
the man who" sells the farmer a trac
tor should either go out into the field
and spend some time with the new
owner, as the automobile man does,
or he should satisfy himself that the
new owner is familiar with the use
of self-driven machinery. In the
hands of a man who is not acquainted
with the ways of a motor the best
machine ever made may fail. Man
has not yet learned to make machin
ery foolproof.
One difficulty that confronts the
dealer in tractors in this respect is
that the tractor is not a traveling
machine, as an automobile is. It
itays at home most of the time on
Its owner's place, and is not con
stantly darting in and out of the
nearest town, like the motor car.
This means that a trip to the farm is
necessary every time therej is a les
son to be given, and a consequent
loss of considerable time on the part
of the dealer.
Tractor Something Like Hone
If the tractor is to give the service
It is intended to give, and which it is
entirely capable of giving when prop
erly handled, the nW who buys it
must learn how to operate it without
abusing it and how to' remedy the
small defects that will occur from
time to time. When the horse is
overworked, improperly fed or
poorly cared for he develops ailments
and diseases. Most of these the
farmer knows how to remedy from
experience, or, if he does not happen I
to be able to put his hand on the
proper remedy for the specific trou
ble, one of his neighbors can usually
tell him. This is because the horse
is an ancient institution, and rules
for his care and use have been
handed down from generation to
generation until they are almost sec
ond nature to us.
With the tractor it i3 different. It
is new and its diseases and ailments
are new. We must know how the
machine is made before we know how
to use it properly, or take care of it
properly, or cure it when it devel
ops ailments, just as we must know
something of the construction of the
horse to understand his care.
At the present time there are just
two ways of which we know for the
farmer to learn these facts. One we
have mentioned before at various
times, and that is that the local
dealer who is really "onto his job"
should understand thoroughly the
working and construction of the ma
chine he sells and be sure that he ex
plains carefully and demonstrates
every possible detail to his customers.
This will insure his machines giving
satisfaction.
Another possibility is the tractor
school, where . details of mechanical
operation and instruction are com
prehensively taught When possible
for the man who owns a motor car,
a tractor or an engine of any kind
to take a course in ' one of these
schools, it is an excellent thing.
There is no education a farmer can
give his boy when he has finished the
grade schools that will prove more
valuable to' him than one of these
courses of instruction. ,
In most neighborhoods there is
some young man or boyjwho is in
clined to be especially interested in
mechanics. If he could be given
such instruction he might become of
great value to the whole neighbor
hood by helping the neighbors, acting
as a "machinery surgeon" for a
stated sum per call, and it would be
an excellent way of keeping some of
the bright, intelligent boys away
from the cities, where the love of
machinery is apt to lead them.
High Cost of Ignorance
At all events, when one buys a
tractor1 or any other machine, he
should learn just as much as he pos
sibly Can about operating it. A per
fectly good machine may be ruined
by running it for a time without oil
in some vital part or by allowing a
burr to come off and let something
drop into the moving parts. Not
very long ago a man with whim we
are well acquainted had a loose burr
on his car and it dropped into the
engine. Before he could stop his car
he had suffered damage to it that
cost over $80 to repair. This only
goes to show what neglect and igno
rance of the importance of various
things about a piece of machinery
can do to it.
A man told us recently of his ex
perience in buying , a tractor. His
son has been working in the factory
where this machine was made for
several months and understood its
workings perfectly. "When bought,
put on the farm and given this boy
to run, he handled it perfectly well,
and they found that it was a time-
saver and a money-maker, and now
they would not be without it for any
thing.
Another map told us of buying a
tractor and taking it out to his farm
He did not know much about ma
chinery and no one told him any
thing, and the agent who sold the
tractor was located at some distance
from his farm. There was a slight
defect in the machine, as is occasion
ally found in cars and other machin
ery. Not understanding the tractor,
the man put it right to work without
remedying this defect. It naturally
failed to give satisfaction and the
man who bought it believes that it
is a delusion and a snare and that
any man who buys a tractor is
"stung.,"
Not long ago a farmer, referring
to the green farm hands that have
been sent into the country this year
to try to help supply the deficiency
in farm labor, said: "I wouldn't
trust my team to one of them; they
don't know the first thing about
horses and would soon ruin them."
The same thing applies to a(jy piece
of machinery. If the man who
doesn't know the first thing about it
tries to handle a piece of machinery
he Is pretty likely either to ruin it
or to put into the repair shop. It
is foolish to try to run anything that
works by muscli power or by fuel
power without knowing anything
about it. A steam-driven piece of
machinery may blow up. A motor
driven machine is likely to balk.
"Know thyself" is a good admoni
tion. "Know thy tibctor" is another
one. And while you are learning the
principles of the tractor you are also
learning things that will enable you
to handle intelligently all the other
machines you have on the farm or
may buy to place there in the future.
The day of the motorized farm has
dawned and its sun is already pretty
high. Farm help is scarce, and will be
scarcer and scarcer as the years go on,
and machinery will have to take the
place of men. Already the man who
can operate the tractor, the automo
bile and the stationary engine is in
demand on the farm, and the time is
coming when the farm hand will find
it as necessary to know how to run
these machines as it now is to know
how to handle a team." You can learn
on the new machine you buy if you
want, but it is hard on the machine.
It is cheaper to learn on some other
person's machine and to have a com
petent instructor to show you how
and why.
True Tractor Tales
I have been requested to give you
a short outline of my experiences
with farm tractors. In regard to
this will say that my farm is located
on the flat and side hills adjacent to
a pretty fair-sized river and consists
of gumbo, fill soil and some clay, so
that I have several conditions to work
under.
Several years a'go I purchased a
large portable engine an1 small
thresher to do my own work, but I
soon had a tractor made out of this
engine and it became my first trac
tor. It, of course, was not a prac
tical machine, so six years ago, when
the first very light tractor came out,
I purchased one and used it two
years. I intended to disc, harrow
list, plow and cut my grain, but as a
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success this engine did not prove it
self and gave me considerabletrouble
and I found it too light in power for
my work. It was rated at 10-20 and
had a light four-cylinder engine,
which continually gave trouble.
Four years ago when looking
around for something to better my
self in a tractor way I finally closed
a deal for a 25-50, four-cylinder trac
tor of a standard make and brought
it out in the spring to do my early
work. It is light weight for . its
power, weighing six tons. I put a
five-bottom plow behind it and the
first spring did all my plowing at a
depth of seven inches. In the fall I
did the threshing in fine shape, run
ning both ends of the outfit myself,
and frequently running a half dav
without a stop. Then came the fall
plowing and corn shelling in the win
ter. The next spring I put on three
discs and put the corn ground in ex
cellent shape, and next I rigged up a
hitch and pulled five listers and listed
in all my corn at the rate of thirty
five acres a day.
I have never pulled binders be
cause my big crop is corn, and I
didn't seem to have enough small
grain to pay. It would be a fine
thing where one does have the grain.
This engine has run four years.
This year I returned from the west
later than usual, hitched up the trac
tor and had my com crop in in good
time and the engine worked better
than it ever had. I have never kept
an accurate record of what it costs
to run it, but my repair bill for four
years has been less than $b0, and the
same gears except one small pinion
are still on the engine. It has
never had a bearing taken up in the
motor for two years, and outside of
ignition trouble once in a long while
has practically given no trouble. I
believe I plow tor 75 cents an acre,
and I will say that this engine as now
made burns kerosene successfully
and would cut this cost almost in two.
Besides this, it gets my work done at
the time I want it done when I'm
crowded it works seventeen hours a
day; and, best of all, I'm working my
ground to the depth I want to with
out ruining the horses. The engine
I have, of course, is not perfect, but
it has been a good one, and from my
observations at Fremont and else
where this make is far superior to
anything on the market and I'm well
satisfied. My advice to a farmer
would be to buy a standard tractor
of not too small a power and leave
the freak tractors alone, and see that
the one you buy burns kerosene suc
cessfully and has a perfectly bal
anced motor. Then take care of it
as you would a horse and you will
have a good rig. W. L. Orr, Harri
son County, Iowa.
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