Invmena? sums are being spent m America m ranking farm tractors, of which there are now- two hundred types on the market. These tractors ■will solve fch© difficulties of the present shortage of fa.ron labor, and vi.ll do for | acfrictiltur© what the sewing machine has done for textiles. A school at Kansas City for training men and women to handle farm/ tractors was attended by 8000 person* last year. " Thousands of American tra«tor« avo now being sent abroad, and the Ford Company is building -a factory at Cork to turn, them oiit by tens of thousands. A beneficent revohition. in' agriculture is thus taking place unnoticed nmlev our noses, and m ten years time the lovely and immemorial sipht of a , team of giant Tiorses ploughmg the countryside will be as much a. thing of the past- as an illuminated Book of Hours, or a Spinning Jenny worked by the human foot. If you get a chill, take Naiol imme 4 i»sely; it will prevent gor* throat 01 tijhtDfM of tiUfV— I,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14713, 19 September 1918, Page 3
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