TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1920.
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1 TRACTOR TAKES PLACE AS STRONG, ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN OREGON FARMING j
Efficiency and Many-Sided Usefulness of Modern Gasoline Agency for Tilling Soil, Hauling All Manner of Things and Driving Threshers Has Attracted Wide Attention Throughout State and Is Being Extensively Used. j
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AS REGISTRATION for licenses ia
not required for tractors, no
figures are available as to the
number of them in Oregon. But it is
considerable. The tractor has become
trated in the case ol plowing, when
it hauls the plows. It can be used
just as handily to haul other farm
machinery from place to place, or to
haul wagons loaded with. wood from
the woodlot to the house, ois-any other
A very essential part of the equipment hauling Job that a horse could
Of the up-to-date farmer. Every pro
gressive farmer, it can b said, who
does not already own a tractor is
looking forward to the time when he
Can own one.
Its use with belt is illustrated in the
case of threshing, when" a belt from
the tractor operates the threshing
machine.
There are literally a thousand and
one ways about the farm in which
The reason for this, is the efficiency .the power of such a tractor may be
and many-sided usefulness of the used on the belt. As many different
modern tractor, which is quite a re- ?l fX tae Iarmer was oDiigea to turn to the farms that the present trend toward
cent development of the gasoline age. , " wood It can run a pump ,h tM lractor provea ltselr -h. tractor is being especially mani-
The tractor idea is not new but it Baw,ng up tyi 1 on the OD- fested. And while good old Dobbin
The tractor mea is not new, but Its and many other things. And in doing In tne great wheat country of east- will never auite be banished from the
Application to small, economical, flex- this work, the tractor requires no spe- ern Oregon where the ranches are farms the use of tractors is more and
ible units, adapted to the smaller clal attention. I ; do.. .not .at It. hJ thousands of acres in extent, use of m Mrt?.n"hta work
farms. Is an evolution of the past of in sthe bar on aavB hen weather Dls tractors is not new. For a good ing returns to the farmer
tew years. conditions will not permit work to be many years these huge machines have But farming is only one of the
- The early tractors were lr fculk-r d?n,e." requires is reasonable been used over there to do the plow. varied U8es of the power tractor. It
. me early tractors were large, bulky, shelter from wet weather and oil and lng. the harrowing, the seeding and is used in Oregon in logging, in lum-
- """ me narvestinsr. some or tne ranches
xne remarKaDie versatility ul ino
which move forward within and
upon an endless track laid by the
tractor itself. Each of these types is
better fitted for some kinds of work
than for others. And there is a size
of tractor in each type for the needs
of every farmer, from the one with
30,000 acres to the one with 50 or 100.
As in the case of the motor truck,
it really .required the war to bring
the tractor into its own. During the
war the shortage in man power, so
especially acute on the Ifarms, ushered
in the era of power farming generally.
Unable to obtain hands to help him.
the farmer was obliged to turn to the
tractor. And the tractor proved itself
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day, do several times the work that a tor road outfits Is Lane, which Is fit is especially complete. There the roads that are to be rerolled, but haul
crew of 20 men was able to do before, noted for its good roads, Multnomah tractors not only tow road machinery trains of gravel wagons with ma
Amone the counties with surh trac- and Columbia. The Lane county out- which scarifies macadam or gravel terial for rebuildinc roads that need it.
erated by steam. They were traction
engines rather than tractors. They
were costly to operate and required
the attendance of an expert engineer.
Katurally they came few and far be
tween. One euch traction engine would
'do a whole farming community, mov
ing from farm to farm as required
in the threshing season, about the
only time it was ever employed.
' The modern successors of these
early tractors, now almost universally 'automobile.
tractor is one of the main reasons for
its so greatly increasing popularity.
Its use is not seasonal. When there
is no plowing to be done or no thresh
ing, it can be operated at something
else. There is no reason why a tractor
investment should lie idle at any time,
for the equipment is there to be used,
and its use requires -no expert skill.
The tractor of today has been made
even more nearly foolproof than the
hftHn?- In Tiaiil(ner anrt In nari lrnrlr.
have whole batteries of them. They The progressive counties of the state
make the profitable operation of the now have their tractor roadbuilding
big ranches possible. equipment which, with as few as three
It is on the medium-sized and smaller or four men In a crew, will, in one
operated by internal combustion in
stead of by steam engines, still have
their field, which is a most import
ant one. But it is the field of ihe
big ranches, thousands of acres in
extent. There has come into general
use in the past two or three years
only, a much smaller type of gasoline,
distillate or kerosene-burning tractor,
designed and built especially for the
small farmer. It is this type that Is
bo fast bringing about the era of
power farming in Oregon and other
etates.
A tractor of this type will have
power sufficient to haul from two to
four gang plows, according to the
ize of the tractor. But the actual
work of plowing or harrowing Is only
a very small part of what it can and
does do. Its versatility is practically
unlimited.
Operation la Simple..
' To start it requires no long wait
to get up steam, no mechanical ex
pert at the throttle and no quart
or two of oats. It is as simple in op
eration as an automobile and more
economical. It has two modes of op
eration one by direct drawbar pull,
the other by belt.
The direct drawbar pull Is illus-
Farmer Learns Value.
The Oregon farmer Is rapidly learn
ing the value of the tractor as part
of his equipment. This is illustrated
not only by the increasing number of
tractors the traveler through the
state by train or "automobile will see
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I AREA EMBRACED IV CORPO- S
KATE LIMITS OK PORTLAND.
i Land area, including water I
area, square miles 66.36
I Water area, square miles.. 5
Harbor frontage, miles. . . .25.62
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on the farms, but by the vastly in
creased demand for them on firms
dealing in tractors. Most of the prin
cipal makes of tractors, both large
and small ones, are represented in
Portland.
The- main problem for the farmer
about to buy a tractor is to select the
one best fitted for his own peculiar
needs. Generally speaking, there are
two main types of tractors: the trac
tion wheel type, which obtain traction
direct from the driving wheels and the
tracklaying type, the driving wheels
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