- ..THE ORKGOX STATESMAN: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1020.
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TO THE VILLAMETTE VALLEY TO STAY
The Horseless Farm Is Already Here, and the Machine Workers That Never Rest Are
Bound to Increase the Scope of Intensive Agriculture in the Country Surrounding Salem
That the time will come when
practically every ten acre tract de
Toted to intensive cultivation will be
power farmed instead of by the old !
ways, is a prediction that W. II. Pat
terson, Jocal tractor distributor,
claims is bound to come true faster
than most of us are willing to .believe.
The smallest ranch keeping a;
any other power on this particular
place. Did this man have horses he
would have to have more ground to
keep them economically. Also, there
would be times when he would not
need the horses when their cost of
upkeep would go right on. The cost
of feed, where a man has no ground
to devote to raising it. Is too well
known to require discussion.
change of drivers. Here its task is
a ranch of 300 acres.
Another farm handled by a single
Clextrac consists of 114 acres and is
more thoroughly cultivated with the
one machine than it ever was with
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An International tractor near Salem.
tractor, hereabouts, is a 13-acre or-,
chard a short distance from Salem.
The owner has not another foot of
ground bat with the machine is able
to keep the soil of that place at its
very best and manages through the
time sarins; of the machine to devote
some bt the time of himself and bis
outfit to the work of his neighbors.
'.For such a man, contrary to the
belief of some people, the tractor is
a worthwhile investment even did he
I The lecturer in that instance stated
that it was his belief that while most
plowing was calculated to go deeper,
that the limited' power of the team
for hard pulling probably made the
average cut about five Inches instead
of the 8 to H now possible with
the tractor.
Mr. Patterson states that fully feo
per cent of the trouble with tractor
farmers is due to their lack of under
standing of even the first requisites
of a good piece of machinery. The
same men who have for years left
their equipment in the rain and storm
through years, give the tractor the
same treatment. They fall to give it
oil, in most cases, and otherwise do
no observe the most rudimentary
necessities of the machines.
In the case of the Cletrac, this is
being overcome by having a local
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Zivney Bros, find nothing beyond their Fordaon.
the teams and outfits which could do
only so much in a day because of the
endurance of the horses being
limited.
Another phase of the power era
was brought out at the tractor lec-
staff of instructors who are on duty
through 365 days of the year. The
service to help the farmers get "en
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to wander than the Chinese wall ever
was, so long winter nights and use
less days were the; result.
But, worse than all these things
If yon raised any youngsters and
looked forward to the time when with
(But this . modern machine does
more than merely the field work of
the team. Did he want to Irrigate,
the same machine that tilled the
field could be harnessed to pump the
water just as economically on such a
small place.
And from a place of this size the
tractor can go to the other extreme.
At the Ivesley ranch there is a
Cletrac which does what horses could
never do. At the right time of the
tirely sold" on machine farming goes tneir heip you coid uke OB the ad
even xunner man mu ney inviie Molnlnc Efl acres no on the MIL von
them to bring their machines in for nrdfnariw were dU&DDolnted. for if
they ever went out over the road.
Making roads by machinery.
from within ten miles is at the func
tion is nothing.
Friendship and business widen
through Its use.
In central Oregon, where distances
are still great, there have been church
meeting held on the prairie where
almost every rancher from a territory
60 miles in diameter attended.
The aatomobDe gives to the chill
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not care to give time to others, fori year it works 24 hours per aay, stop
it eliminates entirely the horse and j ping only for fuel and oiling and
In the orchard the Cleveland has many friends.
tures at the Commercial Club several
weeks ago. It was demonstrated here
how the tractor, because of its excess
power in the pinches, was able to
plow soil which had not been touched
for 25 years, thus cultivating the
land in a manner heretofore thought
impossible.
To the Farmers, Gardeners and
Fruit (Growers of the
Willamette Valley
We are spending thousands of dollars creatine and
establishing a national market for your produce.
Through our agencies your produce is going into the
homes in every state in the Union: also being exported
to feed the hungry in Europe.
chances were ten to one against you.
They would not follow the life that
you had planned.
Then came the marvel of modern
mechanics the automobile the ser
vant of steel that in a few abort years
made over the most important busi
ness of the land. It completely broke
down the barrier between the farm
and the. best of everything that the
world had to offer In the way of the
comforts and better things of life.
Many of those things, such as the
stores, the best doctors, the schools,
the churches, the educational facil
ities must be where humanity clus
ters to be successful.
Around them towns spring up.
Formerly all these were denied the
farmer except to those who lived
nearest and to others only after some
hardship. Much had to be passed up
because distances and conditions of
travel rere prohibitive.
In Marlon and Polk counties the
Influence of the automobile and the
work in their shops, but the Cle- 8 ,mo,t Plfr
men oversee the Job and give
There
is a
demand for an increase in oroduction.
The orices offered for thir increased production
are the highest ever known. What are you doing to
increase this production? What are vou doing to sup
ply this demand? Are you producing all that vou can
produce? II not will you try to increase your produc
tion? We want vour produce. See us. .
SALEM KING'S PRODUCTS CO.,
SALEM. OREGON
PHONE 830
any service. The farmer can ao nis
own
trac
him what help he needs, but aim to
make the farmer entirely independ
ent of the dealer's shop as rapidly as
possible.
A Broadening Inflaep.ce.
Ask almost any man what has been
the most broadening Influence in
Marion and Polk county farm life and
he probably will not have an answer
ready.
Is it not true that the motor car
coupled with the good roads has at
least established a place for itself
alongside of and Just as, high up as
anything else that can be pointed to
as having a part in the credit for the
change that has come over farm life
In the last few years? v
It has only been a very few years
when the "movie" makers went
down on the farm" whenever they
had to have a real guileless, "take-
me-out-of-this-mad-llfe" sort of per
son. And, if a movie showed any
thing but that as the type that raised
the grub for the country, why it was
branded as "Impossible." He had to
be . that way the public wouldn't
have him any other way, and with
some reason.
Go to a movie today that has a
farmer in it.
Tou notice the change just as cer
tainly as you notice it in traveling
past the fields where he is at work.
In the movie half the farm heroes are
labeled "farm manager," if they are
young. If the story shows the ranch
owner, he's remarkably changed, too.
He may still show that he is not
afraid of work, but to fit the movie
right he'll carry with him an air of
system, business and a new order in
the cultivating of the acre. He is
not at all the man we used to have.
The change has been no greater
than the movies make it out to be,
and the motor car will get much of
the credit for the change. Of course,
there are. other factors. There is the
application of machinery to farming.
There is the tractor and electric light
and all the other things that are
rapidly becoming a part of. the well
ordered farm or ranch. But the
motor car nreceded them and has in
many ways made the other possible.
Farming used to be somewhat of a
humdrum life and no mistake. Espe
cially in the west where distances
were great, you almost had agree
with the wife to become half hermit
It was the kind of a life, very
often, where if you really loved a
girl, you wouldn't ask her to marry
you.
Of course, there were its romantic
phases. There was the "little gray
home In the West" and the gag about
the Vgreat out-of-doors." but, re
duced to sombre facts, farming was
a business of semi-isolation that re
quired some courage and considerable
erery-day New England pluck to
make It go.
J And. speaking of isolation, if you
happened to be a little more out of
the way than some of the others, you
aped the ways of the bear. For a
few short months of tne summer you
could have driven the old horse to
town and otherwise connected with
the outside world but yon didn't,
because summer is the busy time and
you . had other things more urgent.
Then fall came on and you might
have gone to town but didn't, be
cause it "was not being done" in your
neighborhood. The mud was a more
effectual barrier against your desires
In no direction can one travel with
out seeing fine new farm houses. The
houses show plainly that they were
meant to live in and that the owner
has built for his comfort and future.
Of course, the automobile doesn't
nartlcularly enter Into that situation
and. ret. isn't it Just a little bit
true that because of the greater dis
tances, because friends didn't eomoe
out as often then as they do now, be.
cause it didn't mean so much to have
a nice home, the farmer didn't find
the nleasura that he might have in
a home on the farm?
But more easily grasped is -the
greater ooDortunlty that it gave for
community development.
To go to a grange meeting or
social now and find that everyone
1AS0N, EHRMAN & CO.
PACKERS
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Packing Houses Portland, Oregon
Pallets, Oregon
Warehouses Salem, Yamhill, Eu
gene, Medford, Forest Grove, Ore.
DOES NOT ONLY PLOW BUT WILL PLO EVERT WEEK IN THE TEAR.
It will work up the seed bed. pujl the seeder, binder and mower. In tact,
the CLETRAC can do all of the work now done with teams. In cultivating
the orchards, berries and hops you can get close to the trees or Tines, and
it does not pack the soil.
ASK THE USERS
W. H. PATTERSON CO.
DISTRIBUTORS
121 South Commercial KireeC. Balem, Oregon
TANK-TYPE TRACTOR