The nonpartisan leader. [volume], March 08, 1920, Image 13

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ps^Sgman who owns a tractor that devel
'ops 16.horsepower at drive wheel rims
finds himself in a disagreeable situa
i/i^ijtion when, due to degree of grade or
„,^sr«s Character of soil encountered, his ma
yV^ijj^hine stalls. He can not very well
".*v:^fcack up, if plowing, to get a neysr start,
i'iaj, ^^Therefore, the only alternative is to
the plows and leave a blemish in
M^^the plowed fields. What he wants,
i.i ,i:'and what he is bound to have some
t-??V.Ss*iay, is a tractor that will furnish, at
S&rtftAaut for a short time, a considerable
surplus of power to take him up steep
fefs-.grades, through hard spots in lie soil,
iuf ilfvjor both at once.
^orse ^as the ability to produce
'surplus power in large amounts for
short periods. For a moment, while
tugging in the collar, he may pro
,v~ idnce five times the amoufit of energy
Jthaif is expected of him at steady
gwork. Who has not. seen the powerful
§Jtruck horse straining at his load ta
O-figet it up the grade to the unloading
p^^^^platform While doing this the horse
exerting many times" the strength
©w^required of him on the main portion
"^C^of the journey over level streets. The
M/' ^driver who gets stuck on the road or
'L in the street fails for the entire trip,
jW.' -(.^doe to one bad place in the road the
same, is true of the tractor that has
ivlnot-enough excess power, which may
called upon when necessary, to
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Jcarry over the steep grades or through
f§tough hard spots in the sofl.
I ^TRYING TO DEVELOP
.-A BETTER TRACTOR
It is the ambition of progressive
^f^tractor builders of today to produce
^pmachines that, in a degree at least,
'compare with the versatility of the
horse. When the farmer understands
that he can purchase a tractor that
T,,-pforall the working period will develop,
,T l«ay*15 horsepower except for 10 min
y- "liputes when he must have 25 horsepow-
X-er—that is the tractor he will buy and
recommend' to others when he finds
&vhe
can get
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Advantages of Surplus Tractor Power
Be Sure Your Machine Can Climb Steepest Grade and Go
Through Heaviest Soil
H. SWEET
more tractor' experi
ence a man has the more
certain he is that he
needs surplus power to
take him over hard and
unexpected places. The
There is a wide Tange of soil^con-
rdifions
and soft contents. It may take
tj?^y2^40 pounds pull on the level to op
erate a 14-inch plow eight inches deep
in gumbo soil, while the same plow
'may be pulled through sand at the
same depth oh level ground with a
'pull of 336 pounds. Assuming that
the farmer ran from sand to gumbo
5W ^in, the same field, be could not hope toipggg
get through his gumbo with power^^-® BROOD SOW POINTERS
.-sufficient only for the sand or silfeS|gf The brood sow needs variety in her
Sfloam. What he" wants and will have food and exercise. In
some day is the latent pbwer to call
deep, and it would not be wise to build*
a tractor capable of plowing dry gum
bo eight inches deep, if the tractor will'
be used generally on soil much easier
to work.
The resistance which soil sets up
against being ttfrned over by the plow
is determined roughly as follows: The
cross-section of the strip plowed, say
with a 14-inch jilow set eight inches
deep, is 8x14, or 112 square inches of
surface of cross-section multiplied by
the number of pound? pull required
per square inch to move the plow. In
the case of gumbo this is 20 pounds
hence, your problem is 8x14x20, or
2,240 pounds, and for the three-plow
gang the problem is 8x14x20x3, or
6,720 pounds pull. In sand the prob
lem is stated thus: 8x14x3x3, or
1,008. Thus we have 6,720 pounds pull
necessary for passing through gumbo
and 1,008 pounds pull for negotiating
sand. -The entire range between these
figures may be encountered in the
same field of operations, although this
is not probable.
The man who lives in a rolling
country will also find himself con
fronted with a real problem in getting
his tractor to pull a load while going
up hill. A 5 per cent grade, which is
equivalent to 3 degrees, will require
300 pounds additional energy to move
both tractor and plow up hill, assum
ing that the tractor weighs 5,000
pounds and the plows weigh 1,000
pounds. If, then, the user encounters
a heavy Btreak of clay, or even gumbo,
while-going up hill, the need of re
serve power is all the more obvious.
A 10 per cent grade, or 5% degrees,
means that the tractor must generate
600 additional pounds pull at the drive
wheel .rim in order to move forward
and on a 30 per cent grade, or 16%
degrees, the additional load imposed
is 1,800 pounds, or a difference of"
more than 12 horsepower from that
consumed on level ground, traveling
at the average tractor speed. There
fore,'the only conclusion that can be
reached in the application of tractor
power must be able, at least for short
periods of time, to generate a much
greater amount of power than that at
which it is rated.
SCREENINGS FOR SHEEP
.Since sheep thrive better on a va
riety of food, the screenings obtained
from wheat and other grains make a
particularly: good sheep feed. The
weed seedshave about the same com
position as other grain and in addition
have certain properties which the
sheep would miss if fed only one or
two kinds of grain.
exercise.
^nuwheh he strikes the streak of gum- cultural college, under the direction
^lfbo, so that he can go right through of Professor Shepperd, it was found
it without let or hindrance. that sows will readily eat alfalfa hay,
It has been fairly accurately esti- and that when this is fed with a mix
jtgfSmated that it requires 42 horsepower ture of about half barley and half
pull three 14-inch plows eight inches Shorts at the rate of two and one-half
f&lgjfdeep through dry gumbo soil, while to
J^llgypull the same outfit the same depth
through new land or virgin soil con
"iS. Ssumes 10 -horsepower. In medium
•^8fej?heavy clay the amount required is 17
jgpgjghorsepower: light clay, 13 horsepower
"silt loam, eight horsepower, and sand
about seven horsepower. It is plain,
therefore, that the range of power
needed
"is wide, indeed, and that the
successful tractor must be built to
meet this condition, modified to meet
engineering relictions. New soil is,
of course, not plowed eight inches
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