TM FRIDAYSEPTEMBER 26, 1924

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Tractor Plows Fields Without Direction

The automatic plow in action

By Central Press

^AMES, la. A machine which, if placed in general use, is expected to infinitely reduce the farmer's labor has been found to be a suc­ cess in tests by the agricultural engineering department of Iowa State Collage here.Jt is an automatic plow. All

thff farmer has to do is to wind it up, so to speak, supply it with gasoline, and start it out upon the expanse of the field to he plowed. IVLwtll work all day, or all night, or as long as the gasoline holds

The man4ess plow is the inven­ tion of Prof. J. B. Davidson, head of the agricultural engineering de­ partment of the state college. It was constructed by Darrell I). Lucas and Edward D. Gordon, stu­ dents of the Institut'on, under the

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The machine is a two-wheel tractor, powered by a 4-horse- power single-cylinder engiiy, with right- and left-hand plow bottoms attached to the frame with beams opposite and nearly at right angles to the tractor axle, and so placed

the other is carried above the surface of the soil.

The machine is steered by hand Cor the initial furrow. Then the plow guides itself automatically, traveling back and forth across the field jn shuttle style.

A reversing arm or antenna hangs over the tractor and ex­ tends out some distance beyond the machine' in each direction, which upon coming in contact with the boundary fence, reverses the direction or the drivers. The reaction immediately lifts the plow In service out of the soil and auto­ matically swings the opposite plow into the ground. Thin action takes

place smoothly and positively. Field Must Be Rectangular

Should, for any cause, the .,.-- chine leave the furrow and start across the field in an irregular " rection, a small wheel comes contact with the ground as i as the machine leaves the fur. _ and automatically cuts- off the ig­ nition, halting the motor.

The device has been working al summer on the fields of the lowi school, and has been found to be i complete success.

It is imperative, however, tha, fields to be plowed be of rectangu­ lar shape and with fence barrie in order to operate the machi without the attention of hum; hands. Not all farms are so a ranged as to uti!iz£ the manle plow, but n large proportion c: do so.

Prof. Davidson says that the a nual plowing bill of the United States is $160,000.000. Automati plows, he thinks, can cut thi expense in half.

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"Well. I never!" exclaimed Billy Whiskers to himself, as he stood gazing; at the picture of a bis

hite bllly-Koat on a poster bc- ire n moving picture show. "That

soat looks enough like me to lie Hut T would not care to be

in his place with a bulldog as clous-looking as that one about

to fly at my throat; Wish I ould read, as then I could tell irhat the picture is all about. But rtmtever it is about, it must be

solng on now Inside this theatre, >y the way the people are crowd- ng into it. Ouess I'll follow them md find out."

Butt. OfficerRight at this moment the crowd

had thinned and there was no one >efore the door but the man who ook the tickets and a policeman. So Billy walked boldly up to the door and was half through it be-

the man noticed him. The ticket man threw up his hands in

or, while the policeman save Billy a whack on his back with his policeman's ftub. In a second Billy had wheeled and butted him away out into the street.

There! Take that for hitting a poor, unoffending goat!" thought Billy, and ho quietly turned and alkcd into the theatre. The ticket lan allowed him to pass without

trying <m stop him, after seeing him butt the. policeman.

nee inside the theatre. Billy found himself in what seemed to him to be a pitch dark room, but

n hia eyes became accustomed to the darkness and he saw a

owd of people sitting in the great lorn. But what attracted his at­

tention most was a terrible fight progress up on a stage, where was light enough for him to all that went on.-

Bless my soul, but that .is a brave fight that good-looking goat

putting up against that brute of a dog! Yes, and he is too plucky to give in, thoogli all the oddn are against him! He has only his horns to protect him against that ti-ong brute of a dog with a jaw-

filled with sharp, white teeth hich, once snapped shut on him, ould never open, unless pried

apart,' until his victim was dead. Well, we'll see! I shall not stand

) and watch such a degi-adlns performance, if these, people do! I pride myself that I know ,-T little-

bout fighting, too. I will jump p on that stage and give" that dog butt or two from the rear that

/ill surprise him some, 1 am thinking."

He Butts Picture With these thoughts in his mind

Hilly ran down the middle aisle, umped on one of the vacant front icats, and with a bound cleared the heads of the playing musicians and butted and hooked the picture tiog, which he thought was a real [log, he was so wrought up with excitement.

He Is PuzzledHang! went Billy's head against

he canvas,-and Rip! went his lorns through it, leaving the cor- iers trailing and with two large icles in it whoi-e his horns had » creed it clear.' through. For a noment his horns stuck and he ould not pull his head out, but ,nly for a moment. Then he gave lis head a twist and out tlv-y ame. But lie thought someone vast holding a sheet up so he could

not get at the dog. He drew back and with a mighty spring forwnn he jumped clear through the can- vas, leaving n great hole hehlm

Of course by this time there was

People laughed and children erietl with fright, while Billy faced tin most surprised group you ever saw for he had landed In the midst ol four or five men who were behind the scenes quietly eating theii lunches while the picture was be­ ing run off.

Gets Some Food if course It was rather astound­

ing to have a billy-goat land in their midst right through the screen. And he looked so much like the hilly in the picture that for a second they felt the picture

nlng away from the bulldog.After Billy landed he stood still

for a moment or two to get his bearings. Then, coming to and

jelng a nice red apple, a sand­ wich or .two and several dough­ nuts that .the men had' dropped in their excitement, he proceeded t eat them up one after the othf as fast as he could.

"Here, you big. good-for-nothing _.-eaturo!" called one of the meri "You stop eating my lunch!"

"And mine, too," cried anothei while a third grabbed him by th- horns and tried to drag him awa> frofh the pile of doughnuts he had just begun to cat. But to no pur­ pose. Billy simply spread his leg apart and went on eating thos. doughnuts. This made the mei angry, and they all pitched 01

stubby little tail. At last tl dragged him from the room a pushed him out Into a little back vard, where they left him to him­ self.

Meet* a Pony"Ha! Ha!" laughed Billy. "

played a pretty good joke on thos men, and I got a good luncheo besides. Whoever made thos doughnuts knows how to cook, can tell you! I never ate bettei and I have eaten lots of them be­ fore."

"Oh. you have, have you?" whin­ nied a tiny Shetland pony Bills had not noticed before, from tl other side of the yard.

"Yes. I 'have. But how did you come here?" said Billy Whiskers

"I live here most o'f the time. 1 should think that Is i* question I should ask you, not you me."

"You are quite right. And as I have taken an Instantaneous liking to you. I will answer. Othei-wi I would tell you to mind your o\yn business. ' But before I recount how I came hero, I wish you woul tell me ho* old you are, for i size you are the smallest animal that resembles a horse I ev saw, and yet your voice sounds t old to belong to a baby lion Besides, you are too well propor­ tioned to be a colt, for they all legs."

"I will gladly tell you. I advertised on the circus bills being the smallest perfectly shaped

orse or Shetland pony in tl orld today. I' measure less i

height that a year-old colt or St. Bernard dog. And if you will .elieve me, I am twenty-five yet id. That is considered an old a

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been taught tricks fvcr since I was knee high ti> a grasshopper I have Ijeen on exhibit from tin Atlantic to the Pacific nronn and from the dulf of Mexico In tin Borders of the Ait-tic circlf."

"I ean see that wt- will become

common lo talk over," said Hilly. "I have traveled some myself and

i tin exhibit In circuses many, i.v times. Hut I always grow

tired of traveling around with them and run-away."

"I have tried running away, too," said the llttlo pony, "hut I am al­

ight and brought hack. My lees are too short to run fast.

d beadles, I am not a good fighter. All I eiin do is lo bite and kick, wh lo you can Initt and 'ight with your horns."

"How comes It that you are ihut in this stuffy little back yard?" asked Billy.

Tells of Movie"1 will tell you. I belong to n

oupe of trained animals that at

I'er at the bin Kmmanenn Mov­ ing Picture Studios, a couple of

from here. The animals are performing and a moving picture is being taken of them just the same as if they were, people. There is a film or two of our perform-

einK shown now at this place. A bis goat that looks enough like you to-be your brother and a fierce bulldog are being thrown on the screen right now. If you had looked you would have seen them as you

That's the way it is! Yes, I did see them as 1 passed through, and 1 did not only see them on the screen but I literally did pass through them!"

"What do you mean by saying you literally did pass throuKh them?"

]Next time Billy explains what ho did in the picture show.[

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