The Harvester World: Volume 9, number 2, February 1918

              Bring Your Figures Up to Date

By H. S. Campbell, Special Spreader Salesman
TO BEGIN the new year right, being a machine man, I sat down at home today and picked up a copy of a trade paper which had come in while I was out on the road trying to induce local dealers to put in stock for spring trade— more of those ma¬ chines which make two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. I refer, of course, to our line of ma¬ nure spreaders.
While looking over the trade paper above re¬ ferred to, my eye fell upon an article by a Mr. Taylor, entitled " B a r n - yard Manure and How to Spread it Advantageously.
Why fertilize the barnyard? Manure that is spread either dries and stops fermenting or else leaches into the soil.
At once I forgot it was New Year's
day, and that my time belonged to my family.   I read
with much interest all that had been written on the subject and the facts set forth were good, but I could not but notice many of the arguments were way back when corn was 40c per bushel, oats 28c per bushel, and hay $5.00 a ton. On the same page with this very able article, but having no connection with it, I saw a little squib that took my eye. It read like this: "The chips off the old block are often so lazy they li3 where they fall,"
It struck me that perhaps that might be the reason
none of us machine men took the trouble to bring some
of these experiments, made when prices were as 1 have
mentioned, up to date.
If   proper   use   of   manure
brought so many more bushels
of 40c corn, what is the reason
it will not bring the like results
with $1.26 corn? So, if you will
bear with me a few inoinents,
I will endeavor to bring things
up to a 1918 model.    I will be¬ gin by showing the difference
between the manure spread by
hand   as comijared  with   the
same amount spread by a good
spreader. Note the tables above.
Tlie farmer is patriotic and will move when he sees the reason. Don't try to push him.

Price        .40
CORN
Price $   1.26
Price        .28
OATS
Price        .78
Price      5.00
HAY
Price    25.00
Then let us
( $ 4.80 per
(   1.5.13    "
3.92     "
10.90      "
(      2.00     "
(    10.00     "
follow with
Excuses for not owning a spreader don't go now— since the light-draft narrow-box No. 8's came on the market.
The ortly way to handle manure — direct from the gutter into the spreader.
Value   of Crop Increases — Machine Spreading over Hand Spreading
4.80 per acre  or $192.00  on 40 acres
"      605.20    "     " "      156.80    "     "
436.00   "      " 80.00   "      "      "
"      400.00   "      "      "
Value  of Crop Increases — Machine Spreading over No Manure
8.80 per acre or $   352.00 on 40 acres
 '     1,108.80  "    "      "
"      "       "        201.60   "    "      "
"      "       "       560.40   "    "      " 300.00   "    "
"      "       "     1,500.00   "    "      "
Now, Brother Dealer, doesn't it look well in its 1918 dress suit As a rule there is no one that hates to be behind the time so much as the American fanner. He is lord of all he surveys, and I felt as though those low prices that prevailed some years ago might give him a chill. Now, when our nation is dealing in billions, who wants to think of 40c corn or milk at 60c per hundred pounds? The farmer is done with those
Price        .40  (
CORN            <
Price $ 1.26  (
Price        .28  (
OATS             <
Price        .78  (
Price      5.00 (
HAY,             \
Price    25.00  (
$ 8.80
27.72
5.04
14.01
7.5J
37.50