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Running a cream separator with a small engine. The same engine can be employed for other dairy work and for dozens of other uses on the farm

A traction engine of novel form at work. This machine is one of the many attempts which have been made to supply a small traction engine which can be profitably used upon farms of moderate size. The problem of supplying such a tractor is more difficult than that of a cheap automobile

So varied is the work to be done upon a farm that the engine must be readily movable from one place to another. The photograph shows a small engine which has been mounted upon a truck so that it can be readily shifted about. It has been geared with wheels so that it can be attached to the mower shown, which can be run by a thirteen year old boy and faster than with horses

Above is an installation which shows how a gas engine can be used to drive a conveyor by means of which a wagon can be loaded, or hay or grain stacked and stored. At the left is an engine used to churn butter and pump water at the same time