Automobiles Reduce Pacific Coast Harvest Costs

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 8, 1901

Automobiles Reduce Pacific Coast Harvest Costs

THE use of automobiles has so lessened the cost of harvesting wheat on the Pacific Coast, that “a greater amount of grain can be produced at the same actual expense than in the Argentine Republic, where labor costs only a fraction of a dollar a day. The large automobile traction engines, now used in California, are of fifty-horsepower, and are provided with driving wheels sixty inches in diameter. They do the plowing, planting, and harvesting, in their proper seasons. One traction engine performs the triple work of plowing, harrowing, and planting, in one operation.”