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TRACTOR TALK

By Charlie Harrison

Route 3, Fredericktown, Ohio 43019

I saw your notice in the last Iron-Men Album that you are starting a new magazine devoted to gas engines only.

First, I want to wish you success with it, and if it is as good as the ALBUM, everyone will be more than pleased.

I like steam engines better than tractors for threshing and sawing and can remember hearing people say when tractors first came out-("He can't thresh, he has a tractor".)-and there was a lot of truth in those words, mainly because in nearly every case when the salesman sold tractors, they would sell the customer too small a tractor to pull his thresher. Most of them were terribly overloaded nearly all the time and no gasoline engine will stand logging, so the results were disappointing. There were break-downs, green stacks because some thresherman took out some concaves to make their machi...

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