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The Gasoline Traction Engine For General Farm Purposes

By O. M. Fredrich

This article was sent to us by O. M. Fredrich, 131 Parkview Trailer Court, Minot, North Dakota (Mr. Fredrich received permission from the editor, William H. Kircher, of THE FARMER for us to re-print this in our Gas Engine Magazine).

Taken from THE FARMER, Dated November 1, 1907

There has always been a great demand on the farm for more and better labor saving machinery. And, perhaps, no other machine, recently invented, has done so much to take the drudgery out of farm life as has the gasoline engine. Its popularity on the farm becomes evident when we consider how fast it is replacing the other sources of power on the farm.

The first sources of power used on the farm were the old fashioned windmills, tread mills, and horse powers. Then later on, came the steam traction engine and at the present we hav...

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