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Tonight, let's continue our education in agricultural machinery,

with more from farm engines and how to run them,

the Young Engineers Guide,

A Simple Practical Handbook a simple practical

practical handbook for experts as well as for amateurs fully describing

every part of an engine and boiler, giving full directions for the safe and economical

management of both. Also, several hundred questions and answers often given in examinations for an engineer's license and chapters on farm engine economy with special attention to traction and gasoline farm engines and a chapter on the science of successful thrashing.

By James H. Stevenson and other expert engineers,

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