With our crops

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Part of Farming and Cooperatives

Title
With our crops
Creator
Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Corporation
Language
English
Source
The Farming and Cooperatives II (1) January 1947
Year
1947
Subject
Agricultural machinery--Philippines
Rights
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Abstract
The Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Corporation a government agency,
was conceived and established by President Manuel A. Roxas as a means of accelerating
the systematic mechanization of Philippine agriculture in order thereby to wrest wealth,
abundance, and happiness from the fertile soil of our land .
The AMEC does not only procure tractor and other agricultural machinery for the nation's farmers and agriculturists, nor manufacture the plows and harrows, and
machine spare parts with which to mechanize the farms, and tum up the soil for greater abundance; the AMEC will build among our people the skill, and impart the technical know-how necessary to convert our fields into blooming farms of happiness and plenty, into cherished free-holds of cone tended, peaceful, forward-looking families of Filipinos, secure in their freedoms, vigorous citizens of our "one world".
Fulltext
With Our Crops The health of the nation, and the success and prosperity of the Republic rest mainly on the scientific and far-sighted development of the country's natural resources. particularly agricultural resources ... The Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Corporatio~ a government agency, was conceived and established by President Manuel A. Roxas as a means of accelerating the systematic mechanization of Philippine agriculture in order thereby to wrest wealth, abundance, and happiness from the fertile soil of our land ... The AMEC, in a sense, is a staging base for our ipeople's attack against "our new adversaries,.-bunger, want, economic insecurity, and economic injustice." The AMEC does not only procure tracton and other agricultural machinery for the nation's farmers and agriculturists, nor manufacture the plows and harrows, and machine spare parts with which to mechanize the farms, and tum up the soil for greater abundance; the AMEC will build among our people the skill, and impart the technical know-how necessary to convert our fields into blooming farms of happiness and plenty, into cherished free-holds of cone tended, peaceful, forward-looking families of Filipinos, secure in their freedoms, vigorous citizens of our "one world". Knowledge of machines is the one requisite skill for progress in our time; that knowledge the School for Tractor Mechanics and Operators of Agricultural Machinery of AMEC will impart to our people in the field of Agricultural science and technics. Purpose To train tractor mechanics and drivers of agricultural machinery, in line with the Republic's policy of increasing .the technical skills of the people. Lenlth of Traininl A mininum of three months, with class· room instruction given two to three hours daily except Sundays, and shop and field Dr. MENA C. ESPINOSA Dr. VICTORIA HERNANDEZ DENTIST ROOM • 30! SAMANILLO BLDG. ESCOLTA 14 Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Corporation 220 Tanduay (Nacoco Building) Manila work for five to six hours daily except Sundays. Instruction shall be free, at no cost whatsoever to the trainees. Each trainee will be provided by the school with an allowance daily for cigarettes, matches, etc. For the time being and until the facilities and funds of the school. permit expansion, enrollment will be limited to 100 students selected for fitness and aptitude from among applicants. SCHOOL FOR TRACTOR MECHANICS AND DRIVERS OF AG RI CULTURAL MACHINERY First class to open first week of December, 1946. Tractors-number 1,500 of various horsepower varying from 10-35 b.h.p. to 91-140 b.h.p. Makes-International, Caterpillar, Allis Chalmers, Clark-airborne. Wheel and crawler type. Bull-dozers, angle-dozers, scrapers. Gasoline, kerosene,. diesel. Fann Mechanical EquipmentTractor-drawn plows, mold-board type, dis:: typei tractor-drawn harrows and cultiva· tors, discs, peg-tooth, spike tooth; seeders, furrowers, drills, broadcastersi Harvesters, pumping machinery. COURSE OF STUDY Instructiona. Gas engine principles. b. Liquid and gaseous fuels. c. Carburetion and fuel injections. d. Mixture distribution. e. Valves and valve mechanism. f. Ignition of the Charge. g. Engine Lubrication. h. Engine cooling. i. Engine performance. j. How to start, run, and stop an engine. k. How to drive in different conditions. I. Study of tillage implements. m. Study of seeding machinery. n. Study of Harvesting machinery. Shop and Field Worka. Engine Assembly. b. Carburetion and Fuel Injection "Assembly. c. Ignition Assembly. d. Lubrication and Cooling. e. Overhauling. f. Troubleshooting. g. Field operations with agricultural machinery. ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS 1. Only boys not less than 16 yea1s of age and men not more than SO, in good health end of good character, are eligible for training. 2. Those who have had some training in automobile, tractor, truck and stationary engine driving and operating will be preferred. 3. Applicants for admission must bring credentials and proper recommendations. 4. The applicant must be determined to undergo training until he finishes the course and is competent to become a tractor mechanic and driver of agricultural machi~ nary. FACULTY Dr. Anastacio Teodoro, B. Agr., M.S. Ph. D. (On leave of absence from the Univer sity of the Philippines. Professor end Head, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Physics and Mathematics.) Lecturers and Instructors Pedro Pagsolingan ..... B.S.M.E Bernabe 0. Dacanay B.S.M.E. Jose Romero .... Chief Mechanic Location of School Inside the Pureza (Santa Mesa) compound of the National Development Company, Manila. Director's Offices At the: AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT CORPORATION 220 Tanduay (Nacoco building) Manila RECENT ADVANCES IN SOIL SCIENCE AND PLAN NUTRITION IN THE U.S. By: Ricardo Merfori *-Mostly from actual observations made by the writer in his visits to different universities and institutions in the United States. Presented before the Bureau of Plant Industry Seminar (May, 1946). S. R. SAMSON, M.D. Planned Parenthood; Sex Vigor; Women's Diseases; Rapid Treatment 1n V. D. Surger.v. Complete Phy•iotherapy. EVELYN KOSTER APsisting R-220 Samanillo Bldg., Escolta, Manila 2:00 • 6:00 P.M.
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