. Annual catalogue of celebrated trademark seeds and other specialties. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Potatoes Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis. ^^irmm and grardenen. who, with rude hoe and shovel and spade, plod along through life's path- â way with that unsteady gait which some one has called "The Clodhopper's ; It is strange that these men never think; but perhaps they are too weary even to think, for why tiave not some of them thought of an easier way ? But it is well that there are thinking me
. Annual catalogue of celebrated trademark seeds and other specialties. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Potatoes Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis. ^^irmm and grardenen. who, with rude hoe and shovel and spade, plod along through life's path- â way with that unsteady gait which some one has called "The Clodhopper's ; It is strange that these men never think; but perhaps they are too weary even to think, for why tiave not some of them thought of an easier way ? But it is well that there are thinking menâmen from whose minds are envolved ideas which prove a boon to the weary and heavy laden of the world. A gentleman who deals with the <da88 mentioned above, and who, by association, has sought the amelioration of his fellow-men, recently put on his thinking cap and from his fertile brain came forth an invention which brings ease out of labor, pleasure out of pain. He reasoned thus: If a man of, say, 150 ^^^^^^^ potrnds weight is spending 150 pounds of vital energy in digging with hoe and spade, surely the 8ame force applied to some simple mechanism could make the present laborious digging less ~ fatiguing and more profitable. And so as J. A. Everitt looked with sympathy upon his feUow- saan, his ideas took shape, and to think with him ta to act. Action produced the Maii-Weiglit CSnltiTator as shown in the illustration. And : a new picture in the panorama appears. Look at the hearty, upright man lightly running a simple machine! Tired muscles, aching backs and weary Mmbs take vrings and fly away ! Note with what ease the Man-Weigrbt Cultivator performs i its work. The weight of a man's body resting against a simple contrivance is the propeUin; power. It goes between the rows and aroum each plant; it searches out the weeds, loosens the earth and breaks the clods. Seed drills, rollers, lawn mo ers, etc., can be attached and run with greater ease than by hand. Unless the sod
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