. 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. || Sveritt's ]VIaii-V/eigh1j Cultiirator. ! A Cood Idea and what it lias Resulted In. .""BOM THE AGRICULTXTRAL EpITOMIST. Improvement is the order of the day. Scarcely does one valuable invention become thoroughly in'roduced before a jjeater one crowds it out and takes its place. The number of improved devices in man power cultivation lately brought out, induced b
. 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. || Sveritt's ]VIaii-V/eigh1j Cultiirator. ! A Cood Idea and what it lias Resulted In. .""BOM THE AGRICULTXTRAL EpITOMIST. Improvement is the order of the day. Scarcely does one valuable invention become thoroughly in'roduced before a jjeater one crowds it out and takes its place. The number of improved devices in man power cultivation lately brought out, induced by the greatly increased demand for improved tools by truckers and gardeners, have been very numerous. The census reports show that the trucking and market gar- dening business has increased almost 400 per cent, in the past ten years, and factories have sprung up all over the country, devoted to turning out the various tools used by these people, and *\e progress made in this line has reached such a point that but little improvement was possible to be made without it was in an entirely different line. It remained for Mr. J. A. Everitt, the Seedsman, to make this move and originate a new line of manpower, or rather, in this case, 9Iaii-Weight Implement. All the man power cultivating implements heretofore made were propelled by exerting the muscular power of the opera- tor, particularly the hands and arms, and as all who have ever used these machines know, it is very slow, te- dious and tiresome work. Mr. Everitt reasoned as follows: Every person has weight. This weight can be made i»ower, if properly directed; hence a man is constantly ex- erting a force equal to ^ his weigbt, whether he is standing, sitting, ly ing, or in whatever posi tion he may place his body. " A man -weighing 150 pounds is constantly ex- = erting a force of 150 S pounds. As he walks across his fields this force is lost, wasted on the ground. If he pushes one of the old style culti- vators with his han
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