Soil culture and modern farm methods . n crop. It is hardlyprofitable to have a tractor that pulls less than three bottoms underordinary conditions and two bottoms under adverse conditions. Atractor that will pull three plows is too cumbersome and the cost ofmaintenance too great to plant and cultivate corn, run a mower, hayrake, harrow or ordinary-sized grain drill; hence, farmers will eventuallyfind it to their advantage to have two sizes, just as they have two typesof horses—one to do the heavy work and the other for light road work. Deere & Company has devised a light tractor which promise
Soil culture and modern farm methods . n crop. It is hardlyprofitable to have a tractor that pulls less than three bottoms underordinary conditions and two bottoms under adverse conditions. Atractor that will pull three plows is too cumbersome and the cost ofmaintenance too great to plant and cultivate corn, run a mower, hayrake, harrow or ordinary-sized grain drill; hence, farmers will eventuallyfind it to their advantage to have two sizes, just as they have two typesof horses—one to do the heavy work and the other for light road work. Deere & Company has devised a light tractor which promises to fill agap and absolutely revolutionize the motive power on the farm. Thistractor, called the Tractivator, is light, strong in construction, andfree of intricate mechanism and easily broken parts. In operation, it isas easy to handle as a Ford car and can be operated at a minimum has two speeds, and can be operated forward or backward. It is sodevised that as short a turn can be made with it as with a team of IMPORTANT NOTICE The great demand for materials of all kinds, due to thewar, makes it unwise to enter new fields of manufacture atthis time. Therefore, the offering of the Tractivator tothe public has been postponed for the present. In cultivating corn, the Tractivator is a marvel. The motor isattached to the rear of the frame with a flexible connection. Theoperator sits on the cultivator and operates it with his feet or hands inthe same way that he would operate the implement if drawn by operator is not obliged to give any attention whatever to the motor,but steers the cultivator, and the tractor takes cares of itself. Theoperator can run close to the hill and dodge irregular hills more easilythan with a horse-drawn implement. In plowing eighty acres of cornlast year with an experimental machine, as much work was done with itin two days (counting the same number of hours) as two horses could doin three days. It has the advantage over hors
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