March 25, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



21 



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Floyd R. rodd 



(Right) 



Vice-President 

 Deere & Company 



Moline, III. 



Twenty years ago a manure spreader factory 

 Syracuse, New York, faced failure. Its volume 

 sales had decreased to a chilly trickle. Its original 

 capital of $100,000, with which it had started in busi- 

 ness fourteen years previously to introduce and de- 

 velop its product, had shrunk to almost nothing. All 

 that kept the business from being liquidated was the 

 fact that the guarantors of the company's paper would 

 not only have to lose the original investment, but would 

 also have to pay numerous debts. 



In this crisis the company sought more aggressive 

 leadership for its sales promotion, and approached 

 Floyd R. Todd with its proposition. 



(.Continued on page 22) 



J. B. Bartholomew 



(Left) 



President 

 Avery Company, Inc. 



Peoria, III. 



If ever a man was fitted for a position by natural 

 aptitude and long training J. B. Bartholomew is fitted 

 for the presidency of the Avery Company of Peoria, 

 III. He literally began his career from the ground 

 up and it is from this solid basis that he has risen to 

 be one of the best known tractor and motor farming 

 machinery inventors and builders in the .country. He 

 knows every phase of tractor use and manufacture and 

 his thorough mastery of his chosen field of labor is 

 acknowledged by the members of the implement and 

 tractor industries in the esteem, confidence and per- 

 sonal leadership which they accord him. 



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