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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



New Cleveland Motor Tractor 



The latest development in the motor tractor 

 industry is the product of the Cleveland Motor Plow 

 Company at Cleveland. This machine is a popular 

 priced farm tractor designed along new lines and 

 embodies a great many new ideas in farm tractor 

 construction. 



Rollin H. White, founder of the White Motor 

 Car Company and a recognized authority on com- 

 mercial vehicle construction, and C. A. Hawkins, 

 one of the best known automobile men in the United 

 States, worked for several years perfecting the new 

 tractor and are now planning to place this machine 

 on the market in every country in the world. 



Two of the most interesting features of the 

 Cleveland Tractor are the fact that it is steered by 

 the power of the engine and that it is similar in de- 

 sign to the famous "British Tanks," using the steer- 

 ing wheel merely to indicate the direction that it is 

 desired to take. Therefore, it is easy to operate, 

 and has a spring suspension so designed as to make 

 it flexible, to admit of the tracks following uneven 

 ground, each side being counterbalanced by the 

 other side on the cantilever principle. 



It does the work of 14 horses, costs less than 

 four, takes up less room and requires less care than 

 one, and will do one hundred kinds of stationary 

 work not possible with horses. It is 50 inches wide, 

 52 inches high, and 8 feet long. 



It has effective traction for pulling. The outfit 

 runs on a track, therefore will last longer, whether 

 in sand, mud, plowed ground or on paved roads. 

 One-third of engine power being sufficient to run 

 the outfit, two-thirds is delivered to the drawbar. 



The track on each side is 50 inches in length 

 by 6 inches wide of the tread on the ground, making 

 a total of 100 inches in length of tread and 600 

 square inches on the ground. 



It has a sixteen horsepower motor and can 

 develop enough power to work on any kind of road 

 or grounds. The average amount of fuel consumed 

 by this plow per acre is \ l /> gallons. It is claimed 

 by the manufacturers that this 16-24 horse power 

 tractor is sufficiently large for the farmer to buy 

 who has a farm large enough to need a tractor at all 

 and that its economy will prove the value of its 

 efficiency. 



This machine can operate on public roads, 

 wooden floors, or plowed ground with equal facility. 

 Plowing speed is 3 1 /;; miles per hour, 8-12 acres per 

 day. Will pull 3 14-inch plows under favorable con- 

 ditions, and two under the very worst conditions. 



The Cleveland Motor Plow Company, the manu- 

 facturers of this tractor, are making extra factory 

 facilities for turning out this machine in large num- 

 bers. The fact that they are popular priced indicates 

 the quantity demand for such types of machines. 



SWEET CLOVER: A FERTILIZER 



The most of our western lands have been pro- 

 duced under arid or semi-arid conditions. Conse- 

 quently, most of them are low in organic matter 

 (vegetable matter). These same soils are usually 

 rich in mineral matter. In order to get the highest 

 productivity out of such lands it is necessary to 

 use manures which will supply vegetable matter 



to the soil. There are two ways of accomplishing 

 this object. One is to use stable manures. But no 

 farm, aside from a few of the heavy stock-feeding 

 farms, produces sufficient manure on its own area 

 to supply the vegetable matter necessary for the 

 farm. Consequently it is necessary to grow some 

 crop occasionally which may be plowed under, thus 

 supplying the vegetable matter. 



Of the crops available for Colorado agriculture, 

 sweet clover is one of the best for this purpose. It 

 will give quicker returns than almost any other 

 crop which may be grown to plow under as a fer- 

 tilizer. Sweet clover will mellow up heavy adobe 

 or clay lands to a greater extent than any other crop 

 available to our agriculture. For a green manure 

 crop, to get quick fertilizer value, we have no crop 

 superior to sweet clover. 



DEMANDS CARE OF LIVESTOCK 



Save all the heifer calves and plan to raise more 

 pigs, lambs, colts, calves and chickens next year 

 than you did this year. Do you know the world 

 is being depleted of its live stock? 



Keep your pigs growing. They should weigh 

 200 pounds at six months of age and they are worth 

 $16.00 a hundred now. Ten good pigs are worth 

 $300.00. 



Give your hogs all the alfalfa or clover they 

 will eat winter and summer. Give them skim milk, 

 whey, some grain, or anything else you have, but be 

 sure to give them all they can eat. 



Keep the calves growing. Give them some 

 grain, separate from milk, and all the good hay they 

 can eat. Veal is now worth sixteen cents a pound. 

 A good veal is worth $35.00. 



Feed the lambs well. They are worth $20.00 

 apiece and wool is worth from 50c to 70c a pound. 



Feed the cows well. Keep them milking. You 

 may dislike to see them eat so much, but please give 

 them all they can eat all the time. The price of 

 milk, butter and cheese is going out of sight. Butter 

 fat may be worth $1.00 a pound before long. 



Feed and handle the mares so that you will 

 save all the colts next spring. Good horses are 

 worth $75.00 a head more than they were a year 

 ago. A good horse is worth $300.00.. 



INTERESTING INSTALLATION 



We show here a view of irrigation pumping in- 

 stallation on ranch of D. E. Low, Roswell, New 

 Mexico. Pump is an "American" motor-driven. 24- 



inch, deep well turbine centrifugal and maintains a 

 delivery of 1,000 G. P. M. Pump discharges into 

 concrete reciving tank which delivers water through 

 underground concrete pipe to various places of dis- 

 charge, dispensing with main irrigation ditches. 



