Rash claims are also bein.u" niado in re.uard to Iho various kinds of work 

 the small tractor will do. In the judgment of the writer, it will be ex- 

 ceedingly difficult to devise one tractor that will accomplish all the 

 different kinds of work incident to producing the various crops raised on 

 the average farm. 



Plowing is the most important of all the operations in farming. From 

 one-quarter to one-third of the labor in making a crop of corn is in plow- 

 ing the ground, and one-half in producing a grain crop. It is hardly 

 profitable to have a tractor that pulls less than three bottoms under 

 ordinary conditions and two bottoms under adverse conditions. A 

 tractor that will pull three plows is too cumbersome and the cost of 

 maintenance too great to plant and cultivate corn, run a mower, hay 

 rake, harrow or ordinary-sized grain drill; hence, farmers will eventually 

 find it to their advantage to have two sizes, just as they have two types 

 of 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 a 

 gap and absolutely revolutionize the motive power on the farm. This 

 tractor, called the "Tractivator," is light, strong in construction, and 

 free of intricate mechanism and easily broken parts. In operation, it is 

 as easy to handle as a Ford car and can be operated at a minimum cost. 

 It has two speeds, and can be operated forward or backward. It is so 

 devised that as short a turn can be made with it as with a team of horses. 



IMPORTANT NOTICE 



The great demand for materials of all kinds, due to the 

 war, makes it unwise to enter new fields of manufacture at 

 this time. Therefore, the offering of the Tractivator to 

 the public has been postponed for the present. 



