June 22, 1922 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



Cultivating Asters in Wisconsin. 



inig, disking, harrowing, dragging, fur- 

 rowing and cultivating. Almost any- 

 one can learn to operate one of theae 

 tractors more readily and with much 

 more satisfaction than he could drive; 

 a horse, if he never had any experience 

 with a horse before. The Utilitor, when 

 _ properly adjusted before starting, will 

 give one no trouble at all. The machine 

 is well builtj and we have had no trou- 

 ble with breakage. It is economical in 

 the use of gasoline and lubricating oil. 

 I liiuch prefer the Utilitor to any horse 

 I have ever handled." 



"I have used a Utilitor tractor for 

 two years for plowing and harrowing 

 and like it for this purpose. If you 

 have a tractor to do your work and a 

 flivver to do your' errands, you are well 

 fixed," says H. Wells Taylor, florist at 

 Spring City, Pa. 



Simple and Serviceable. 



A small tractor and power cultivator, 

 which has a clutch control and carries 

 the engine inside the large bull or 

 traction wheel, is found in the Kinkade, 

 manufactured by the American Farm 

 Machinery Co., Minneapolis, Minn. "It 

 is a wonderful machine for its size and 

 easily does the work of three men oper- 

 ating hand machines," says C. A. Bra- 

 zee, wholesale florist and bulb grower, 

 of Wilmington. Cal. "It hoes and cul- 

 tivates much deeper than a hand ma- 

 chine and makes work a pleasure. I 

 can easily operate it in rows one foot 

 apart, and it is so simple that a boy 

 can operate it. It is strongly con- 

 structed, requiring little or no adjust- 

 ment, and is always ready for work. 

 Above all, it really does the work." 



The Acme, Jr., power cultivator, 

 made by the Acme Cultivator Co., 

 Salem, 6., is a compact machine, easy 

 to handle. It is of the 2-wheel type and 

 its construction makes its care simple 

 and its life long. 



Useful in Nursery Rows. 



The Cultimotor, manufactured by the 

 Shelby Tractor & Truck Co.. at Shelby, 

 O., has a notable advantage in its abil- 

 ity to pass between narrow rows, allow- 

 ing cultivation regardless of the height 

 of plants. Tool holders of various 

 lengths, attached in a few minutes, are 

 adapted to any of the standard garden 

 tools, such as hoes, cultivator teeth, 

 disks, side-hill and moldboard plows. 

 Tools are thrown in or out of service by 

 touching a foot lever. A clutch at the 



left hand and a thumb throttle at the 

 right give control. 



"Having only one power wheel of ex- 

 ceptional width, more traction is ob- 

 tained than in the 2-wheeled type, 

 which allows a slippage of the wheel on 

 the side of least resistance," state the 

 makers of this machine. 



The drive is through gears and chain, 

 enclosed in metal housing, while bronze- 

 bushed and hardened roller bearings as- 

 sist in obtaining a minimum of friction 

 and wear. To withstand the hard usage 

 to which a tractor is bound to be put, 

 rolled steel is used throughout in frame- 

 work construction. A 4-cycle air-cooled 

 motor with enclosed flywheel mag- 

 neto produces the power. It is equipped 

 with a device for removing all dust 

 from the air passing to the carburetor. 



A small belt pulley and an attachment 

 permits the use of any hand lawn mower 

 in connection with the Cultimotor. A 

 gasoline consumption of one gallon per 

 ten hours, with oil consumption of 

 about one-quarter pint, is claimed for 

 this machine. 



Used by Vegetable Growers. 



A light power cultivator which 

 stresses its specialized design and con- 

 struction is the Motor Macultivator, 

 manufactured at Toledo, O., by the 

 Motor Macultivator Co. This machine 

 . turns in a radius of thirty-five inches, 

 is light and powerful, and because of 

 patented features gives an unusually 

 wide range of tool placement at the op- 

 tion of the operator. The tool adjust- 

 ment on the Motor Macultivator enables 

 the operator to regulate width, depth 

 and cutting angle of the tools in use. 

 A special device on this machine en- 

 ables the operator to raise the tools from 

 the ground without lifting the machine. 

 It cultivates from one-quarter inch to 

 four inches in depth, one or two rows 

 at a time, and, it is said, gets up within 

 a half inch of plants. It will straddle 

 the rows or work between them, as the 

 operator may desire. Vegetable grow- 

 ers have found this machine generally 

 useful. 



In the Motor Macultivator the crank 

 case and main frame are cast in one 

 piece. There arc few parts and these 

 easily accessible. Its low center of 

 gravity permits it to work on uneven 

 surfaces or sharp inclines without dan- 

 ger of overturning. Left-hand clutch 

 and right-hand throttle are controlled 

 from the hand grips. The lubrication 

 system consists of five grease cups; no 

 oil can is needed. The motor is a one- 

 cylinder, four-cycle motor. The drive 

 wheel diameter is nineteen and one-half 

 inches, width over all seventeen and 

 one-half inches, height thirty-two 

 inches, length fifty-four inches, clear- 

 ance nine inches, weight 210 pounds. 



The Motor Macultivator is readily 

 converted into a power lawn mower by 

 the use of an inexpensive attachment 

 that is adaptable to practically any 

 lawn mower or cutting unit now in the 

 market. 



Nurseryman's Experience. 



One of the first manufacturers to fol- 

 low the trend toward specialized trac- 

 tors of small size, the New Britain Ma- 

 chine Co., New Britain, Conn., has de- 

 signed a small tractor fitted to the 

 needs of truck gardeners, seed growers, 

 nurserymen and florists with a small 

 acreage of outdoor stock. Experiments 

 have been made in eastern nurseries to 

 demonstrate the ability of this machine 



to meet such needs. Last summer Swain 

 Nelson & Sons Co., Chicago, bought one 

 of these machines for use in cultivating 

 nursery stock in regularly planted tree 

 blocks', with rows as close as three feet. 

 This company found that when the 

 ground was not too hard or tangled with 

 roots, the majjhine enabled one man 

 to cultivate about twice the area that 

 he could with a one-horse cultivator. 

 "We found the machine easy to guide ^ 

 and have never had it tip over, nor 

 have we lost control of it," says the 

 superintendent of the nurseries of 

 Swain Nelson & Sons. Co. "After sev- 

 eral days' usage, some part of the ma- 

 chine broke, not having been built 

 strong enough to last long in this kind 

 of work. The manufacturers furnished 

 without cost to us stronger parts, and 

 we are putting the machine into perfect 

 shape for use as soon as time for culti- 

 vating arrives. No other machine we 

 have tried has given nearly the satis- 

 faction that the New Britain gives. 

 We hope that, with the changes of 

 stronger parts for the original ones, 

 this will be a thoroughly satisfactory 

 nursery motor cultivator. ' ' 



Iiight, One-Wheeled Machine. 



A light power cultivator is made by 

 H. C. Dodge, Inc., Boston, Mass., and is 

 known as the Sprywheel. This one- 

 wheel tractor is found to work well in 

 cultivating plants set out in narrow 

 rows. An eastern nurseryman finds it 

 particularly useful for cultivating 

 young evergreens and azaleas, which 

 are bedded out, five rows to a bed, with 

 ten inches between the rows, in a heavy 

 clay soil that packs hard, but has no 

 stones in it. In this soil the machine 

 goes from two and one-half to three 

 inches deep; in light soil it will culti- 

 vate five inches deep. This nursery- 

 man says: "In previous years this work 

 has always been done by hand hoeing, 

 as the rows are too close together and 

 the stock too valuable to permit the 

 horse cultivator. The trouble with the 

 machine is to find a man who will keep 

 up with it all day. By paying a little 

 extra, however, we are able to save 

 more than the cost of the machine in 

 one week, over the expense of hand 

 work, as it will do more and better 

 work than ten men with hoes. For 

 such work it is advisable to plant the 



In the Carnation Field. 



