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THE CUBA REVIEW 



the extra power recjuired to do heavy ]jhintatiou work in the riglit way at ju.st the riglit time, 

 and to enable them to sell their surplus animal power and relieve the hrood mares of the 

 heavy work. 



One of the Avery Gas Tractor? is now used at La Gloria, ('ul)a, by a large sugar machinery 

 concern for hauling its machinery, and it is the intention to use this tractor for road and field 

 work as required, and the owners of this outfit have been agreeably surprised at the amovmt 

 of power displaced by one of these tractors— only recently a comparatively small tractor 

 handled five wagons loadeil with fifteen tons of machinery without any difficulty. The possi- 

 bilities for such a tractor as the Avery Comjiany manufacture are imlimited in Cuba, and the 

 daj' is not far tlistant when the large sugar plantations will he educated to the needs of gas and 

 oil tractors and also realize that thej' are now perfected to the same degree as the automobile. 



These tractors are adaptable to large, medium and small farms, and the solution of the 

 farm power questions today is to keep only enough animal power to do cultivating and light 

 work, sell the rest of them and invest in a tractor to do the plowing and otiier heavy work. 

 This combination of tractor and animal power is the solution of the farm jiower problem. It's 

 he way to raise the biggest crops and do it with the least expense and hard work. In Cuba, where 

 the labor shortage at times of the year is serious on the larger plantations, it occurs to the 

 writer that this tractor will help .solve a difficult economic proolem in this connection and make 

 for increased efficiencj' in management. 



The upper view shows the old and new way of handling the soil. 



In the lower left hand corner is shoA\-n a coml)ination of plowing and harrowing — -a good 

 combination to thoroughly till the surface of the ground. 



The picture in the right hand corner shows overland hauling with a tractor. All kinds of 

 merchandise and produce can be readily hauled and with little expense. 



