SOME OF THE 



NEW THINGS 



COMING UP 

 IN 



FARM 

 MACHINERY 



WHAT new developments in farm 

 machinery can farmers expect as 

 soon as war conditions permit their 

 manufacture? 



Here's what Prof. R. I. Shawl, agri- 

 cultural engineering department, U. of I. 

 College of Agriculture, has to say on 

 that subject. 



The hydraulic lift and control is one 

 of the foremost steps in tractor farming. 

 One manufacturer has hydraulic lift and 

 control for all its implements. Most 

 of the implement adjustment levers are 

 eliminated by this system. Another man- 

 ufacturer has released information on 

 its new hydraulic lift and control for 

 its small tractor with 20 or more newly- 

 designed farm implements controlled and 

 lifted by this system. The drawbar can 

 be moved up and down for attaching to 

 implements which makes hooking up 

 easier and safer. Manufacturers also 

 promise to have 3-bottom plows attached 

 to and lifted by the tractor hydraulic 

 system. 



New pulled plows will have more 



In the foreground is a self-typing hay 

 baler described in Professor Shawl's arti- 

 cle. In the upper right is a seli-propelled 

 combine. 



clearance under the beams for the passage 

 of trash. 



Three manufacturers now make plow 

 shares of the "safety razor blade" type, 

 which are low-cost and are thrown away 

 as soon as they become dull. Two man- 

 ufacturers have replaceable plow points. 

 These new shares and points eliminate 

 all blacksmith work on plow shares 

 which greatly simplifies the farmer's 

 plow problem. There also will be many 

 more models of two-way plows for ter- 

 racing and contour farming. 



Disk plows and Wheatland plows for 

 terracing and general farm planning are 

 likely to be more common. 



Other developments to come include 

 the culti-mulcher — a double corrugated 

 roller with spring teeth between front 

 and rear roller gangs and a leveling bar 

 ahead. This machine takes the place of 

 a disk and does an excellent job of 

 leveling, clod crushing, stirring and 

 mulching the ground. It is excellent for 

 preparing the seed bed soon after plow- 

 ing. A 2-plow tractor pulls an 8-foot 

 width. 



Then there is the once over tiller or 

 rotary plow that plows, disks, harrows 

 and levels in one operation. This type 

 of plow has had considerable publicity 

 recently by one manufacturer. It is a 

 type that was used in Europe for many 

 years and has been demonstrated in the 

 United States since 1920 or earlier. 



Two small engine-propelled machines 

 of this type varying in width from 14 

 inches to 2 feet have been used for sev- 

 eral years by florists, vegetable gardeners 

 and landscape architects. Machines have 

 power-driven rotary cylinders with knives 

 or fingers which tear up the soil and 

 trash and mix them together. The soil 

 and trash are thrown against a bang- 

 board which drops them to the ground 

 and levels the surface. 



Combination corn and bean planters 

 and cultivators have also received some 

 publicity. These are four-in-one ma- 

 chines with a main frame and quickly 

 attachable planter for corn and beans 

 and also cultivators. 



Four rows of beans and two rows of 



This is a combined field hay chopper 

 mower and ensilage cutter. It will mow 

 and cut green standing hay, pick up hay 

 from the windrow and has an attach- 

 ment for converting it into a field en- 

 silage cutter. Four manufacturers are 

 making these machines. 



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