1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Let Us Tell You About 
The Detroit Tongueless 
Disc Harrow and then 
Let Us Send You One 
on a Thirty Days Free 
Field Test on Your Form 
—Shippedto You Direct 
from Our Factory ail 
Freight Prepaid. No 
\ 
Advance Payment ~ 
1 JU 
No Deposit « Time 
Payments Allowed 
to Suit Your Con¬ 
venience. 
Use It on your 
own farm 30 Days 
FREE. We pay the 
freight-you take no risk. 
That truck does away with the tongue— 
leaving'the horses free to pull even, without 
crowding—without shoving—working indepen 
dent from the teeter and “side draft” of the 
Harrow. 
We make shipments from 
warehouses located in trade 
centers of various statesm 
AMERICAN HARROW COMPANY 
1629 HASTINGS STREET,' DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 
T AKE any Disc Harrow with a tongue. 
Hitch to it—and draw it out into the field. 
Let the Discs draw into the ground—a9 
they do in ordinary work. 
Then unhitch your horses. 
Get two men to help you; let one sit on the 
seat, and have the other take hold of the tongue 
with you—and turn the harrow around. Maybe 
the two of you can’t do it. If you can , you will 
have a hard job. 
Now, the effort that two of you put on the 
tongue to turn the Harrow, is just the effort your 
horses have to make every time they turn a cor¬ 
ner when you are using a Tongue Disc. 
And that prying and pushing at every turn is 
just what frets a good, high strung team—one 
horse pushing and tramping on the other’s feet 
and the other pulling and jerking—until they lose 
more flesh in a week than you can put on them 
in a month—and right at the time of the year 
when you want them in good condition. 
The Tongue in the old style Disc is the bad 
thing about it—but not the only bad thing. 
With the old style Tongue Disc the weight of 
the Tongue—and the teeter of the Harrow lands 
on the horses' necks out at the end of the tongue. 
That is additional cause for galls—sore necks 
—and horses being put out of business right in 
the Spring season. 
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Look at the picture printed below. 
It’s a reproduction of an actual photograph 
of our new Detroit Tongueless Disc Harrow. 
Notice the arrow head pointing to the front 
truck? 
Well, that truck’s the thing that does away 
with all the pounding—and jamming—on the 
horses— 
That’s the thing that takes all the weight 
\ off the horses’ necks— 
That’s the thing that works on a 
pivot— that swings round at the 
turns— _ so that the horses have a 
straight ||g P ul1 ahead, without an¬ 
noyance. — ——* 
We wonder if you’ve ever seen the Detroit 
Tongueless Disc Harrow? 
If you never have, you’ve never seen the best 
Disc Harrow that was ever made. 
By all means you should see one—and we 
want you not only to see it—but to test one on 
your own farm, at our risk—not yours. 
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Now we’re manufacturing these Harrows 
right in our own factory—selling them direct to 
farmers on the Approval Test Plan. 
We don’t ask you to send us any money in 
advance—we don’t ask you to pay any freight— 
we don’t ask you to make any deposit. 
We just ask you to order one of these 
Harrows right from our factory to you. We will 
deliver it at your railroad station all charges 
prepaid. 
Then you take it out on your farm and use 
it—give it a month’s test, in your own way—just 
as if it were your own. 
If you don’t find it all we claim that it is— 
and if it doesn’t do what we say it will do, then 
take it back to your freight depot and send it 
back to us. We will pay all the freight both 
ways and you have the test free, for you have 
paid us nothing and this test costs you nothing. 
If you do like the Harrow—and we're 
sure you will —then you can pay us for it 
on time, to suit your convenience. 
We are large manufacturers of Disc 
Harrows, and have ample capital. We 
sell on terms that make it convenient for 
^ you to buy—cash or time as you prefer. 
We sell the entire product of our 
factory direct to farmers on the 30-Day 
Approval Test Plan, which is the 
strongest positive cruarantee, both as 
to the quality and value of our ma 
chines. 
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It’s unquestionably the finest Disc Harrow 
ever put out. 
It’s good all the way througji—every bolt and 
nut is good. Its solid steel frame is made heavy 
and strong just where it should be heavy and 
strong. The steel in the Discs is the very best — 
and the ball bearings take all the “end thrust” 
of the sections, reduce friction, and enable it to do 
its work with the least possible amount of power! 
Double levers make the sections easy to handle. 
The Detroit Tongueless isn’t cheapened or 
weakened here or there—it’s just the best that can 
be made out of the best material. It’s fully guar¬ 
anteed and will last a long time—and all of the 
time it’s easy on your horses—easy on their tem¬ 
per, and on yours. ' 
Now will you take advantage of our Free Field 
Test offer before other farmers rush in and order 
all the Harrows that we can supply this year, so 
that we can’t ship you one. 
If you you want one,you ought to stop reading 
right here, and start writing. Just take a 
postal and ask for our new Detroit 
Tonguless Disc Harrow 
Catalogue—which is 
just off the press. 
We make a specialty 
this one Harrow—the 
Detroit Tongueless 
f Disc. We make it 
it in fourteen sizes. 
of 
It will tell you all about 
our Tongueless Disc Harrow— 
It will tell you about our new 
selling plan. It gives you big 
illustrations of every part of the 
Harrow. It will tell you why we 
can better serve your interests sell¬ 
ing to you direct than by selling 
through the dealer or middleman. 
It tells you how we keep in close 
touch with every one of our customers 
—how we can always furnish any parts 
by express, quick, from our numerous 
warehouses located in the trade centers 
of various states—how we guarantee the 
Harrow, and how we quote you a very 
reasonable price on it, direct from our 
factory. 
