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A cre for acre—^hour for hour, 
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nomical work. _ Under reasonable 
conditions pulling three 14 " plows, 
set 8 inches deep, it easily turns an 
acre an hour on a gallon and a half 
to two gallons of gasoline. In the 
5,000 lb. class. It does not pack 
the ground. Never stalls. 
H u Etef? 
Steers itself when plowing. And such 
power! A steady stream of energy from a 
4-cyUnder motor, transmitted direct to the 
drive. Does not overheat in extreme 
weather. Self - lubricating anti - friction 
bearings. It turns i n a 6-foot radius and is 
mounted on its powerful frame so as to 
adjust itself to the roughest fields. 
12 h.p. at the draw-bar with a road speed 
from 2}-^ to 4 miles per hour. 25 h.p. at 
the belt, operating separator, silo filler, 
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Established More than Forty Years 
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IWAN 
POSTHOLE 
AUGER 
Digs post holes faster than the man be¬ 
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The two interlocking sharp cruclblo 
steel blades easily cut through any soil. 
DIGS QUICK AND EASY 
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Cultivating the Apple Orchard 
Part II. 
Use of Tuactous. —Tractors are lit¬ 
tle used in this immediate vicinity. At 
the recent fruit ineeting.s I have hoard .a 
nnmbi'r of prominent men exjire.s.s their 
approval. A year or two ago the man¬ 
ager of oi of the largest fruit farms 
near here told that the day before he 
cultivated 16 acres of orchard in 
hours. This was with the make of 
small tractor which probably has the 
greatest sale of any on the market. An¬ 
other mail a few weeks ago said that this 
make of tractor on his farm was mitirely 
imeless so far as plowing was concerned, 
but he thought it a good invf'stmeut for 
polling a di.sk or sjndug-tooth. He said 
his men fooled around a day or so plow¬ 
ing a few Tod.s, and gave it up. Another 
one, who has a better type of tractor, 
said that he did not get any plows with 
his machine, for he thought it would be 
a waste of money to bother with them. 
These are all round-wheel tractors of 
one make or another. It seems likely 
that when the caterpillar type of trac¬ 
tor is introduced here, the number of 
favorable coniments will be increased. 
At present the situation seems to be 
that the ground is usually so .soft when 
we want to jilow in the Siiring that the 
ordinary round-wheel tractor is of little 
use. T.ater in the season tractors may 
be of great service to the man who has 
large_ amounts of orchaiv to cultivate, 
especially if he can have some use for 
the machiue the rest of the year. 
Tractor Advantaoes. —The great ad¬ 
vantage of the tractor at present is not 
that they will do a groat d(‘al more work 
in a given time than a team of horses 
(under certain conditions two horses 
may do more than one of the most 
widely-sold tractors), hut that they can 
he worked steadily jor a longer .time 
without needing to stop to rest. In 
ordinary plowing it is likely that a team 
will stand idle two or three hours or 
more in a 10-hour day, !nul even then 
a few weeks of it will be pretty hard 
on them. The tractor, however, if it is 
working right, may 'be used 24 hours a 
day if the men can stand it. It does 
not have to stop for hot weather. It 
is possible that in a few years the trac¬ 
tor will be brought do such a state of 
perfection that our orchard jilowing can 
be done very quickly by means of a 
gang of heavy disks wide enough to 
cover the entire width of a tree space at 
one or two operations. 
Intercropping. —This is a very im¬ 
portant part of the orchard practice in 
this section. Almo.st all farm crops are 
u.sed and bavo various effects on the 
growth of the trees. Wheat, oats and 
rye are not at all desirable. They take 
largo amounts of moisture from the soil 
at times when it is needed for tree 
growth and may set •back the trees a 
whole year or more. Field corn when 
jiroperly tended seems to be good for the 
orchard. , The tri'os semn to grow about 
as well as when they have the whole 
use of the p’ouud. If only cultivated 
oncc' or twice, corn might not he a 
great help to the trees, hut if the ground 
were left bare and only worked over once 
or twice, there would not be much bene¬ 
fit from cultivation. Beans are a .staple 
intercrop in the aiiple region of Wc.st- 
ern New York. Opinion about them is 
a little divided, but most consider that 
they do not harm the orchard much, if 
at all. ^Ve havi* a block of Ben Davis 
which wa.s cropped in beans for several 
yisirs, and it .seems that the reduction 
of humus in the .soil by this treatment 
is the cause of two or three large gul¬ 
lies which are a great nuisance. On 
land which cannot gully out this objec¬ 
tion might not have much weight. Most 
of the peas for the canneries are rai.sed 
in the orchards and about all the grow¬ 
ers think this intercrop a very good 
thing for the tree_s. Buckwheat as an 
intercrop has already been mentioned. 
It may have .some value under certain 
conditions, but we do not feel that we 
want it. Hay a.s an intercrop has no 
value. It is usually very harmful to 
the ti •ees. Oabbage is .sometimes tried, 
hut usually without much success. In 
regions when^ there is a good sale for 
them, bush fniit.s, euri-auts. raspl)ei*- 
ries. blacklx'rries. et(‘.. are very good in¬ 
tercrops in apple orchard.'!. Bed rasp- 
herries, esiieci.-illy. s<>em to do well 
among apjile trees. T1 h‘ berries are less 
likely to dry up and be small and 
crumbly than when grown iu the open, 
away from a p.irtial .shade. 
Bi.owing and Seeding. —At leii.st one 
vei-y .successful grower in this region has 
a rather different system of orchard cul- 
ti\!ition. He plows a.s early as possible. 
If I !im nof mistaken, he say.s that he 
does not feel it has any value to plow 
after the middle of May. Then he cul¬ 
tivates once or twi(*e and seeds down 
the orchard. M'o.st of us, however, still 
stick to our method of .stii’ring up the 
soil about once a week until the early 
part of July. ai.fri:d c. weitd. 
Dcri.vg President Lincoln’s first vi.sit 
tu the Springfield iieniteutiary au old 
iniiiiite. looking out througli the bars, re¬ 
marked: “Well, Mr. IJncoln, you and I 
ought to be well posted on prison.s. 
We’ve seen all there are in the coun¬ 
try.” “Why. this is the first one I ever 
visited,” answered I,incolii, in surprise. 
“Yes,” was the reply, “but Pve been in 
all the rest.”—Woman’s Journal. 
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