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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 12, 1021 
Ever hear the old saying “High-priced seed means a 
low-priced crop”? Ever notice that the reverse is 
equally true —and that today’s situation should there¬ 
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ear to the ground and his eye to the future” ? 
He knows that over-production never occurs two 
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Truck and Tractor 
The Six-wheeled Truck 
Will the six-wheel truck be a freak 
or a common factor in the expanding 
field of the truck? According to some 
experts it would seem that close tabu¬ 
lation of results indicates that the six¬ 
wheeler, or tandem-axle construction 
truck, with four pneumatic-equipped rear 
wheels, has steadier riding qualities, better 
traction, is less destructive to roads, de¬ 
creases tire weight and costs, reduces 
axle weight, has greater braking capacity, 
and permits greater operating radius. 
Some experts have even gone so far as to 
predict that the heavy tonnage truck of 
the future would be some form of the 
multiple-wheel vehicle, just as the mul¬ 
tiple-wheel freight car succeeded the 
single-truck type in the transportation of 
heavy loads. 
The new six-wheel truck is equipped 
with 40xS pneumatic tires, each weigh¬ 
ing 119 lbs., in the rear instead of the 
giant 48x12, weighing about 398 lbs. each, 
used on the five-ton trucks. This means 
From our own experience, and from 
talking with others, there is one make of 
disk harrow that stands out above all the 
rest as a really satisfactory tractor tool. 
In this tool the disks are not forged as 
a portion of a spherical surface, but have 
a slightly increased curve as they near 
the edge. Those who have used it and 
no other say it is a most excellent tool, 
while those who have used it in compari¬ 
son with others say it is by far the best. 
In my opinion, under our Eastern con¬ 
ditions, especially on land which is not 
stony, the disk is the only really success¬ 
ful tractor tool. On stony land no disk 
is as good as on land without stones, hut 
the cutaway is better than the round 
disk, and perhaps the exaggerated cut¬ 
away which we used to hear called the 
spading harrow would be better yet. The 
great trouble with the disk on sfony land 
is that the stones get caught between the 
disks. After we have stopped a few hun¬ 
dred times to pull out stones, we try tak¬ 
ing off the disk scrapers. After a few 
The Six-wlieeled Truck 
a reduction of some 279 lbs. in weight 
which the driver on tire changes has to 
lift; and in addition, the smaller tires 
cost almost one-third less than the larger 
ones. The cost of tire investment is fur¬ 
ther reduced since the eight-inch tiie can 
be used all around on the six-wheel truck, 
and the extra tire can be used as the 
front wheel spare. Another large ob¬ 
jection to the 48x12 tire, which is en¬ 
tirely overcome by the smaller tires, is 
the extremely high center of gravity— 
the truck load being raised too high off 
the ground. 
The new six-wheel construction gives 
not only a reduction in total tire weight 
but a material reduction in axle weight 
as well. Moreover, greater braking ca¬ 
pacity is attained in tin* use of four 
brakes instead of two. 
In spite of the fact that the four 
eight-inch tires have a road contact area 
which is 27 per cent, greater ban that 
of the two 12-inch pneumatics, the new 
truck is said to show very much better 
traction qualities. In the tests this was 
noticeable in comparison with dual solids 
or pneumatics on highly crowned roads, 
and in soft going where additional trac¬ 
tion surface kept the wheels from sink¬ 
ing in deeply and the truck from stalling. 
Increased ease in handling seems to be 
one of the chief features. With pneu¬ 
matics on the tandem-axle, the six-wheel¬ 
er seems to cling to the road. The rear 
wheels turn around a corner after the 
same principle of an interurbau trolley 
making a curve. The traction and flex¬ 
ibility of the tires afford the principal 
reason for the ease with which the tan¬ 
dem wheels turn sharply and follow the 
front wheels around any curve. 
A. It. PULVER. 
Tools to Use with a Light Tractor 
I have itad no experience with exten¬ 
sion disk harrows, personally, but from 
what I have seen of them, and from what 
I have heard from others, it is my belief 
that the most satisfactory way will be 
to cut off enough of the lower limbs to 
allow the tractor to work under the trees. 
There are a number <4 these extension 
disks made, but I should expect t<» find 
most of them rather in the nature of 
makeshifts. 
times across the field we find that this 
simply changes our disk harrow to a roller 
and put the scrapers back. 
I am well aware that plowing can be 
done with a tractor. I have done it my¬ 
self. In our orchard work, however, we 
can get the plowing done with teams. 
On a farm which is mostly orchard there 
is little plowing which needs to he done, 
except in the orchards which are inter¬ 
cropped. Orchards treated under the 
dust mulch and cover-crop method do not 
need plowing. They will look pretty 
ragged the first time over in the Spring. 
The second time over will hide most of 
the cover crop, if it is done soon enough, 
and after that there will be no cover crop 
to bother if the cultivation is done right. 
Our experience with plowing in the or¬ 
chard has usually been that we would 
start out with about four or five teams 
and turn over a lot of ground the first 
day or two. About the third day we 
would have to take a team off the plow 
to drag down what had been plowed. 
After a few days more we would have 
to put another team, going over this a 
second time, and at the last there would 
be three or four teams cultivating while 
one was finishing the plowing about two 
weeks too late. 
One thing the tractor operator will find 
out very soon is that the disk used alone 
is much better thau the disk used with 
some other tool. It is hard work riding 
a tractor over the furrows as left by the 
plow, but land which has been plowed 
and then disked twice over with the trac¬ 
tor and double disk is better fitted than 
the same land if a spike-tooth bad gone 
over it twice between plowing and disk¬ 
ing. If the disks are set really to do 
some work, there will be some ridges left 
on the field. If these ridges are smoothed 
down, the disk will not do as good work 
the next time as if they had been left. 
The disk seems to uj*ed to have a ridge 
to bite into to do its best work. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. alerf.d c. weed. 
‘‘My goodness!” exclaimed an anxious 
mother. “What in the world makes your 
face so dirty. Edwin?” Edwin: “Char¬ 
lie an' me had a fight, an’ he throw’d 
more dirt in my face than I could swal¬ 
low.”—Credit Lost. 
