WISEMAN-DOWNS CO., INC. - 34 E. PRATT ST. - BALTIMORE, MD 
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The Improved “Planet Jr.” White Potato Digger 
The “Planet Jr.” White Potato Digger has been greatly 
improved recently. Instead of a digging head of tines it 
now consists of successive shares, which cut the furrow 
turned on edge by the front share and moldboard into 
horizontal slices, throwing the vines and weeds to one side 
and pushing the potatoes to the surface. 
Doubtless you would like us to say how they compare 
with the various four-horse diggers on the market. To 
answer this, the “Planet Jr.” White Potato Digger is equal 
to any for digging early, when the vines are green, the 
potatoes fast to them and the ground clean. A little later 
on, when the vines are dead and the ground fairly free 
from weeds, the four-horse diggers do better work in 
some cases, the crop being picked up more easily after 
them. At a later stage, when the field grows very grassy 
and weedy, the four-horse tools are almost useless, while 
the “Planet Jr.” even then does its work fairly well. If 
compelled to use but one digger the season through, the 
“Planet Jr.’ is the best. It costs but one-fourth or one- 
fifth as much, takes less than half the power to draw it; 
DOES NOT SKIN THE POTATOES, digs faster and costs 
about one-twentieth as much for repairs, and it will last 
almost a lifetime, with a few new shares and landsides. 
Packed weight, 143 pounds. 
Price $42.50 
Hoover” Potato Digger with Agitating Rear Rack and Vine Separator 
SPECIFICATIONS: 
Truck—Double-acting, with 14-inch 
steel wheels provided with removable 
hubs and bearings. 
Frame—22 inches wide, 6 feet long 
(elevator 5 feet long). Sides made of 
special Tee steel rolled exclusively for 
the “Hoover.” Malleable pieces for at¬ 
taching shovel and axle are riveted 
solidly to the Tee steel sides. 
Shovel—High carbon crucible steel. 
Elevator—Rod type, made of %-inch 
high carbon spring steel with every 
alternate link raised and lowered. (7-16- 
inch steel furnished when ordered.) 
Bearings—212-inch roller bearings on 
main elevator shaft with compression 
grease cups, 2-inch roller bearings on elevator idlers and 
pitman shaft. All other idlers run on pipe bearings. 
Wheels—30-inch diameter, 3-inch tire. Staggered spokes 
and removable hubs. 
Tread—Main wheels, 37 inches; trucks, 31% inches. 
Drive Chains—Heavy Locke tempered steel running on 
forged and tempered steel sprockets on main elevator shaft. 
Rear Rack—Agitating with vine separating rods and 
Four-Horsepower Engine on a Hoover Digger 
forks. Hangers supporting potato or rod rack swing on 
pipe bearings. Pitmans agitating potato or rod rack are 
oval steel with wood bearings. Pitman shaft %-inch cold 
rolled steel with 2-inch roller bearings and dirt-proof pipe 
covering screwed in bearing castings. Vine forks revolve 
o'n high carbon steel crank provided with removable 
bearings. 
Clearance—19 inches under truck; 15 inches 
under beams. 
Weight—985 pounds. 
Price—6 Ft. Digger with Two-Horse Hitch, 
$150.00. With Engine, $375.00. t 
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“John Deere” Shaker Potato Digger 
Steel beam. Natural temper steel blades. Provided 
with weed fender and gauge wheel. The Shaker Digger 
has a perfectly flat blade and will not cut the potatoes. 
The rod grating is hinged at the front and is given 
an up-and-down shaking motion by the sprocket wheel 
at the rear. This shakes the dirt off from the tubers 
and leaves them clean and whole on top of the ground. 
The weed fender is intended to clear away weeds and 
vines, preparing the way for the blade. The Digger is 
shipped with gauge wheel and fender, unless ordered 
without. 
Price $25.50 
To meet the various conditions under which potatoes are 
grown, it was necessary to build several styles and sizes 
of machines. In making the changes and improvements 
ments for the various styles and sizes 
that are necessary for the successful 
harvesting of the crop. The frames are 
6 and 7 feet long and of two widths, 
20 and 22 inches. The following gen¬ 
eral description of the construction of 
the “Hoover” should convince you that 
nothing but the best of material and 
workmanship is used in their construc¬ 
tion, which in connection with the in¬ 
ventive genius, which is constantly used 
for their betterment, puts them in a 
class by themselves, and about five years 
ahead of all imitations. 
necessary to the universal use of the “Hoover” they were 
designed so that two general or main frames would be 
the basis to which could be added the different attach- 
