The Self-propelled Harvester illustrates what is probably the most sensational advance made in farm machinery during the last 
six years. Introduced by a national manufacturer of farm machinery, it is the culmination of the slow evolution from the stationary 
type powered from a separate tractor, and through the self-powered, tractor-drawn units. Like a shortstop fielding a grounder on 
the baseball diamond, this machine picks up, threshes, and bags flower seed on the run, without halting its forward progress. 
Bodger production men bought one of these machines—originally grain harvesters—and redesigned it ,the first such adaption to be 
made anywhere in the industry. In a test, it exceeded the output of a stationary machine by more than five to one. Speed such as 
this is vital at harvest time, when thousands of acres are involved and the rainy season only a few weeks away. Bodger now has 
many such self-propelled harvesters—their speed an assurance against delay and 
heavy loss due to rain, with the resultant shortage of seed to the trade. 
The Landplane shines after harvest, when the land is being prepared for next 
year’s planting. The reasons for its development are peculiar to Far Western farming: 
In this region rain is not always enough, nor regular enough, to make maximum 
yields. Irrigation is the secret of the West's productivity, and scientific irrigation 
SELF-PROPELLED HARVESTER IS THOROUGHLY 
requires perfectly flat land. The Landplane is just what its name implies: It is a giant 
CLEANED WITH COMPRESSED AIR BEFORE SHIFTING plane that brings the surface of the land flat as a billiard table, with just the right 
TO A DIFFERENT COLOR OF SAME TYPE CROP. ‘‘drop”’ for irrigation at a slow, controllable rate—the rate that makes big crops. All 
CONSCIENTIOUS CARE LIKE THIS PREVENTS 
MECHANICAL MIXING. Bodger flower seed acreage is under irrigation, and it is the Landplane which does 
that all-important job of precision leveling unable to obtain 
UNIQUE TRACTOR LIFT 
SOLVES PROBLEM OF 
HOW TO SHIFT HEAVY 
CANVASSES USED WITH 
GALLOPING GOOSE. 

ONE OF THE BIG SELF-PROPELLED HAR- 
VESTERS AT WORK. BIG MACHINE PICKS 
UP, THRESHES AND BAGS SEED FROM 
FIELD ON THE RUN. 

Labor costs alone are now so high that a return to 
pre-war methods would mean a tremendous in- 
crease in flower seed prices. The “‘hold the line” 
price policy in effect since war's end underlines the decision 
of seed growers to continue with the equipment developed 
during the war: These techniques, developed to increase 
production for war, now keep prices from skyrocketing 
during the reconversion period. Bodger production men, 
with resourcefulness and foresight, are continuing the de- 
velopment of new methods, new machines, which improve 
the quality and dependability of the crop and keep produc- 
tion costs within bounds. Mass production has arrived in 
agriculture, and mechanization is here to stay. 
in any other way. It is another Bodger ‘‘first’’ among flower 
seed growers. 
Mechanization was, of course, indispensible for produc- 
tion during the war, when cost was of secondary importance. 
With the return of peace cost again became important, but 
in the meantime all costs of production had jumped sky-high. 
(Continued below) 
TRIANGULAR WINDROWER MOVES FAST; CUTTING 
FOR THRESHER. 

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GALLOPING GOOSE IS 
BASIC NEW FARM TOOL 
DESIGNED AND BUILT BY 
BODGER PRODUCTION MEN, 
GIVEN NATION-WIDE PUB- 
LICITY IN A NATIONAL 
MAGAZINE RECENTLY. IT 
CUTS ONTO CANVASSES; 
POWER UNITS AND CON- 
TROLS MOUNTED HIGH TO 
GIVE CLEAR WORKING 
SPACE BELOW. 

