FOREWORD: 
During World War II, our government, in an effort to 
supplement food supplies, started the “victory garden” 
movement. Plots were planted in every available area, large 
or small, and the public soon learned how much could be 
grown in a small space. Without question, the “victory gar- 
den” was a huge success and contributed much to World 
War II. Most of these gardens, however, entailed much 
hard work in the use of hand tools. Consequently, at the 
close of the war, many of the home gardens were given up 
and people went back to the stores to buy from commercial 
growers. However, many more people realized how much 
relaxation they had enjoyed out of watching something 
grow which they themselves had planted, and they turned 
to power equipment. 
With the development and perfection of power tools, the 
trend has been for people to move into suburban areas and 
into the country, and let the power equipment do the hard 
work for them, which has resulted in the planting of actu- 
ally more gardens than during World War II. 
Way back in 1936, our ROTO-HOE was started and many 
pilot models were built. In 1947, when materials became 
more available, we developed the ROTO-HOE and the 
rotary cutter, which were inter-changeable. ROTO-HOE, 
which is essentially a “tiller-on-the front, wheels-in-back” 
cultivator, was from the very start a “natural’—a “natural” 
for cultivating in close places, and a “natural” tool for which 
to develop new attachments, without sacrifice in functional 
design, and without the addition of any weight to the ma- 
chine. 
With these years of “lead” time to develop the kind of 
power equipment so many people wanted, we have been 
very busy doing just that. When within the past year or two, 
the general industry viewed our success, many manufac- 
turers decided to build similar equipment, which has been a 
real compliment to ROTO-HOE and a definite endorsement 
of the machine which we developed. 
The ROTO-HOE and Sprayer Company is proud of its 
fine record in having been able to maintain the 1947 price 
through all these years, absorbing many increased costs 
which have been passed on to us. We have built tens of 
thousands of ROTO-HOES, and the various attachments, 
and feel that we are the leader in the development of new 
attachments, and in offering so much to the public at so 
little cost. 
With these thoughts in mind, we would like to present 
this booklet which describes ROTO-HOE and all the various 
attachments which go to make a complete unit with just a 
few moments changing time. 
Copyright 1954, Roto-Hoe & Sprayer Co. 
