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lines of draft of the various sizes of riding plans falls the following dis- tances from the center of the open furrow over which the furrow horse walks:
22 inches in a 16-inch sulky. 25 inches in a 18-inch sulky.
22 inches in a 12-inch double gang. 24 inches in a 13-inch double gang. 26 inches in a 14-inch double gang. 28 inches in a 12-inch triple gang.
In a three-bottom engine gang the true line of draft may be considered to fall through the middle beam, and on a, four-bottom gang it falls mid- way between the two middle beams. The true line of pull from a single drive wheel tractor may be consid- cred to fall through the center of the drive; on a double drive-wheel engine it falls midway between the drive wheels.
The elimination of sidedraft is im- portant also when a tractor is used, both to reduce draft and to produce a better quality of work. If the sidedraft in the power plowing outfit cannot be reduced, it should at least be divided up between the two im- plements. If the plow is forced to carry most of the sidedraft a poorer quality of work is almost sure to result.
Care should be taken also to secure the proper height of hitch on the vertical clevis. Ordinarily the point of attachment of the doubletree to the plow should lic in an imaginary straight line from the horses' hame hooks to the center of resistance. When the horses are driven abreast a practical means of determining this proper height of hitch is to sight to the plow bottom from the hame hooks of the horse standing next to the open furrow. Of course, the plow should be in the furrow when this sighting is done. On a single bail, high-lift rider the hitch sould be at- tached at such a point on the ver- tical clevis that the rear of the beam floats between its stops when the plow is working. When the tandem hitch is substituted for the abreast hitch the point of attachment to the płow should be lowered slightly. It should also be remembered that if increased draft is to be avoided with an engine gang the hitch should be raised or lowered on the plow when the depth of plowing is materially changed.
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The hitch is not solely to blame for heavy draft, however. An improper- ly sharpened share may cause exces- sive draft. Some blacksmiths are very apt to purposely increase the share suck so that the plow will be sure to penetrate. As a rule, this practice is to be condemned. It causes a considerable increase in draft; plows have actually been dis- carded as failures simply because the suction was materially changed when the shares were redressed. When the shares are new, measure the amount of share suck, as indicated in Fig. 2, and scratch this figure on the wall of the home shop or preserve it by some other means. Then when the shares are redressed tell the black- smith how much share suck they or- iginally carried.
Landside friction is another cause for unnecessary draft. Under ordin- ary conditions the rear furrow wheel should be moved over on the frame toward the unplowed land to hold the landside away from the furrow wall. Sliding friction will then be elimi- nated between the landside and soil because the rear wheel will carry the sidethrust of the implement. A com- mon form of adjustment for this pur- pose is shown at A in Fig. 3. Other makes of plows carry devices for this purpose at the same point. Some plow experts claim that the landside should be held a half-inch or a finger's width from the furrow wall. Usually a quarter of an inch will suffice. If an abreast hitch is being used on a plow which is working in very soft ground, sufficient side- draft may exist in the imple- inent to cause the rear furrow wheel to cut into and break up the furrow wall. Under such conditions the operator will have to let the land- side take the sidethrust if he refuses to use the tandem hitch.
Although non-scouring does not oc- cur frequently enough in some local- ities to be called a common trouble, still it is apt to occur in spring plow- ing in any heavy soil, and when it does exist it is an exceptionally ob- stinate trouble to overcome. Even slight non-scouring will lessen the ef- ficiency of the plow if it increases draft and destroys the laying over ef- fect of the moldboard sufficiently to lessen the pulverizing action. Every
plowman knows that when a small portion of soil sticks to the mold of a walking plow it can be quickly forced off by the plowman bearing down on the outside handle in order to throw the plow on its wing for a moment. With a riding plow the operator does the same thing by rais- ing the front furrow wheel for a few seconds. This indicates that the set of the plow has considerable in- fluence upon scouring:
Usually non-scouring can be rem- edied to some degree by making ad- justments that will increase the pres- sure of the furrow slice upon the mold. Thus, setting the plow to cut a little wider or a little deeper may lessen the trouble, or setting the colt .. er to space off a wider furrow slice may have the same effect. If the loose, fine soil which is freed by the colter finds its way on to the mold- board it may cause non-scouring. This condition can often be remedied by setting the colter well forward.
Increasing the suction of a plow bottom and winging the plow down will usually effect better scouring, but it must be remembered that such pro- cedure may increase the draft. On some horse plows the suction can be increased by lengthening the rear bail, by raising the frame on the rear Fig. 2. The Proper Amount of Share Suction Should Be Main- tained When the Shares Are Re- dressed.
wheel, or by moving the rear bail slightly forward. If the operator must resort to this latter adjustment he should proceed only with great cau- tion after he has made sure that lie can retrace his steps if the new ad- justment fails to bring relief. It is a delicate means of affecting the suc- tion and should be used only by care- ful operators who are well acquainted with their implements. On some en- gine gangs the suck of each plow can be increased by a special suck regu- lator, and the bottomis can also be winged down by a special device for the purpose. On other engine gangs and on most horse plows the bot-
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toms can be winged down for a mo -. ment by running the frame out of level.
Excessive sidedraft may cause the molds to drop back sufficiently from their proper position in respect to the oncoming furrow slice to allow non-
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Fig. 3. The rear furrow wheel should be set to hold the landside away from the fur- row wall.
scouring. This is often the cause for the trouble when non-scouring oc- curs with 12-inch gangs. Of course, the remedy is to be found in the nitch as described above.
Rust on the moldboard as the cause for non-scouring is too familiar to deserve discussion. If the soil-work- ing surfaces fail to shed the soil properly when the plow is first taken
to the field, usually the desired land polish of these surfaces can be hasten- ed by increasing the depth of plowing for an hour or so. The lacquer on new plow bottoms can best be removed with varnish re- mover. If lye is resorted to for this purpose, the moldboard should be washed immediately after the appli- cation and wiped dry.
A gang plow which throws furrow crowns of unequal height cannot be said to be doing work of good qual- ity. This results in alternately high and low furrow backs throughout the field, the surface of which cannot be pulverized uniformly with the mini- mum of effort in the subsequent til- lage operations. With either a horse or engine gang, in which the frame is run level, the common causes for alternately high and low furrow crowns are: Colters not being set alike, and the front bottom cutting too wide or too narrow. The remedy for the first cause is obvious. On an engine gang the second cause can usually be overcome by adjusting the hitch; on a horse gang it can be over- come by shifting the front furrow wheel in or out on the frame by some such device for the purpose as is shown at A in Fig. 4. This figure also illustrates the methods of meas- uring the width of cut of the front plow, which should be the same as that of the rear bottom.
The set of the colters has a de- cided influence upon the draft of a plow and upon its quality of work. Ordinarily the colter bearing should be placed over the point of the share. In sod the blade should cut the en- tire depth of the furrow and a half- inch to land. In stubble it should penetrate from one-half to two-thirds of the depth of the furrow and should be set five-eighths of an inch to land. If a sharp colter blade fails to cut through heavy, wet corn stalks, try setting it a little closer to the shin of the plow, a little higher, and back on the beam in such a position that it can mount the trash and carry it down to shear it against the plow shin.
If difficulty is being experienced in getting under a heavy liver of fine surface trash, attach a six-foot piece of No. 9 wire to the yoke of each colter, letting the end of the wire drag along under the newly turned slice. The wire will stretch tight across the surface of the slice as it
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is raised and inverted, thus holding the trash in place until it is well covered. This makes an inexpensive and easily attached trash coverer.
The prospective tractor owner usu- ally seeks draft data on plows through which he may secure information in regard to the proper size of plow to use with a certain tractor. There is a lack of such data for both horse and engine gangs. Some work along this line has been done, however, and the results may be used as a fair indication of the draft of plows under certain conditions.
In order to compare the draft of different sizes of plows working at different depths it is necessary to have a basis for comparison by which the results may be reduced before direct comparison is possible. The unit of comparison for plow draft is the draft per square inch of furrow slice turned. Thus, if a 14-inch bottom is working six inches deep and has a total draft of 420 pounds, its draft per square inch of furrow slice turned is five pounds, found by dividing the total draft by 84, which is the cross section area (14x6) of the furrow. It is known that the draft per square inch is five pounds when a certain type of plow bottom is plowing six inches deep, the total draft of a gang containing four such bottoms at the same depth and under the same con- dition may be estimated roughly by multiplying the width of the plowed strip in inches by the depth in inches by the draft per square inch in pounds.
The data in the following table was secured in thesis work in the fall of 1904 by C. A. Ocock, who was then a student at the University of Illinois. Three different widths of stubble bottoms were used on a high- lift sulky frame. The tests were run in stubble on brown silt loam in good condition for plowing, and the speed of plowing was 21/2 miles per hour. The following table gives the draft in pounds per square inch of these plows at different depths.
14-inch 16-inch 18-inch Stubble Stubble Stubble
Depth
Bottom
Bottom
Bottom
4 inches 4.91
5.25
6.58
5 inches 4.42
5.23
6.35
6 inches 4.26
5.19
5.48
7 inches 4.17
4.92
5.41
8 inches 4.01
4.65 5.00
From this table the interesting in-
ferences may be had that as the width of the plow increases, within the limits presented, the draft per square inch increases; but as the depth of plowing increases the draft per square inch decreases.
Other data which these tests furn- ish indicate that increasing the depth of plowing a half adds about 35 per cent to the total draft instead of 50 per cent, and that the total draft is increased about 70 per cent instead of 100 per cent when the depth of plow- ing is doubled.
The data presented is far from con- clusive, but it may be taken as an indication of what may take place un- der similar conditions. It must be remembered that it was secured with horse plows in which a little sidedraft existed. In comparing the draft of horse gangs and engine plows the fact should not be lost sight of that usually the engine gang is heavier than the horse gang of the same capa- city, and that with some tractors no sidedraft need exist while with others there may be a considerable in- crease in draft, due to excessive side- draft.
The manufacturer designs his pow- er plow to work best at a certain speed. At purchasing time the opera- tor should remember that he will probably wish to plow deeper with the engine gang than with the horse plow, and he should exercise care to avoid purchasing a plow which is too large to be hauled by the tractor at the proper speed. Non-scouring and poor plowing by many outfits are caused directly by reduced speed.
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Fig. 4. If the front plow cuts wider than rear bottom a poor quality of work is al- wnya suro to result.
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SOME COMMON UNSOUNDNESSES
By Dr. A. S. Alexander, in Prairie Farmer
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AKE nothing for granted when
buying a horse. One should
make sure about doubtful things. If the eye cannot decide the mat- ter the hand may be employed to corroborate or disprove; but the eye should be the main dependence and the hand used only as a last resort. An Irishman does not like to buy a pig "in a poke." He wants to see and examine the "rint payer" and may even make the animal squeal to be sure that he is getting his money's worth. In just the same way one must make the most careful examination of every part of a horse, "size up" the entire combination of points and make sure that there is lack of vice, soundness of eyes, wind and limb, and perfect fitness for the special kind of work the animal will have to do.
A famous veterinary teacher once called upon his senior students to ex- amine a lame horse and state in writ- ing what they thought was the cause of lameness. The horse had a splint,
one sidebone and a small ringbone affecting the lame leg. To one or other of these three unsoundnesses each student in turn attributed the lameness. But one learns best by making mistakes and this truth was soon "rubbed in" by the teacher. Having collected the reports he told the smith who was standing by, to remove the shoe from the lame foot. Then a majority of the students no- ticed for the first time that the sole of the foot was covered with a thick leather pad. When the leather came off pus spurted from a nail prick wound which had been purposely hid- den. Lameness was due to the nail prick, not to splint, ringbone or side- bone, and the laugh was on the "boys." Never again would one of them be similarly caught and so a never - to - be - forgotten lesson was learned. Every intending purchaser should learn this lesson, too, and be a "doubting Thomas" until his hands have felt where the eyes could not definitely decide a mooted point.
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.Seek to deal with men of known integrity in business. If not expert, and the horse to be bought is a dear one, it will be good policy to employ a veterinarian to make a critical ex- amination. Better visit the stable when not expected and see the horse in the stall. There some things can be learned that will not be seen when the horse is warmed up. You should be able to enter and leave the stall on the left side of the horse, without being received with a bite or expelled with a kick. Note, too, if the horse digs a hole in the floor by pawing, or chews his manger and hay rack, which may indicate cribbing and wind suck- ing, or weaves from side to side, or pulls back on the halter. Make him "stand over" and note if he jerks up a hind leg, or hops over. The hopping may indicate spavin lameness, which quickly disappears when the horse is warmed up.
The jerking up of a hind leg may be accompanied by quivering of muscles and tail and such a horse is a "shiv- crer" or "crampy" and afflicted with incurable St. Vitus' dance. The symp- toms of the latter disease become more apparent as the horse backs out of the stall, but quickly subside with slight exercise. If the animal has "string halt" the jerking up of the hind legs is continued as long as the horse is in motion, he does not warm out of it. When a horse is brought out for inspection "on a run" or "dead jump" it is impossible to detect spavin lameness or chorca and even string halt may not be noticed. This will be more certainly the case if the horse is turned loose in deep snow, or plowed land, or in a straw bedded pad- dock. This commonly is done. Some- times an old plug that has scarcely animation enough to get out of its own way will kick up, strut and trot, proud as a peacock, when suddenly the halter shank, previously cut part way through, breaks and the old pil- grim imagines he has broken loose by his own great strength. This trick is often tried. Never allow the dealer to keep the horse "in the air."
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After making an examination in the stall watch the horse for a while as he stands at case on a level floor. Maybe he cannot stand at case. If a foot hurts, soon that foot will be thrust forward; if two hurt cach will
be advanced turn about; if four hurt the horse will rest each foot in turn. And do not forget to walk around the horse that every part may meet the eye. Often one side is a pretty pic- ture, the other marred. See both sides, for often the animal is turned toward the wall if an eye is out, a big bare spot present or some unsound- ness there that had best be kept hid- den. A "watch" or. "wall" cye can see, but it is unsightly. The tour of inspection around the horse discloses all such blemishes.
Remember about not buying a pig in a poke, so remove the blanket from all fancy harness and see that the halter has no springs and trusses to press down upon the nostrils to pre- vent high blowing and "roaring." Many a man has neglected to remove a horse's hood before buying and af- terward has discovered that it hid a cropped, lopped, or split ear, fistula of the base of the car, a "poll evil" or some unsightly blemish.
Don't get too close to the horse when making the preliminary exam- ination. Ex-Governor Hoard, of Wis- consin, once said that in farm business matters a man may hold a cent piece so close to his eye that it keeps him from seeing a big silver dollar a little further off. So if one rushes up and grabs a foot, before viewing what the French term the tout ensemble-the assemblage of all points-he misses the comprehensive estimate of the horse as a whole and that is of most importance. When one has looked the horse over from a little distance and from all points of view and has seen how the animal stands and be- haves it will be time enough to scru- tinize cach component part of his au- atomy. First we shall see hint move away and back, at a walk, then at a trot, and finally we shall gallop him. Be there when he stops and so decide as to the soundness of his "wind." It is not enough to test the "wind" by standing the horse close to a wall and suddenly threatening to strike him with a whip. The sudden fright may cause the animal to grunt loudly. but this does not necessarily prove that such a "bull" is unsound in wind.
Many sound horses grunt when so threatened, or even when one goes to mount. In the latter instances it is a nervous "expression" and nothing
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Sidebone
Spavin
serious. When watching the horse at rest one should note that he does not heave at the flanks, cough or pass gas from the rectum. These are the symptoms of "heaves"; but the "heavey" horse may be "shut" or "doped" with drugs so that tempo- rarily the symptoms do not show. Usually they will quickly appear if the horse is given all the hay and water he wants and then is galloped. Roaring sometimes is temporarily re- lieved by plugging the nostrils with a sponge or squeezed half lemon. Discharge is also prevented by this means. It is best to locate these at once than have them sneezed into the feed box when the horse is yours.
At both walk and trot the horse should go straight, level and true, each joint perfectly fixed, the soles of the fect well turned up, as he goes away, and no "padding," "winging," in or out, "forging," stumbling or toe dragging noticeable. Lameness should be absent. If the horse passes muster when in motion and his style, action and conformation are suitable. he next may be critically examined as he stands at rest. He should stand square and firm on each foot. The profile of the front and back of cach leg should show no abnormal bends, curves, puffs, swellings, or humps. If any one of these things is seen its nature will have to be carefully deter- mined. The eyes should be sound and of the same color. The pupils should
dilate in the dark and contract when the horse is brought into the light. Angular, wrinkled eyebrows and sunken eyes denote previous attacks of "moon blindness" (periodic oph- thalmia). "Smoky" or "opaque," or "pearl grey," or "curdy" appearance of the cornea (anterior chamber of the eye) denote more serious stages of the disease or blindness from cataract or glaucoma. A brilliant sparkling prominent eye (glassy eye") may be stone blind from paralysis of the ret- ina and optic nerve. The cars should neither be absolutely unused, nor ab- normally active. The former may in- dicate deafness; the latter, impaired vision, nervousness or vice.
See that a thread from car to ear under the forelock, does not keep lop cars upright and that a leaden ball, suspended from a thread in the car, is not preventing undue motion. The horse should let one handle his cars, his poll (back of cars), the top of the neck, where the color will bear, and the withers, where fistulous openings or their scars so commonly are found. Fighting against such handling indi- cates a reason for fear and the rea- son usually is that a twitch has been used on the car and the horse may be hard to shop, have sore neck from the collar, poll evil or fistulous with- ers, or have suffered a previous opera- tion for such discase,
Handle cach part upon which har- ness will have to bear and see that
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it is sound and free from sores, tu- mors or abcesses. The nostrils should be large, under command of the will, rosy pink inside, not slit and frec from abnormal discharge. See that the breath does not smell foul and that the teeth are sound and the jaws not under or over "short." Examine the back. It should be strong, broad, straight, free from sores and well muscled. Pinching the loins is un- necessary. A ticklish horse will squat when so handled but the test does not detect weak kidneys. Note that the ribs are well sprung, the underline fairly straight, the abdomen capacious, the flank not tucked up and the coupling short and strong. See that no wounds or abscesses are present high up on the right flank, as the re- sult of tapping for flatulant colic. With the left hand on the horse's loin, as a support, stoop and examine sheath, or udder as the case may be, and other parts high up in the groins.
Examine the tail, which should be strong, not artificial ("joined on") and not rubbed bare from itchiness. Lift it and see that the black skin below is free from tumors, the anus clean, well pursed up, free from scurvy sub- stances or streaks of mucous; or, in the mare, that the space between rec- tum and vulva is intact and that no discharge comes from the latter. Looking from the rear, compare one hip with the other. If one is "knocked down" that side will be steep. At cach side of the tail is the tuberosity of the ischium. Like the point of the hip (ilium) this often is fractured, leaving one side depressed. All parts of the shoulders, neck, barrel and hindquar- ters should be smoothly and deeply covered with sound muscles.
Now examine cach hoof. Cracks, rings, ridges and meatiness should be absent, frogs and bars prominent, soles slightly concave, heels wide, cor- onets (hoof heads) open and strong, hoofs waxy, smooth and ample in size. Object to a horse that has steep nar- row heels with a deep cleft in frog, also one that has chronic corns, chronic thrush, "dropped" (convex) soles, or hoof walls showing toc or quarter cracks.
Make sure that the elbows are free from hard or soft tumors or abcesses called "shoe boils" and that the knees
are free from hairless scars and are straight, wide, deep and strong. All joints should be large, clean, bony and strong. This is of the greatest importance. The joints cannot be too large so long as the size is made up of large, clean, sound bones, ligaments and tendons. Beware of puffs, meati- ness and bony growths which give the wrong sort of sizc. The knees should have perfect flexion, no matter what work the horse has to do. They should not be bent forward (buck knees) nor bent backward (calf knees). Splints close to the knee are serious; but low down, on an adult horse, they are practically harmless, unless struck by a shoe. Splints, ring- bones and spavins are bony excres- censes. Splints come on the cannon bones, along the course of the splint bones (small metacarpals and metatar- sals).
Ringbones are found high, medium or low, on the long pastern, and often involve the short pasterns. Bone spavins are found at the lower, front, inner aspect of the hock joints. Bog spavins are soft bursal distensions of the hock joints, above and in front of the seat of bone spavins. Thoro- pins are bursal distensions seen at the sides of the hocks, towards the rear and when pressed on one side bulge out on the opposite side. "Wind galls" are similar puffs in connection with the tendons at and Just above the fetlock joints. A curb appears as a hard enlargement giving a rounded bulging contour to the profile of the back of the hock joint, looking from the side.
· Splints are most easily seen by standing in front of the horse, then examining further by feeling the parts involved, first with the foot standing down firm, then with it off the ground. Ringbones are best seen from a side view of the profile of the long pas- tern. The hand may have to help in their detection. To examine for spay- ins look between the forelegs at the inner, lower profile of each hock. The hard "knob" on one hock probably will prove to be a bone spavin. A. small spavin is called a "jack" and it is apt to prove serious and grow to be a large spavin. Spavin may also be detected from a quartering view of the hock, or from the rear.
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Index
Automobile Owners' Directory 150-170
Breeders' Directory 101-113
Business Directory 117-149
Farmers' Directory 15-100
Tractor Owners' Directory
171-172
General Information: Farın Data
173
Tazewell County Agriculture
1
Tazewell County Agriculture
5
Tazewell County Officers
177
Tazewell County Percheron Association .. 10
12
Livestock Farmers' Medicine Chest .. 180
Plows, How to Adjust Horse and Tractor 184
Some Common Unsoundnesses. 189
183
INDEX TRIPLE GUARANTEE GOODS
AUTOMOBILES
Harvesters
Allen 161
Cadillac 14
Case 128
Chevrolet 124-143
Dodge
143
Deere Hay Rakes ..
137
Rock Island Side Delivery Rakes. 121
Manure Spreaders
Clover Leafe Manure Spreaders. 121
Deere Manure Spreaders. 137
New Idea
129
Miscellaneous Implements
Camp Bros.' Grain Loaders.
A
Deere Hay Loaders ..
137
Studebaker 153
Willys. Knight 128
AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES
Diamond Tires 143
Exide Batteries 163
Firestone Tires 153
Ford Parts 143
Lee Tires 156
Michelin Tires 156
Mobil Oil 156
Prest-o-Lite Storage Batteries. 156
Willard Batteries 143
BUILDERS' SUPPLIES
Atlas Portland Cement. 136-161
Beaver Board 136
King Ventilators 132
Johnson Varnishes and Floor Varnish 121
Kyanize Floor Varnish .. 132
CLOTHING AND DRY GOODS
Arrow Collars and Shirts ... 124
Holeproof Hosiery 124
Colleglan Clothing 124
Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothing. 124 Louden Barn Door Hang 132
Society Brand Clothing. 124
Style-Plus Clothing
157
Munsing Wear Union Suits and Under-
wear
124
Poros-Knit Underwear 124
FARM IMPLEMENTS Corn Pinnters
Case
129
I. H. C. Corn Planters.
129
Cream Separators and Milkers
DeLaval Separators .128 - 137
Empire Separators 121-132
Primrose Separators 109
Sharpies Separators 121-129-132
Cultivator
Busy Bre
199
Devre Cultivators
Case 129 Meadows Washers
1. H. C. Cultivators ...
121
Fences und Gates
Can't Sag Gates
136
Chantirler
132
Fahbanks, Marse & Co. % Engine ... 119-199
1. H. C. Han Engles
121-129
Grain Drills
Derre Grain Dillis ... 137
Deering Harvester
129
Deering Binder 129
Moline
129
Hay Tools
Dort
143
Elgin
158
Hudson
105
Liberty
149
Moline-Knight
163
Nash
162 154
Overland
123
Saxon
143
Mowers
Dain Mowers
Plows
Deere Plows
129-137
E-B Plows 129
La Crosse Tractor Plow
121-129
Moline Plows
121
Tractors
Avery Tractors
129
Case Tractors
128
Eigin Tractors
14S
Heider Tractors
A
Parrett Tractors 9
Peorla Tractors
179
Titan Tractors
129
Weber
MISCELLANEOUS HARDWARE
Buckeye Incubators
107-132
Keene Kutter Cutlery and Tools. 1ºS
Myers Hay Toois -. 139
Western Electric Lighting Plant .. 100
Porter Hay Tools . 19%
Myers Barn Door Track. 132
Dall Indoor Closets 13
STOVES AND BANGES
Alcazar Ranges
141
Detrolt Cnl Stoves 1:2
Garland Ranges 121
Majestic Furnaces and Ranges.
Monarch Ranges
132
Monitor Stoves and Ranges
Peorla - Lexington Ranges 132
Round Dak Furnaces 133
Round Dak Hanges 1
-1:7
YAth Century Furnace 4
WASHING MACHINES
Alto Watchers 1.5
('amup Power Washers.
Have Power Wisheim.
13 :2
101 -1.11010 MIN
ommilty Styaware
121
Hosting Kodaks 146
Harman Trunks
Howpler Kitchen
121-141
BAZORA
Wagons
1º9
Oakland
137
Tazewell County Reid's Yellow Dent Seed Corn Association.
Value of Labor.
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The DIXON Lawn Mower
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This mower will cut grass 7 inches high
2-in. 14-in. 16-in. 18-in. 20-in
Patent Thrust, Ball Bearing Guaranteed in Every Way, and Dust Proof. Both the upper and lower knives are crucible steel. Wheels are 10 in. high and the gear is on the inside rim of the wheels, giving great power and speed. The reel knife, 6} in. in diam- eter, has four blades. The lower bed knife is crucible lip steel fastened to floating knife bed. This bed knife bar rests on tie rod that holds the back ends of the mower rigidly together.
Clipper Lawn Mower Co. DIXON, ILLINOIS
Do Your TRADING With the Kirkpatrick House Furnishing Company .. ::
"The Store With the Furnished Cottage"
ESTABLISHED IN 1888 BY J. H. Kirkpatrick, THE AUCTIONEER
518-520-522-524 North Main St. BLOOMINGTON, ILL.
Many times you have read an advertisement in Prairie Farmer of something you would like to buy, but you did not know where to find the store that sold it. You decided to look for this article when you were next in town and you tried several stores without finding it. Then you gave up in disgust. A two-cent stamp or a postcard addressed to the manufacturer saying "Please advise me who handles your goods in my town. If you have no dealer in my town, give me the name and address of your nearest dealer", would get you accurate information by return mail. Try it. It works and saves time.
ESTABLISHED 1865
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Oco. Agle & Sons, Inc. 207-209 S. CENTER ST.
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Mail Orders Appreciated and Giren Prompt Attention
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PHONES: BELL 130, KINLOCH 350 Bloomington, Ilinois
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FARMERS AND BREEDERS, TAZEWELL COUNTY
J. E. KENNEI.L & CO.
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Belgian Horses
Phone No. 5 R. F. D. No. 2
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ILLINOIS
C. M. SMITH
W. H. SMITH
W. G. SMITH
Walnut Row Stock Farm
SHORTHORN CATTLE
Glenview Supreme, No. 460716; Sire, Silver Dale. Grand sire, Avondale; Grand dam, Rosewood 86th, is at the head of our herd.
Glenview Supreme is a double Rosewood. Where Rosewoods are offered they top most of the sales. At the last International a grandson of Avondale and Rose- wood 86th was a first prize winner and sold for $6,600.
At the last sale of imported shorthorns a Rosewood topped the sale, $7,000; and at the last Bellow Bros.' sale another Rosewood sold for $8,100.
We are planning for our sixth annual sale of Short- horn cattle, Percheron horses and Poland China brood sows in February, 1918.
W. H. SMITH & SONS EUREKA, ILL.
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