Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — Plowing by Electricity! [ARTICLE]

Plowing by Electricity!

An electric plow has been brought out by Messrs. Zimmerman & Company, of Haile, Germany. A chain is stretched around the field in which the apparatus is to be used, and run? over a sprocket wheel on the motor, which is thus able to wind itself along and drag the plow after it. The cable to the motor is carried on a number of small trolleys running over the ground. The length of the cable is sufficient to reach across the field, as the motor, as it winds itself backward and forward, swings the cable over the ground. By starting work on the side nearest the motor and working up the field away from it, the cable does not foul the plow. The trials of the installation are said to have been exceedingly satisfactory.