Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1914 — New Motor Plow. [ARTICLE]

New Motor Plow.

An English firm is putting out a new plow that is propelled by a farm-horse power motor, that is much like the horse-drawn implement, and can be used successfully for any of the ordinary agricultural tasks, such as plowing, cultivating, scuffling, skinning, hoeing and drilling. As it is only three feet high and two feet four inches wide, it can be used in places, where horses cannot work, between fruit trees in orchards, in vineyards and hop gardens, and in rubber, tea and coffee plantations. Unlike other motor plows, it has only two driven road wheels, and the attendant who walks behind it runs the engine and guides the plow by means of star wheels. With one wheel running in a furrow, the plow virtually steers Itself, and needs little attention except at the end Of the furrows. The makers assert that the machine will do nearly twice as much work a day as a horse-drawn plow, at about one-half the cost , anacre. The correctness of the assertion naturally depends somewhat upon the nature of the land on which the njac chine is set to work.