Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-03-03
Swivel Flows.

The numerous manifest advantages at.
tached to a pillow that makes no dead fLrrows
and with which you can begin upon one side
of field large or small, aud pillow back and
forth until the field is finished, have led to
the expenditure of vast amount Of inveu-
tive talent upon this class of plows. Several
important problems in mechanics are 10.
volved in the perfection of the swivel pillow,
aud many have doubted whether they could
ever be made to do as good work as the old
Landslide implements.
The principal trouble with the swivel pillow
is, that its landing and its dip are necsssa.
rily the same, and as the latter cannot be
made to exceed certain amount flor other
wise the pillow would bury itself IN short
distauee) the landing cannot be entirely reg
ulated by tho set Of the pillow, but must, in
part, depend upon the length of the yoke or
the evener.
Now a good many farmers do not know
this, and good many who do know it, will
not take the pains, or 60 to the expense, to
fit up separate rig for swivel blowing, and
consequently cannot get good work out Of
such pillow.
Another difficulty to be overcome in the
swivel pillow, Us heretofore made, is that the
cutter, it fixed in the beam, will not be in
line with the SHARE since the landing changes
from side TO side, with each reversal. The
result of this want Of coincidence between
cutter and share is to increase the draft, and
make the pillow more difficult to hold.
Tha 4. -
character as to make Landslide pillow per-
feet nuisance. and we have at every fair, for
a number Of years, examined the new styles
OF swivel pows, to 6nd one that would obvi.
ate the above named aud other difficulties
attached to the earlier inventions; and es.
pecially have we looked for a one-horse
swivel that would allow the horse to 20 in
the furrow.
A few years ago, when the state fair was
at st Johnsbury. pillow caught our eye that
seemed likely to fill the bill. On inquiry,
we learned that it was the invention OF MIR
Augustus Sanborn, for many years employed
by the Fairbankses, when pillow making wasan
extensive department Of their business, and
an inventor Of great ingenuity in this line.
Since that time Mr. Ssnborn has been studi.
ously devoting his time to improving every
detail about these plows until he thinks he
has got perfect pillow, in which are COM
bined all the merits Of Landslide and swivel,
without the faults Of either. During the
past year Mr. Stnborn's plows have been
manufactured at an agricultural implement
factory in Connecticut and have been quite
extensively introduced under the name OF
the Charter Oak plow," though we think
the state-where they were invented entitled
them rather to be named the "Green Mount
ain"
But whatever their name, and wherever
made, we determined to have one Of them,
and, after using it for a season, we fnd il
to be so entirely satisfactory that we have
ordered second (one-horse), and friends in
the vicinity who have seen and tried the one
we are now using, are quite satisfied that
Mr. Sanborn's claims in regard to the merits
OF his plows are fully borne out by their per-
Torrance.
The following are the distinctive merits Of
the Sanborn plows, as demonstrated in prac-
tice; |. They will turn level land, as we'll
and pulverize it much better than the best
landslide plows. 2. 1t works equally well
in stubble or sod. 3. 1t is of easy draft, SO
easy that we have run the two-horse size,
which We now have, with a single horse, in
stubble ground, for half day at a time with
out difficulty. 4. The mould.board does not
clog, and pulverizes the whole furrow slice
perfectly, in this respect far exceeding any
pillow we ever had. .. The cutter, though
stationary, is always in line with share and
Landslide, there being a self-acting draft rod
which lands the pillow perfectly, thus dispens-
ing with the necessity for any special rig for
these plows. The cevs and wheel frame
are combined, and regulated with a single
bolt. Z. The one-horse pillow has a swinging
draft rod and gravitatlug latch, that allows
the horse TO walk 10 the furrow. And
finally, these plows are stsadier working,
easier to hold, less liable to get out Of order,
do not load in sticky soils, and arc better
made than any plows we ever knew and
they are sold at reasonable prices. Such be.
ing the case, land we do not hesitate to risk
our personal guarantee that such is the case, ]
we do not see how any farmer can afford to
do without them.
We have written this notice unknown 10
Dir Sanborn, and simply in consequence oil
our perfect satisfaction with the pillow re.
ceived by US last spring in return for pos.
tai order for its price forwarded by Us. As
we have said, We are going to have another
and many of our friends are going to order
them. AS we count all our readers in that
list, We share our experience with them, aud
advise them to send to tho Hgganum (what
a name y Manufacturing Company, at Hig
gauum, Connecticut, for 4 price list. They
don't pay us for this notice, either directly OF
indirectly, and our only object 10 giving it H.
that our readers may know that a perfect
swivel pillow has at last been invented, aud
invented by a VermOntcr, of cOurse.-Ver.
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