The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-26
A MARVELLOUS PERFORMANCE.
A Number Of Gentlemen and Ladies Wit
ness a Second Exhibition OF the
Hancock Rotary Plow.
The Appreciation Of Farmers Who Saw the
Work Accomplished by the
Rotating Discs.
A Factory to Be Erected In or ear Indian
apOIiS at Which They Will
Be Made.

A second exhibition of the Hancock
rotary plow was gwen yesterday after
noon on the farm OF DE-. Joseph Haas, about
three miles out on Clifford avenue, near
the Belt road. As ON the occasion of the
previous exhibition of this wonderful
pillow, every one was thoroughly delighted
with the performance. Among those pres
emit were John b. Conner, OF the Indiana
Farmer; John Osterman. ex-county treas
urer; John Strange, ex-County Treasurer
Hanway, +. M. douglass. E. J. Leonard, A.
III. Harcourt, l.. d. Railsback, Peter Mo-
Kinstray, Vincent Mcdaniel. George w.
Powell, J. III. Spahr. Smith H. Railsbsck,
and O number of ladies. L.. A. Whitehurst,
q large ranchman of Gilray, Cal, a
delegate to the Chicago convention, who
happened to be in the city. was also
present.
The expressions of approval of this mar
velous pillow could not but be gratifying to
the inventor. NJ. T. Hancock. who directed
the trial. Mr. Hancock, as previously
stated, Is forming a company here with
S1OO. 900 capital for the purpose of manu-
featuring the Hancock rotary pillow in this
city. which he considers to have all the ad-
yantages necessary for q mandatory of
this character, as well as admirable ship
ping facilities, because of its railroads
reaching out in all directions to exactly
the kind of farming lands that Will need
this great pillow.
That certainly is a wonderful plow."
remarked Mr.. Whltehurst, the California
ranch man; Il consider that a great lnven-
ton"
The gentlemen present followed the plow
as. cutting TO a depth of eight inches. it
turned up by means of it's two discs q fur
row twenty inches In Width In ground that
certainly was about as tough q piece as
could well be found for tho purpose. The
horses went along easily. the draft being
light, and at q gait that indicated from
four to five acres as a days work. Now aud
then the rotary discs would strike a granite
powder or an old root lett from q stump.
There were no points to be broken, and the
discs rolled over unframed.
This pillow, as previously explained, is TO-
tary IN principle, having two rolling discs
twenty-four inches In diameter. made OF
sheet steel. convex on the land side and
concave on the other. These are set at an
angle. inward to the land, nearly forty
FIVE degrees. One.hGlf Its diameter in ad-
vance of the other. Each of these discs
rolls on the same axle, aud each cuts ten
inches of land, making a total of twenty
inches. The bearings of the axle are SO
shielded as TO protect the oiled part com
pletely from DIRT. On the land runs a cast
iron wheel, and in the furrow. at an angle
OF iorty-tive degrees. runs another light
cast-iron wheel. bearing against the land
at the bottom of the turrow. The latter
wheel holds tho discs to their places
The pillow In motion, cutting twenty
inches in width and eight inches in depth,
showed by the dynamometer attached a
draft of 325 to $50 pounds. There were two
horses attached to the plow, and they car
| RED it along ut about the same draft re-.
auired in using an ordinary steel plow, cut
ting twelve inches In width and eight In
depth.
This plow," said J. ID. Conner, as he
watched the performance. lis an entirely
new departure. 1t Overcomes the ola wedge
draft. which has never before been gotten
over. l consider Ii q valuable invention"
"A man will never hang up on "a root
with that plow." remarked A. Ii. HarcOurt.