The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-11-06
Mr.. d. w. Smith
OF Howell Prairie

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web" Smith is everywhere acknow-
lodged to be one Of the best farmers
in the Willamette valley In fact it
would be impossible to find a more /
painstaking, thorough farmer east or
west than is Mr.. Smith. He has fill ;
lowed a walking plow Al years, and his
fields are laid out in lands as straight
as a chalk line.
He drives straight and he wants the
stubble turned under.
Mr.. Smith watched his neighbor G.
M Walker, using one of our Benicia
Hancock disc plows for two years,
and finally concluded that It was
worth trying. He asked us two weeks
ago II We would let him try IL in his
fields, and said that il It would plow
straight, hold to land, and turn the
stubble under he would likely want
It.
We told him that he could be the
Judge and jury on that question Mr.
Smith took out q two-disc pillow two
weeks ago today, and on the follow
ing Monday we started It for him. II
is fitted, as usual. with front and rear
wheel controllers, curved mouldboards
and jointers It holds to land, wet or
dry, draws without any side draft, pull
verizes the ground and turns the stub
bic under perfectly.
That fills the bill for Mr.. Smith and
he kept the plow, and is perfectly sat
isled with it. In fact. he says no plow
made could do better work than he is
doing. And the swales, he has never
been able to plow anywhere near as
well. In fact, he tried the plow when
the ground was pretty dry, in all kinds
Of land and has used it since the rain,
and It meets every condition.
We are glad to sell plows to men
like Mr.. Smith, for it's a mark of the
superiority Of our plow, when such
farmers buy It, and stop walking.
Drop him a line, II you want TO
know how he likes il.
Mr. c. M Walker. who was the first
customer that ever used a Benecia
Hancock disc plow in the valley here,
came in about two weeks since and got
his second two-disc plow. He is now
using two of these. He has 13-year
old boy driving four horses to one of
these. cutting "a inches of ground.
The boy is riding and taking it easys
the horses are having a better time
than they would on a 16-inch chilled
plow, and Mr.. Walker is about two
acres a day ahead on the deal.
II that isn't economy in farming,
what is?
Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Walker are but
two out Of over 60 farmers to whom
We have sold Benicia Hancock disc
plows in the last two years.
Drop us a line and wen send you
names of nearby farmers who are us.
ing the Benecia. We have sold lot
more Of them this fall. and they are
going out right along.
There's this broad difference be
tween the Benecia Hancock and all
others: The Benecia Is absolutely un.
der the control of the diver, in prai.
rie or hillside; it turns the soil and
stubble under, cuts an even furrow
with both discs. and does not compel
the horses to cut their legs off on the
tugs trying to hold 1t TO land.
Other disc plows have no means for
the driver TO control the plow on hills
or hard land. None of them have
jointers, and in most cases the horses
have a lot of side draft TO overcome
by the tugs. In fact the manufactur.
ers Of such plows should be taken in
charge by the society for the proven.
tion Of cruelty TO animals
There are a great many more things
We could add, but wen save them for
, another time. Meanwhile. don't forget
that cur Monitor Double Disc Drills
are the best things In ihe field; that
our Hero flaming mills will clean the
grain with the least labor OF any mill
aud that our Buffalo Pitts harrows, in
spike and spring tooth. are the best
things Of the sort on the market We're
always glad to show our lines, wheth,
er you are looking or buying. Drop in
when in town.
Special NotIce-Our rear wheel con.
troller for disc plows is patented, and
the patent is pending on the iointer
DO not make any Of these things, OF
buy any anywhere but here, for we
mean TO protect ourselves.