The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-11
THE CALL WATT CO.
AND THEIR EXHIBITS
Oldest House on the Grounds.
The Unit Road
Machine.

Nl2Cnlne.
The CaI,-Watt Company, Of No. III
South fifteenth Street. the Oldest farm
implement house In Richmond, are eN-
tensive exhibitors OF the state Fair.
They occupy good space In the agri-
cultural implement department and
lievc II well arranged for exhibition
purposes.
Their attractive show consists OF "a
general line Of farming implements,
such as plows disc cultlvators,
walking and riding cuitiSators,
field rollers. disc burrows. Empire
grain and fertilizer drills and ferititZer
distributors and corn planters; an laht,
but not least, the Unit road mtchine.
which is wonderful and most iiseiu'
road shaker. that will enable farmer
ID work Ills own farm roads ut small
cost, or counties aud towns to 10 Eoon
work where the larger machines cum
not we'll be used. No Implement CD
| the grounds has attracted more attei-
ton than The Unit road machine. Ihe
Call-wait Company arc the agents 70.
| 1t in all the territory from Marylsna
| 10 the Gulf. east OF the Mississippi,
ami most Of IT so far Jas Missouri,
! Arkansas and Texas are concerned
| Within the past two years the Call
Watt Company have sold over 4ee OF
them. The unit" was formerly manu-
| featured only in New York, bnt so
extensive has become the trade OF the
(. Richmond house on them, arrange
| ments have been completed Tor the
| manufacture of the Call Watt Cous-
pany.s supply in this city, and hence
| forth the machine will be II Richmond
| product. The Unit" is extensively
| nsed on country roads and unpaved
streets in elites and towns. The city
| of Richmond has two OF them IN use
on Its earth streets. and they give
perfect satisfaction
How the Name Comes.
The Unit" is so called because IT.
lbas but one wheel and takes but ono
1 team and one man to operate 1t.
! 1T is supported mainly by the wheel,
4 which Is Hanged to make II run In
1 line OF draft its axle being secured
4 10 Il section of angle iron. which
1 serves as continuation of the pole
/ and resembles Il plow beam.
Tie moldboard, six feet In length,
4 Is set at an angle OF IS degrees with
1 the beam, and covers about four and
4 one-half feet. a small wheel Is placed
/ behind Its front end to$carry that part
| when necessary, and behind II Is the
4 drivers platform.
i BY means of the levers both ends
OF the tnoldbs1rd are under control OF
Il ! Y
1 easily turned around In narrow roads
to trim up short sections, etc. When
turning. and going to and fro, tho
blade Is carried entirely free from
4 the ground.
The inducement 10 got up this ma
4 chine came from seeing horses abused
4 trying to work the expensive and en-
i tensiye so-called road machines, weigh
1 Ing a ton or more. and carried on the
/ edge of scraper blade, in which con-
i dttion no six horses can work them
4 properly, their labor being wasted
j dragging heavy, cumbersome ma
lchlne over ground in such an 4unscien--
4 tific manner.
The display of Empire grain and
fertilizer drills ana corn planters, for
A (which the Call-WAtt Company are the
! Richmond agents. Is complete and In
sEteresting 1t is in charge of Mr.. s. *,
Miller, Of Lynchburg, who Is the gem
u eral agent Of the Shortsville, N. ",
Il factory for Virginia and parts OF West
i Virginia and North Carolina. Mr..
n hIIler's district headquarters and ware.
5|house arc in Lynchburg.
The Famous pluWs.
Tho, old established business Of tho
slCall-Wntt Company was started in this
& lofty by George Watt in the year 1870
q The house has always enjoyed q large
a trade throughout the South. and their
4 famous Watt plows, 'Crown' and
4|"Crescent,,'a are known in every ssouth-
4 ern4 S tate. q 80
Il Thuy5 have also had for years a good
I TRADE In their plows in India, Australia,
! and other British possessions. On these
4 countries the English government does
:. everything in It's mower to /. encourage
!, agriculture. The government agents
I buy plows and other farm implements
. and sell them to sllclisoG The farm CHS as
), |are able to buy them; to others they
4 rent them ut a nominal SUM- and 70
!. |tIe very iinpecuniosu, who are able To
/ neither nor rent but who IS show an
I. |lnclinatlon to use them, the agents
l furnish the ploWs 4 rec.
4 RIO meet these demands the govern
!, ment ngentss have stet all. the m lScs9
4 Of plows from very part Of the orld.s
n and seletted for l,ernlnnellt use such
Il as are best adapted to the country,
y The Cnll-Watt plows have stood tho
n test, and thus the old established
4 house has built IN y arg 9 trade In
Il the countries named botl 18th the
z government and with individuals ami
1.-the trade. These fplows have from time
.I5to time been put on exhibition md
81 tested at agricultural fairs or assein-
( lhlies Instituted by thu British gov
Y |3ernmentStn It's far away provinces for
1.-the encourn cement of agrlculture, nnd
L diplomas have been awarded gtlra
"a lplows time and again, Some of these,
I (which are framed and hang In tho
4 office Of Il the Call-yVatt Co mpany, nre
4 4 ana printad on one 8 tde In a. Kind OF
Il IIindoo languag &c, with the ngllsll
-F|trans ion on tn Oh 81 to i'd ~ n hese
!: pthlnen III an Il q gnl mud the
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