Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-05-01
PLOWS FOR THE WEST
Two-FurroW Gang Implement
Most Popular for Horses.
Percentage Of Work Done by Mechanl
cal Power 10 Rapidly Increasing
Each Year-Greater Variety
Of Equipment Required.

The walking pillow is not practica,
implement for regular use on the av.
craze farm in the west, owing To ito
waste OF human labor. The large area
cultivated makes the two-furrow gang
blows the most generally popular
when pulled by horses. The large area
Of level land. free from distractions
has created remarkable field for tina
engine gang pillow. and the percentage
OF blowing done by mechanical power
Is rapidly increasing each year. In
this section the mold-board plow is by
far the most popular. writes l.. W.
Ellis in the Denver Field and Farm
The disk pillow Is used considerably in
land which has first been subdued BY
the use OF the moldboard. When the
soil contains much clay or gypsum
and lime. the steel moldboard scours
better than the chilled. Cast shares
can be used with either moldboard In
all but few soils. and are cheaper
than the steel lays The use OF larger
animals has been accompanied by Z
gradual increase IN the average size
OF plows even In the last decade
on the irrigated farms the two.way
sulky plow is growing In favor. owing
to the fact that no dead burrows arr
left 10 interfere with the distribution
Of water. This Is a curious and un
premedltated adaptation or pillow
originally designed especially for hllly
ground In New England. and IL Is
about the only thing We had back in
the Pennsylvania mountains Disk
blows are used TO subdue much OF the
sage brush prairie found Ia the ives,
and Increases In favor toward the
southern ATTITUDES. The topography
and size OF our grain farms Ia Colo
RADIO. Oklahoma. Texas and Sew Mex
leo favor the use OF mechanical power
and engine gang plo~s Probably four.
ffths OF the traction outfits Include
the disk engine gang Conditions In
our western states require greater
variety OF farm equipment than 10 any
other section and practically every
tyne OF pillow found elsewhere IN the
+ United States II used Here the land
varies from level TO mountainous. the
farms from tiny patches OF highly val
liable fruit and truck crops to I'm.
mense grain ranches.
We have all climates and attitudes.
The great diversity OF crops. the saria-
ton In kind and depth OF soil. naks
the depths OF blowing widely different
In different sections. Not only are the
conditions varied In the extreme. but
much more severe than those prevail
NIX east OF the Rocky mountain pla
teaus and the demand for any par,icu
lar type OF pillow IL limited Neither
machinery nor agriculture Is standard
lzad u Is therefore dinicult 10 inter
est eastern manufacturers 10 provit
INK piows fully adapted 10 our loca
Deeds The same conditions discour
aye the establishment OF factories OF
he western coast. although many cir
-umstanccs are favorable Building'
are cheaper than In the east and laoo
often as cheap. Crude ell furnishes
leap fuel and freight rates on ra'
material from eastern mines are les
. than on finished products Only loca
3 manufacture OF CloffF tAuNf ~ '"~'
: ern makers will result In plows sau'
factory for every condition. IN
plows must be made heavier. stronger
/ 81 better material and more Simple
The sand and gravel In the soil cal
Tor chilled. rather than soft center
! steel in plow bottoms and In dry ian
= ,he disk pillow Is popular u ALLOW
blowing to be done in the fall IN
pumlce in volcanic ash roils ncoess
,ates the use OF n chilled plo" l"
soil is more easily pulyerized. henc
4 lower. stralghter and less safp'
corved moldboard In used than IN III
heavy soils Prairie breakers are ~
: extensively used