The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-12-17
Neutrality-suspicious..
REPLACING FONLERs.
II Does the Work Is Comment
Of Managers On New Amer
lean Invention

The Lurline yesterday brought two
more 75horsepower tracklayer pillow
sets for the plantations Eleven gas
engine pillow sets of improved construc.
tion and design have been sold by
Theo. II. Davies & Company to sugar
and pineapple plantations during the
last three Ih0ntha These outfits, known
as the Best Traeklaysr, are rnanufac.
tured at Oakland, California, by the
c. l.. Best Company. 49,
The tractors, developing thirty forty
and seventy.ive horsepower respec-
lively, are Of the caterpillar type. The
pillow sets accompanying them are OF
the simplest and strongest construct ou.'
The whole outfit at Oaee appeals 10 the.
average plantation TnRn ON that ac-
count. These implements are simple
in construction and as near fOol-proO
as any agricultural machinery can be.
Made In America T..
! The Best Trarklayer Is in operation
at Wahiawa on two of the pineapple
plantations, and John Hind, the vete-
ran Kohala sugar planter, approves OF
them and In trying them out. That of
itself is guarantee of quality.
1.-The Tracklayer does as good work
rs the standard Fowler pIsws, +" George
Angus said yesterday, "and will work
faster and cheaper. 1t costs less in
the first place and we believe IL destin,
ed to displaee the more cumbersome
steam pl6Ws and stationary engines
heretofore used. The tractor climbs
hills, or works on side-hills. In Calf
fornia they are breaking up tule marsh
es with IL, and il will travel over
stumpy and strong ground.
| "Here, on this Island ! have, seen
| the Best Tracklayer plows, turn under
guava stumps six inches through at the
butt LaBtana or small brush is sim.
ply pie, the outfit waltzes right
through lhntana without hitch. All
that Is necessary in breaking guava
and lantana land is to cut the brush
low enough TO give clearance for the
| pl0w frame which stands thirty six
inches above the SHARE he stated.
It Buries Trash
| "What we think this outfit is going
% be best for it's turning under cane
trash. The three-gang pillow works on
a three-cut plan. At1the top. there is
a disc pillow with sharp cutting edge.
Below that is sixteen inch mould
board share and beneath the would
board a subsoiler, The disc cuts the
trash and turns it into the furrow
where the mould board covers it. With
this implement a layer Of trash a foot
thick can be buried aud the whole soil
bed stirred to a depth. of thirty inches
without turning the sour subsoil up ia
the surface. 1t thus turns q bed for,
Etyseight inches md thirty inches deep
at one operation. .~'
Implements In. Tandem
ain addition to the gang pillow we
have n disc gang that turns tenfoOt
bed ten to sixteen inches deep without
subsoiling it, and ten-fOOt disc dOu:
ble-rank harrow. These can be worked
tandem by one tractor leaving the seed
bed mellow and in perfect condition
for planting. There are no cast-iron
parts in either the tractor or the I'll
lage implements. They are built OF
forty point carbon steel and hard iron
throughout.
i I'm California where q large mum
Der of these tractors are in use some
great records have been established,
! Mr.. Angus said. Libby, MeNeill an'
, Libby are doing as good work here
they tell me. | will say this, that
believe we can pillow cane land, cover
ing in the trash, and subsoiling to thu
depth of thirty inches at q cost OF
bout $50 per acre and that is a gOO'
, deal better than any other outfit cal