The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-01
SMALL FARMERS FIND
TRACTORS PROFITABLE
Motorized Farming Now Possible on
Almost Amy Sized Farm in Amy
Part of Country.

Even the ten-acre farmer can now
use n tractor and make 1t pay says
J. B. Bartholomew, president of the
Avery company. OF Peoria, Illinois.
This company is father OF the Avery
$40 tractor. the smallest and lowest
priced tractor made, as well as five
larger sixes-ra size for every sized
farm and any kind of work. 1t is an
swering all the power needs on the
small farm and is filiing long felt
want for light power for the many
small jobs Of the large farm.
This is a new idea in small frac-
tor outfit Heretofore the idea has
been that the only farmer who could
use a tractor was the man with a great
expanse Of land, with large fields and
no fences in the way. Tractor con-
struction during the past few years
has done away with this idea entirely.
Farmers can now operate tractors
that are not only small enough to fit
the small sized farms but can get
them around the field as easily. and
In many cases more easily than they
could a team Of horses They can
pillow right up 10 the fence lines, back
into fence corners and drop the plow's
and turn over practically every disable
foot Of the deld
This new Avery machine introduces
another particularly valuable feature
in the double plows for hillside plow-
ing Two piows can be attached to
the rear of the machine To throw the
furrow slices 70 either side. The
farmer alternates the use % the rlows,
using one piow while travelling in one
direction and The opposite plow COM
ing back thus always throwing the
furrow slice downhill
Small tractors such as these take a
mighty waiiop out Of the Ugh. work
that has been set aside for horses
where the farmer Is using a larger
tractor for his heavier work. For pull
ling drills and seeders. mowers. hay
rakes, the manure spreader. and sinai
lar com paratively light loads ahou.
the farm and for hauling produce to
market these small machines are put
ting the horse out ~ business on many
farms
And this ia as IL should be Twenty
five million horses and mules are
literally eating their heads off every
year Their value including harness
and other equipment to fit them for
work Ia estimated al about three bill
lion dollars aud il costs about two bill
Efpu 70 maintain them. Do you know
af any other source Of power that
costs 80 much compared with its
valuee
/ The average mind can hardly swal-
/ low the fun meaning OF these figures
exec pJ that they are great mass, To
make them palmer let us say that
I they represent one-fourth Of every
crop raised annually in the entire
( United States II means enough food
to feed 40. loco. 600 people. 1t means
thai If YOU farm zoe acres that fifty
acres Of your farm Will be the proper
ton turned over to support horses and
mules.
/ Why then should anyone stand ur
/ and say. Is the tractor a success
/ has it come to stay" Most assuredly
1.-THE tractor has come and its a lucky
day for US that il did come, Mechani-
( cal power costs FAR less per unit than
horse or any animal power, Its feed
! is pumped from the bowels of the
earth and allows mankind 10 use more
! of the earth's surface 20 raise crops
I needed for his own consumption.
I The horse Is going out OF business
land before long We shall see. moi
tractors cutting hay crops. but little
Tor no hay crops at all, and in thei,
place will stand waving crops Of
wheat, rye. corn and other crops FOL
( human consumption.