The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-09-27
THE FORD DEMONSTRATIONS

pany made a fine demonstration of
the Lincoln car and Fordson tractors
with farming implements made
especially for attaching to the Ford
sons. The demonstration was made
under the auspices of the w. E.
Bills company, opening with parade
on the streets, and following with
operations at the city waterworks
tract.
In the parade were several Ford
son tractors, one drawing a truck
loaded with gravel, one loaded with
coal, one with a saw mill attached,
one with a road grader attached and
one with an exhibit of Ford parts,
including motors with the working
parts exposed to view, an electric
lighting plant for generating light
and power, one with a unitiller at
tached and pillow in the grip of the
untitled ready for work. All of
these outfits, on arrival at the pump
ing plant, got busy in their respective
lines, the pillow gliding up and down,
turning SKIS inch burrows of very
hard, dry ground, the saw mill work
ing up stove wood, the road grader
carving the hard clay and gravel
from the middle of the road and
spreading it in the low places, the
gravel truck pouring out it's load for
the grader to work into the roadbed,
and the load of parts and implements
laying out it's machines for inspec-
ton.
The FOrdsons are so built that
they can strip down to almost moth
ing, but the power parts and hook up
with any of the other specially built
machines that connect with them.
The unitiller is a unit to hook on
behind the tractor, sort of sulky-
truck with crossbar for hitching on
a plOw, gang of plows, or a disc
harrow, a spring tooth harrow, al
meadow or field cultivator or a
fresno scraper. The unitiller has
the wheels and levers needed for
controlling any of the implements at
tached to it, so in the case of the
pillow, only the stub beam and pillow
bottom need be bought. In case of
the others, nothing but the clamp or |
hitch is needed, and the unitiller
wheels and levers are the control |
This reduces the cost of the COM
plete outfits in the proportion of
" Ou0. liz Ou6
costing about $3.50 here, will re-
ceive and operate attachments that
will replace $500 worth of imple-
ments operated on the old plan of
5ulky and levers or the standard con-
troll for each one bought with each
machine. A sulky costing about
800 of the old or present style
1rawn by horses, is replaced by a
blow bottom costing 1872 and is COM (:
)lete, strong and better controlled
These machines are all built so
hort and compact that the outfit
,an work wherever team can work,
AN pillow and cultivate small tracts
o as good advantage as a team, can
,low and cultivate in orchards,
where the limbs are too low for
lorses to go under, can set the ma
hine to either side SO they do not
ave to run the tractor under the ;
rees unless they want to, and can
ct it over so they can pillow and !;
right up TO a renee or ditch
yhere a horse cannot go. The
ractor does not get tired like a 1
orse, can plow in hard dry ground !;
nd work any number of hours with /
ut pausing to rest.
Land that would be considered too +:
ry and hard to pillow with horses, n
an be plowed rapidly with the q
ractor, and in any event, the tractor
ill rush the blowing thru and get Il
finished in the fall where teams I:
7ould not finish, or the tractor will Il
low given amount in the spring II
lille it is in perfect condition for
eeding, when horses would either II
Ike more time or there would have II
, be more men and teams to get the II
lme results in the same time. The II
dvantage Of blowing all and seeding
while the moisture is right, adds Il
luch value to the crop.
Ford is operating coal and iron
ines and coke ovens and has found II
way to save a by product of the
ike ovens for fertilizer that is very II
aluable. 1t is known as ammonium
llphide, and is 95 per cent pure;
IN be dissolved in water and ap-
led as liquid for immediate results
can be spread on dry like corn
cal. Fifty pounds Of 1t is the
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