Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 23 | Nebeker Uses Tractor on Farm

Nebeker Uses Tractor on Farm Modem power methods used on big tract for hauling and stationary work. Perhaps the most striking example of what modem methods will accomplish in farming is furnished by the results obtained on United States Marshal Aquila Nebeker 's farm at Laketown, Utah. Mr. Landes of the Landes Machinery company, with offices at Second West and South Temple streets, states that Mr. Xebeker adopted the Avery tractor after deliberating and studying his needs for a long time. Many of his friendB stated that conditions on his farm would prevent the profitable use of the tractor, but aftor investigating the performance of the Avery tractor on other tracts similar to his own he decided that it was well worth the trial. What Mr. Nebeker thinks of the Avery tractor now is best illustrated in a letter written by him to the Landes company, which is' quoted herewith: The Avery 20-35-horsepower tractor T have used has been very satisfactory. I have been pulling a 1 five-bottom plow in grain stubble stub-ble at a total cost of $1 per acre, with no repairB. I pulled three plows in old stubble which was very dry and hard at a total cost of $2.30 per acre. I used the tractor clearing sagebrush ground, pulling two eighty-pound railroad rails weighted down, doing the work of sixteen horBes. The cost of dragging drag-ging the land both ways was $1 per acre, which, reduced former cost for similar work one-half. T am using the tractor for power in roller mifi in winter, and put it to breaking dry farms in spring.