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Show AVERY TRACTOR HEADS VISIT CITY i -. - i n n , ... v . I i c j i Pield Manager L. A. Smith. tractors to compete, and fifty-five machines were in the fields at one "time. The Avery people had six tractors at Davis, one motor cultivator and one threshing machine, the latter machine being there for inspection purposes only. California is the home state of the catorpillar type of tractor, and for years no other tractor has been able to compete com-pete successfully in that territory. But recently the Avery people have made such great headway in demonstrations and practical farm tests that they have succeeded in building up a great demand de-mand and have now a large selling or During the week President J. B. Bartholomew Bar-tholomew of the Avery Tractor company, com-pany, of Peoria, Dl. and Manager of Sales L. A. Smith spent a few profitable days with the Laudes company, local distributors for all Avery products, including in-cluding the various sizes in farm tractors, trac-tors, the motorized cultivating machines and the Avery threshing machines. Messrs. Bartholomew and Smith were on route east from a big tractor demonstration dem-onstration recently held at Davis, C'al. where the California -state agricultural school is located. This demonstration was considered important enough for eighteen different manufacturers of gaiuzation, working in the state out of San Francisco, where headquarters are located. Locally, the demand for the Avery tractor, has jumped to tremendous proportions, pro-portions, says Manager Landes of the Landes comnany. The near future will see nearly all of the farms of Utah motorized, he avers. The Avery Tractor company is one of the largest in this country, operating two plants at Peoria and one at Chicago. Chi-cago. It manufactures a motor cultivator culti-vator that is said to be practical for the cultivation of earn, beets, cotton, beans and other vegetables. The local agency handles the cultivator along with the -diner Avery motorized farming machines.. |