Show BEET PULLER IS LATE LA IE INVENTION Machine Designed by Californian for Doing loing This Hard and p Expensive Task I INJURY AVOIDED By BY WHEELS t S I Beet Is Pulled From Ground Knives I ion on on Each Side Cut Off Tops of of Leaves Leaves Easy Easy to Harvest Profitable Crop pulling fulling sugar beets Is one of the b g jobs which confront the grower of this very profitable crop It is a n lot lotof lotof of Df work work and work that takes time and energy energy at least and often costs money as as' as aswell well veil A man in the beet fields of California has designed a machine which he thinks Is a wonder for doing this hard and expensive task Instead of using fusing Inclined rods on the principle I jf f the gathering points of a corn com baud bind i r r for pulling the beets this man uses LO padded wheels for this his purpose Cross Sectional View The upright shaped V-shaped portion of the Accompanying accompanying illustration Is a cross sectional view v through the padded wheel heel pullers pulleN The axles of these Wheeled pullers extend down to the inner hubs of the main driving wheels f fi the machine and are here driven or revolved b by these main wheels t Grouters or diggers go along ahead a f the pulling wheels on each side sides s Bf or of the row of ot beets and loosen the theu u ground around them so that they will willbe be easier to pull when the pulling Wheels w heels of the machine engage them F m the tile drawing it will be he noticed that the tIle pulling wheel wheels are set so the Rower lower portions are much closer toge toa to- to a gether ge her than are the thc upper portions As the machine passes forward over o he beets In a row these pulling ra raFe Fe Beet Topper and Puller r heels wheels are rotated backward and upward up- up 3 ward and In so rotating they lift beets C gut out oat of the ground Cuts Off Leaves So o located between the pulling wheels that they pass Just over the top of the beet are two vo knives one on each side Thus as the machine I h drawn dra n forward for and the beet Is lifted lift lift- ed these knives cut off the top or lC leaves ayes of the beet thus it Is pulled and topped at one and the same time timeto by to the one machine these being two separate parate operations In the ordinary lJ head hand d method of harvesting beets |