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Show ENTIRELY NEW TYPE0F PLOW Swiss lUvt Invented Implement Which Una Certain Advantages Advan-tages Over Anything at I'reacnt in Use. Mowing a field with the usual borst drawn Implement Is an operation requiring re-quiring entirely too much time, pa tlence and expenditure of energy foi the modern agriculturist, and especially especial-ly for the western farmer who hat hundreds of acres to turn in a season. Hi earn and motor driven plows with one or a dozen shares have been an Immense Improvement In many localities locali-ties and have made extensive farming possible, but the motor ower required re-quired to drive a plow through anything any-thing but the lightest kind of soil In volves the use of rtimbersome machinery. ma-chinery. The Swiss have Invented an entirely new type of plow which has certain marked advantages over anything at present In use. On the rear of a light motor driven truck is a arum carrying four parallel rows of hoes. When the drnm Is revolved by the motor mo-tor In the truck the hoes spade up the ground and at the same time propel the machine. Tbe ordinary plow In Its work Is harder to pull In proportion to the depth of the furrow, but this hoe plow. Instead of retarding the machine, ma-chine, actually pushes It forward. It Is said, moreover, that a field worked In this manner Is much more thoroughly thor-oughly prepared for the harrow and the subsequent sowing than one plowed In the old fashioned way. |