Show IFS YOUR MOVE here are A re money one y savers monticello WONDER FLOUR from dry farm hard wheat kanuf manufactured by C A FROST COMPANY monticello UTAH custom grinding solicited new modern tractors make MA aoa fasier easier the ease with which farmers now prepare their land plant cultivate and harvest crops is in decided contrast to the methods employed a generation ago the use of modern tractors and equipment has not only made farm work far easier but has been instrumental in lowering production costs as well yet had i it not been for p pioneering aneer efforts begun a generation ago farmers would not now be enjoying the steady dependable time and money saving tractor power that has lightened their labor load so materially one of the earliest and very probably the original tractor designer was honored during the recent national air mail week when over oven one hundred letters went through the air from a tiny post office to all parts pare of the country they were stamped froelich iowa honors john froelich 1849 1933 inventor of the worlds first gas tractor records show that froelich single cylinder gasoline burning tractor was put into service ice near langford south dakota in in 1892 and that it not only supplied i belt power but could actually move itself and pull other machinery at the same time during that year it operated successfully for 72 days supplying the power to thresh 1000 bushels of grain a day in 1893 a number of business men in waterloo iowa joined with mr froelich in organizing the waterloo gasoline engine company gasoline engines were built and experimental tractor efel kf El A this old tractor built by john froelich in 1892 lays claim to being the first gas tractor to be built and used A direct chain of events connects this tractor with the modern modem styled I 1 john 0 h n deere general P purpose u r p 0 s e tractor shown at the upper right X the modern up to the min ute john deere general purpose tractor shown above strikingly illustrates the changes in design which have taken place since its early ancestor the froelich tractor shown below was built many years ago note the clear vision which is provided development work was continued until in 1912 the successful waterloo boy kerosene burning tractor was introduced in 1918 the waterloo gasoline engine company was purchased by deere company thus there is a direct chain of events leading from original tractor to the present line of modern john deere two cylinder tractors sold here by L V shutt tractors are not only different in appearance from the old froelich tractor butt buti they can do many times the amount of work at far lower cost with a modern 2 plow general purpose tractor for example lit it is possible to plow up to 10 acres in a 10 hour day single disc 50 to 70 acres drill 25 to 30 acres with a sixteen feed drill mow 25 to 35 acres of hay with a power mower mawer harvest 35 to 50 acres with a power binder cultivate captivate from 25 to 40 acres with an integral 2 row cultivator and as many manyas as 60 acres with an integral 4 row cultivator the great improvements in tractor design and construction have made the farmer the master of crops and seasons L V SHUTT dealer northdale Nort hdale colorado THEY WOULD READ YOUR AD TOO IF IT APPEARED HERE |