SUBSTITUTES FARMING MADE EASY. THE MANLESS-PLOUGH. An automatic cultivator that runs in a spiral ani»steers itself is described by a writer iu ' Popular Science Monthly.' Of course, the farmer who uses it must give up the old straight-line plan, and plant everything in spirals; bat this would seem to be no real objection to the device. The writer says : " It was not alive, apparently, and no human being seemed to be concealed about it, and yet tho thing was seen cultivating a 10-acre farm in New Jersey. J)own the rows of corn it went all alone and never bruised a blade or chopped a root. ' It W48 t uncanny to anyone who had never beheld such a sight before, and even to some who had. f WORK WHILE sfoU SLEEP. "It worked nights, too. Dimly outlined, iu the white moo ijight, it could be teen treodipg its way wi'h almost human il||pqo| and with mathematical precisioq while the farmer slept/peacefully. Close reveal? a thin wire ex teodin, g to a central drum, around which the wire winds itself as the work of cultivating proceeds. That exploits the spiral movement. The wire shortens itself byfthe same amount each trip around and is Vi Ußea' for steering the machine. Yes, it is a machine, after all. The wire being perfectly tempered, cannot stretch, and an electro-coated surface protects it from rust. lis total weight is less than two yet a pull of 600 pounds is required to break it.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1208, 19 November 1919, Page 7
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