JUST YOV AND AN AVERY TEACTOBi . ♦— Run tout farm yourself, Mr Farmer— onlißt the services of an Avory Tractor. It mokes possible the one-man farm it enables you to "carry on" de6pito the shortage of farm labour. Let us ® for example the 8-16 h.p. Avery. with it you can do $ho work of two men driving four-horso toams. Yo* can work without ceasing, too—Avery requires no "spell-oh" and demands no overtime pay. It is useful in the four seasons : it discs, ploughs, harrows, packs, drills, : harvests, threshes, and haul crops any- ! where. Then you can uso the Avery Tractor as a power plant—for work 1 that horses can't do. 'Twill driyo ft saw. milking plant, shearing machines, chafEcntter, wire stretcher—its sphere of usefulnefs is very wide. And what is the cost for all'this? Does the Avery cost as much to maintain as the two four-horso teams? No! All it requires is kerosene for fuel —and keroseno is cheap; less trouble than horses, leae expensive to keep; and the Avery won't die of old age! 'There's a handy size for every sizo farm. pjach m;xlcl Hit quickly repay its original cost by the saving it will make on men's wages and horses' feed. Farmers Fhouid teineinbor that the Government will assist them to buy tractors. Full details ea:i obtained from tho Department, of Agriculture. A 12-L'o Aver". JliV't.'i W, has just been delivered, to Hon. M.-r.'Donald, .'.linister of Agriculture. for on hi.; .'■mi farm. Oai»——z<p-mci-inr-; A. IJatrjek and Co., Ltd., Wangar;ui iind tVcllinijfon, Ko;v Zealand \V. A. .MrT.p.rcn end Co., L'X , C.iri.=tchurc'!. Canterbury naeul.-. I
From a Wellington lieutenant, now in the ueuchci, to hia father: "Ain getting over a nico little dose of influenza, which has been merry while it las tod. In the meantime it is not worrying me much, for the famous Fluonzol all the way from New Zealand has altered my outlook on life. Now 1 have not even an excuse to get out of work.'' 6
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16288, 12 August 1918, Page 4
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