Please note this is a new, photoduplicated reproduction, not an original. The accompanying pictures were scanned from a reprint, not the original.

”Plows usually leave the factory adjusted for work under average conditions. However, no plow can do its best work unless it has been adjusted to suit the actual conditions under which it is being used. The modern tractor plow has all the adjustments necessary for the performance of first-class work under all usual plowing conditions. If a poor job is done with a tractor plow, it is, in almost every case, due to improper adjustment, or to extreme conditions…. The purpose of this book is to place before the tractor plowman, in a form which will enable him to grasp it quickly and easily, the information necessary to adjust the modern tractor plow to get a hundred per cent perfect work…. The principles of adjustment illustrated in this book will apply to rigid frame plows of any manufacture.”

Summary of Contents: 

• Tractor Plowing
• Preliminary Adjustments
  • Rolling Coulter
• Opening A “Land”
• Hitch
  • Spring Tension
  • The Rear Wheel
  • The Front Wheel
  • The Jointer
  • Shares
  • Rear Wheel Scraper
  • Hanging Cutter
  • Oiling
• Principles of Draft in Tractor Plows
  • The Center of Draft
  • Results of Too High Hitch
  • If Hitch is Too Low
  • The Tractor Drawbar
  • Lateral Hitch
  • Conditions Affecting Line of Draft
  • Better Than Guessing
  • Hitching Too Far to Right
  • When Tractor is Run on Land
  • The Front Furrow Wheel
  • Soil on Wheel Affects Depth
• How to Sharpen Steel Plow Share    
  • To sharpen a plow share properly

  ”The average blacksmith, after removing the share from the plow, plunges it into a big broad fire to heat, preparatory to sharpening, oft-times setting it on edge in the fire. This is wrong, as it permits the heat to extend over the entire surface of the share, withdrawing the hardness that the manufacturers were so careful to conserve. It also causes the share to warp and lose its original shape, causing annoyance in replacing the share on the plow.”

• Suction of Plow Shares
  • Worn Shares Waste Time, Money and Patience
  • Bottom Suck
  • Two Types of Shares
  • Side Suck
• Methods for Laying Out Lands and Plowing With Tractors
  • Two Methods of Tractor Plowing
  • Reduce Dead Furrows Without Additional Idle Travel
  • Plowing Round and Round
  • Turning to the Right
  • Turning to the Left
  • Don’t Plow the Same Way Every Year
  • Irregular Fields
  • Plowing Round and Round Turning Square Corners
• McCormick-Deering FARMALL All-Purpose Row-Crop Tractors (one page ad showing the Farmall 14, 20, and 30)
• McCormick-Deering Standard Farm Tractors (one page ad showing the McCormick-Deering W-30)
• TracTracTors (one page ad showing the International T-40)
• McCormick-Deering Tractor Plows (one page ad showing the McCormick-Deering No. 8 Little Genius)
• McCormick-Deering Tractor Disk Plows (one page ad showing the McCormick-Deering 34-3)
• McCormick-Deering Line (two page ad showing a small picture of each type of equipment offered by McCormick-Deering: including, grain binders, harvesters, mowers. Rakes, hay loaders, hay presses, planters and listers, beet implements, potato planters and diggers, cultivators, corn binders and pickers, ensilage cutters, huskers and shredders, corn shellers and feed mills, farm wagons and trucks, soil pulverizers, tillage implements, engines, motor trucks, threshers, cream seperators, milkers and milk coolers, cane mills, grain drills, manure spreaders, and stalk cutters)