Mechanization of Farming: The Rose Disk Cultivator
“A disk cultivator is used for disturbing the soil between rows of corn and
covering the weeds with this soil. The weeds then die.
The advertising flyer that Mr. Henry Rose, of Waterman Station, Illinois,
distributed for selling his 1889 Disk Cultivator read like this:
The most thorough and carefully conducted experiments have shown that surface cultivation will produce a larger yield of corn than is possible with any other system, and it has also shown that under most conditions the disk is best adapted to perform this service, while in many cases it is the only method which can be successfully used. In cultivating stalky ground the disk cuts the stalks and does not, as with the shovel, tear them out and destroy the plant. The disk cuts and pulverizes the ground, destroys weeds and grass, and is the only implement which can be effectively used in ground infested by morning glories and other running vines.
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The special advantages of the Rose Disk Cultivator are:
Four-disk Gangs
Each gang is composed of four disks, which number permits the use of a size
of disk which can be set at an angle best adapted to do effective work of the
lightest draft. It also enables one to cut to the center between the rows and
prevents the growth of a strip of weeds observable when machines with three-disk
gangs are used.
Inner Disks set at a less angle than the remainder of the gang. This allows cultivation close to the row without burying the plants. The inner disks are also so arranged as to prevent clogging.
Long Bearings, extending the full length of the section and so constructed as to avoid wear and cutting of boxes, and in others.
Steel Gang Frame, firmly supporting the disk sections at the ends.
Chisel-acting Cleaners, operated by simply rocking the root while guiding the gangs. The most perfect device for the purpose ever produced and the only one which effectively cleans the disks under all conditions.
Long Swing Bars, which leave the gangs in proper shape during all the changes of position.
Disk Gangs can be given more or less angle and the inner or outer ends raised or lowered at pleasure to cultivate listed corn, on back furrows, etc.
With the use of the "Rose" Disk Cultivator an increase in yield is certain — in many cases sufficient to pay for the machine in a single season.
We are the sole manufacturers under exclusive license from the inventor, embracing all his patents.
Sandwich Enterprise Co., Sandwich, Ill.”