'B—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, September 7.1968
THE PICK-UP on Walter’s new tobacco harvesting ma
chine runs under the wilted tobacco stalks and lifts them
up to begin the movement over the spear onto the lath.
Tobacco
Completed
By Local Inventor
Machine
(Continued from P"?f 1) fast as am man wants to take
, * , t .the lath away
on the speai until the next mill
• „ .7. The tobacco must be wilted
is chopped in p'ace ana the lust ~ , , . , , ~
, ~ , , , , noimalh and leif and stalk
smik on the lath releases it leakage is veiy small
a gem
The empty lath aie manually tobacco giow°is in Kentucky
fed into a slot by the dmei as and has tiaieled theie to ex
the tiactoi moves slowly along plain the machine to them
hoiking through tlnee to five ~T ~ . ,
lath per minute A platfoim The Halters nave mcorporat
can be installed on back of the ed tn«r fanrnv mto Waltei Har
hactoi for a man to pick off the \ est f Co . Inc anc aie ieady to
filled lath and hand them oier al?lt Producing the machine,
to a lacldei wagon pulled beside Ross es timated the cost will be
the ti actor The inventoi le- a ?P J oximateij 52,000
ports the machine will woik as So what people said couldn’t
Harvesting
Walter has been contacted by
ROSS WALTER shows the area from This chain moves only when a stalk is in
pick-up to lath where,the stalks are moved position. L. F. Photo
by a chain with fingers that grab the butts.
L. F. Photo
THE SPEARING AND FILLED-LATH vesting machine. A tractor with a wide
ejection mechanism is carried under the front-end and 20 inches clearance s need
tractor on Ross Walter’s new tobacco har- ed. L. F Photo
be done, has been And Ross
Walter’s hoboy which he admits
has become quite expensive i
about leady to help faimeis
mechanize a county faira choie
that foi yeais has had tanners
sweating on hot August daj s
• Farm Calendar
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Tuesday, Sept. 10
7 30 pm —Elizabethtown- Done
gal 4-H Club meet, Richaid
Yunginger.
Wednesday, Sept. 11
4 30 p.m —Ag teachers meet,
Warwick
The carnivorous Venus flytrap
grows naturally near the Noith
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