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Recent changes in food
prices have shocked a good
many Americans. Long
accustomed to some of the
lowest food prices in the
world. Wo’ve been Jolted by
steady and dramatic in
creases in the cost of food
stuffs. Fifteen years ago, it
was pretty tough to pile more
than $2O worth of groceries
into the average shopping
cart; with a little ingenuity
you now can pack nearly $lOO
worth of groceries in one.
To partly counteract this
alarming increase in the cost
of food prices, a lot of
Americans are returning to
that fabled institution, the
backyard garden. In so
doing, they are discovering
the wonderful flavors of
freshly picked corn, dewy
tomatoes fresh from the
vine, and dozens of other
delightful vegetables and
fruits. But they are
discovering a dark side to
the garden; aching backs,
strained muscles, and
blistered hands. A good way
to avoid these un
pleasentnes, according to
garden experts at Massey-
Ferguson Inc., is to use a
rotary tiller for your own
backyard plot.
Why a rotary tiller? The
chief reason is a tiller
eliminates the effort that
goes into a shovel and other
hand tools that prepare a
seed bed, plow up the grass,
cultivate weeds, and mulch
in leaves at the end of the
season. The wit who
christened the shovel an idiot
stick-“a stick with dirt on
one end and an idiot on the
other” was perhaps being a
little unfair, but there is no
denying a shovel can wreak
all sorts of calculated
brutality on the shoveler.
A'rotary tiller gets around
this by letting a machine do
all the really hard, un
pleasant work It can
eliminate the strain and
aching muscles heretofore
associated with planting
some corn and tomatoes, and
it can permit gardeners with
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physical disabilities to
continue their hobby. A tiller
can tackle a bevy of ac
tivities around even the
small backyard plot.
Tillers are used most often
to prepare the soil for
planting. A tiller has a small
gasoline engine, driving a set
of rotary tines that cut
through the soil, chopping
and pulverizing it to prepare
a suitable seed bed from
which the young plants can
grow and thrive. When the
plants are well under way,
tillers are used for
cultivating between the rows
to keep weeds down. And
after the plants are har
vested, the tiller can be used*
to mulch crop refuse back
into the soil. Used this way,
tillers reduce the need for
shovels, rakes, and hoes
and they also eliminate
blisters.
How to Select a Tiller
As you go shopping, you’ll
find there are two major
types of tillers. By far the
most common type has the
plowing tines at the front of
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the tiller. The tines are tront-tlned tiller: it can plow
powered by the engine, and to within one or two Inches of
literally pull the tiller along « wa:lk, foundation, or
so that you do not have to established shrub. The rear
push it from place to place, tined tiller can plow only
Another type of tiller you within 8 or 10 inches of such
may see has the tines bairlers.
mounted at the rear, with the Tillers for average home
front wheels driven by the use are driven by gasoline
motor. TTils configuration is engines of three to eight
normally found in extremely horsepower.
large tillers, more suited for _ . , . . .
the multi-acre garden than B .® ext remely careful not
the small back lot. o slip or fall as you operate a
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