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Power in Your Hands
The Garden Tractor is not new, for it has been a part of the American scene
for over thirty years. Yet it is only comparatively recently that increasing
public acceptance, coupled with new developments in design and construction,
have shown what a tremendously effective job garden tractors can do in providing
improved gardening methods plus year round savings in time, labor and expense.
In essence, tractor gardening is simply the application of power to jobs
formerly done by hand - in an era when hand labor was cheap and abundant - and
greatly multiplying that power so that even a child, given control of such
power, can do the work of several hand laborers. For example, a man wielding a
hoe over a long working period would average less than one horsepower . . . yet
the same man, using the constant, tireless power developed by a two, three or
five horsepower garden tractor, is enabled to do the work of four or five men
using hand tools.
The paragraphs which follow list some of the steps toward the establishment of a
good tractor garden, using a garden tractor to reduce your time and effort, and
to increase your pleasure in a worthwhile garden of your own.
[Source: Gardening Supplement to Owner
Manual, date unknown, courtesy of Mark Waite
& Joel Wicker]