After I decided I had enough horsepowers and was going to retire collecting farm machinery, a scrapper from 80 miles east of Freeport came to me at our annual show and he was cleaning up a farm that the bank had foreclosed on, and there was a large power in the woodlot. I did not want to tackle another power as all the old powers have too many missing parts and you need to know how long the equalizers etc., are. However, I went and looked at the power. This had the largest bull gear of all powers, so…I bought it. It took almost two years to find some of the things I needed to restore it. This is “the Kelly,” ten-horse, the easiest and nicest power of all.

Since the rate of seeding any oats with a grain drill will vary considerably with the degree of cleanness of the oats, the most satisfactory method of determining an accurate drill setting for any particular lot of seed is by a calibration test. To make this test, raise and block up one side of the drill so that the wheel on that side will turn freely. The seed dropped by a certain number of revolutions of the wheel should be collected in cans, paper sacks, or on a canvas spread beneath all drill tubes. The table shows the number of wheel revolutions for various drill widths and wheel diameters to cover 1/10 acre.