Power Driven Tobacco Setter, 1917

From Windsor Historical Society

1917 (Date manufactured/created)
August 1917 (Date manufactured/created)

Digital scan of page 11 of the August 1917 issue of the Windsor Town Crier newspaper. The article "A Power Driven Tobacco Setter: The Product of a Windsor Man's Ingenuity" includes a photograph of a early tractor pulling a five man tobacco setter. The setter is the work of Alfred W. Olds and adapts a horse-drawn tobacco setter for use with a gasoline engine and can set three rows of tobacco seedlings at a time.

Accession/ID Number 1931.005.002.006