The Garden Way of Life
(Page 2 of 3)
March/April 1973
By the Mother Earth News editors
Then there's the books put together by Garden Way itself. Titles like What Everyone Who Gardens Should Know About Earthworms or The Complete Book Of Home Storage Of Vegetables And Fruits. Not to mention the good reading on hog production, foraging wild foods, raising rabbits, building low-cost homes and other MOTHER-type subjects that GWP offers by mail.
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All in all, we'd say that you'll be doing yourself a favor if you write to GARDEN WAY PUBLISHING, Dept. TMEN, Charlotte, Vermont 05445 and request a copy of their catalog.
Which brings us to the Garden Way Manufacturing Co. over in Troy, New York . . . makers of the celebrated TROY-BILT rotary tiller.
Now there ain't no question about it: there's a lot of tillers manufactured in this country by a great number of companies . . . but, here at MOTHER, we're prejudiced in favor of the TROY-BILT. We've worked one hard for going onto three years now and we've yet to find anything wrong with the machine.
Yep. Compared to many other tillers, the TROY-BILT is expensive (prices range from $359 F.O.B. Troy for the Pony model up to $608 F.O.B. Troy for the top-of-the-line Horse equipped with electric starter). But worth it.
The TROY-BILT tillers are husky. Built with Timken bearings and big, solid transmission cases and heavy-duty hoods over the tines that keeps your feet out and the dirt in where the machines can chew it up.
Best of all, The Garden Way tillers are designed right. They've got the tines on the back. . . not stuck out in front like most other companies' machines. It's a simple idea, but it makes all the difference. Did you ever try to bust up sod with one of those front-enders? Sheer torture. The dang machine goes kicking and bucking all over the place, shaking the liver right out of whoever's hapless enough to be on the other end and alternately biting in four inches deep or not at all. That's no way to prepare a garden.
With a TROY-BILT such antics can never happen. It's got its tines on the back and they're driven through a brawny transmission so that they turn 10 or 12 times as fast as the tiller's wheels. The design actually makes it possible for you to guide the piece of equipment across almost any vegetable patch with the fingers of one hand . . . while the little rascal just purely roots the bejabbers out of the dirt. All to a uniform level and all without jerks, shakes, bucks or kicks.
