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BEET HARVESTERS.
FIELD BEAN CROP.
Harvester That Throws Two Rows Into
a Single Windrow.
Vy L. C. CORl'.ETT.
For many joiir.-s tlu i;iulliii of Uoa
crops. sueli ns tU'ltl Ikmiis, upon uu ex
tensive siiilo was iiuiios!ltlt Kvnuse
of tlii firi'iit imimint of huml labor nec
essary to gather the crop. Within re
cent years, however, lalior saving lie
vices have heen luveutcil. :o that now
the once Iaiiorlons jira.-iice of hand
pulling liulivUinal plants can be done
away with Iy the use of a hean har
vester. This implement is Imiit 0:1 the pt itu i
Jiie of a p;.ir of shears mil consists of
ifting the Beets by Means of a Plow
or Puller.
To harvest snuar heets costs from ?3
to $10 au acre, depending upon the
condition of the soil. Most of this
I work is now accomplished by a pys
; tern borrowed from Knrope. This con
Fists ia extracting the beets from the
! toil with an implement drawn by two
' to four horses. It is in the nature of n
; plow. There are several forms, one of
which is called a "puller." This has
i two Iiiif;ei-liUe taperini; prongs, which
I run through the ground parallel with
the surface, but about ten inches be
low. The space U-tween these prongs
Is wider at the points, gradually less
; ev.ins to their back ends. These prongs
are supported by two upright pieces
attached to the beam. When pulled
through the soil the points are carried
ou either side of the beet, compelling
it to pass through this diminishing
space Idrectly the prongs tighten
against the beet as it is being forced
through the space, breaking off the tap
root and forcing it up. The beet is ele
vated two or three inches and left in
the loose dirt.
Another Fo-rn of P!ow.
Another form of the implement con
sists of a plow with a narrow mold
board and n long sharp knifelike share,
the edge of which penetrates the soil
at about the depth of ten inches, cut
ting otT the beets. lining them several
inches ami throwing them on the side
over against the loose dirt. A work
man comes along the row, takes hold
of the top, lifts the beet from the loose
soil and with a sharp knife cleaves off
the crown from which the leaves have
grown. The beets are then bumped
together to remove tin- adhering dirt
anl thrown in piles and the tops ia
others. From these piles the beets are
loaded into wagons and delivered to the
factory.- F. Saylor.
BETTER DAYS.
Saving Steps.
In spite of the extensive devel ipment
and Use of corn harvesting machinery
the fact remains that much corn is still
cut by hand. Therefore the accompa
nying sketch recently sent to the New
Fngland Homestead by a reader will
prove of interest.
lie has ligurcd out that if the plan
outlined is followed a sixty-four hill
shock, or stook. of corn can lie out at a
minimum number of steps. The cir-
BEAX HARVESTER AT WultK.
two long siocl blades mounted upon a
strong frame work carri-'d upon vvheeK
The long shears-like blades are set to
cut the roots of the plants just beneath
the surface of the ground. Above these
blades guard roils or guide roils are so
arranged as to move from their origi
nal positions the plants whose roots
have been severed, and since the im
plement Is designed to cut two rows of
beans uiross the Held the plants of two
rows are thrown together in a single
windrow. This clears a space for the
passage of one of the animals in the
team, so that It Is necessary for only
one to pass through the standing crop,
thus decreasing the amount of loss by
shelling which would result from both
animals being' driven through the
standing crop.
After the plants are thrown together
by the harvester it is customary for
men with ordinary pitchforks to follow
the harvester and place the beans ia
email heaps to cure for several days
before storing them in barns or sheds
for thrashing. In some instances where cIs in ,he center represent the four
the work is done upon a very ex ten
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slve scale and where the loss from
Bhelling is not considered sufficient to
justify the employment of hand labor
for bunching the beans with forks an
ordinary horse rake is employed for the
purpose.
Where the beans are to remain for a
longer period and to become more
hills tied together or between which
the shock is built. After the founda
tion for the shock is ready the man
goes to No. 1 and cuts in the direction
of the numbers until he reaches No. 8.
After placing his armful in the shock
he begins at No. 0 anil cuts to No. 10,
again depositing his load and contin
uing the operation iu the way the hills
thoroughly cured in the field and are numbered until the shock is coin
where the work' of harvesting is done , pleted. It will be noted that In addition
entirely by hand the crop is frequent-: to saving steps this plan brings the cut-
ly placed in shocks which are built
about a pole four or five feet In height,
both ends of which have lieen sharp
ened and one end placed firmly in the
ground. A small quantity of straw,
grass or other material is placed
around the base of the stake and the
ter near the shock with his heaviest
load, or when his arm is full of corn.
Mutton Chops.
You can never improve a flock by
using a grade sire.
Wet Iters intended for market should
beans as they are pulled and are piled t be put iu a pasture by themselves,
' where tiiey cau be liberally fed.
! The ewes and the sire should receive
! generous feeding.
1 When ewes are gaining in coudition
tit mating time there will he a larger
, percentage of twins and the lambs will
j be stronger.
I A supply of roots Is necessary to
I success Willi sheep,
i Have some way of marking your
i sheep. Many neighbors have been
i made enemies for life by their sheep
! petting mixed in the pasture.
It is important to give good care to
! nil animals, but particularly to sheet).
To restore flesh to an animal is au ex
pensive process, as costly to sheep as
1 to other animals. Farm Journal.
BEAN HABVESTEB.
-round the pole until a compact minia
ture stack about four or five feet
high is formed. The operation is very
similar to the common practice fol
lowed by growers of peanuts in stack
ing and curing. The curing process in
-any case is carried far enough to pre
vent the vines molding after storing
them in the farm prior to thrashing.
If the vines are thoroughly ripened in
the field before harvesting they cau be
tored In fro.ni two to three days if the
weather is satisfactory.
Plow Points.
Where too large a proportion of the
farm is kept under plow the soil soon
becomes impoverished and unproduc- plication of a
nve.
All animals thrive best when fed at
regular Intervals and given each time
no more than they will readily con
sume. Clean, straight fence rows, and
fences in good repair, add materially to
the appearance and value of the farm.
When the cost of keeping a good
article la no more than keeping a poor
one It Is certainly advisable to keep
the better.
' No vegetable accessible to the farm
er absorbs so much nitrogen from the
air and leaves so rich a storehouse of
It as clover. Kansas Fanner.
Plsnting Strawberries.
After plowing land deeply for the
fall planting of strawberries encourage
the germination of weed seeds by fre
quent cultivation so far as possible to
get rid of the trouble of weeds getting
ahead of the plants after they are set
out. Fse barnyard manure freely If
the same can he had free from weed
seeds, advlaes Southern Tlanter. In
order to insure this it should have
heated well and le partially rotted.
This may be supplemented with an ap-
jod fertilizer rich in
phosphoric oeid and potash, soy 300 to
400 pounds of acid phosphate and 200
pounds of muriate of potash per acre.
The row may be laid off three feet
apart.
I'.asicr tor a Man to Live Down Dis
grace. "Amid the storms and sorrows of
.ife tbe affections of man tiniy veer,
but unchaogeJ and unchanging 4s
the true heart of woman; she loves
and loves forever." That splendid
tribute to the better half of the hu
nun family was written by Wash
ington Irving, who lived and died u
bachelor. Of course, it is not true
as to all women, lor mauy of tkeui
tire as tickle us that contemptible
creature, the male coquette. But
there is us much truth as poetry in
H, and there is a great deal of both.
J he affections of man uo veer more
ftciueutly than those of woman,
and in most cases, when a man loses
the love of his wife the loss is his
own fault.
An incident that occurred 1ms.
wtek iu a Western city reanndeu
The 1'ost of Irving'a inttchk-SH tii
Mite. The wife of a niau convicted
1 f bank lootiur, or complicity iu
that crime, and sentenced to a term
in the penitentiary, did not com-;
plain of the law or the courts, fi r
she realized that he had deserved
such treatment: but she showed tt
love tor him, uniliuinud by his fate
ful fault, and declared that her
fotuhst and most con iideiit hope was
t'.at he would live to reinstate him
self in the respect and cohlidcuce of
ti e entire community.
Thanks to the steadily increasing
int. ncc and charity of the peo
ple it ii not so hard a task fur a 111 a 11
( f strung will and liign purpose 10
lic down di.-grace and get a new
hold ou the esiccui of his neighbors
as it was years ago. It is not halt
so true today as it was in Shake-:
sp atc's time that "theeril that nitu
d Ims nf ir tin m: the good is ott
interred with their bones." The
practice of debiting a man with "ail
his faults and follies and exaggera -nig
the ugly aggregation while for
getting all that was good in his
lecord is going out. 'iiue, there ale
persons who have not changed in j
this retpect. Aiost of these are
cold blooded patterns of propriety
and many of theui aie heavily o?er-i
loaded with self rightousness. They I
have not yielded to temptation be- i
cauie they have not felt its power, j
i'ity for a man who has given away 1
under great temptation has noplace1
in their philosophy, no matter how j
long ana will he traveled in the
path of honor, no matter how many
were his ministrations to the distress
ed. But, in these times, these new
times that are so much better thau
the old, it is oftener the rule thau
the exception with the best elenien
i of our citizenship to look at thi
j credit as well as tbe debit side of ,
j brother who has fallen ana give bin
encouragement in efforts to climb uj
I the declivity down which he ha
slipped. Many men with a pris.i.
j record which they have not tiled i
I conceal are living among their o
j friends and neighbors ia go d re
pute.
I Byron wrote that "one sad 1im
: toils a name for aye." In. t w.
! not literally true iu his time. '1 .
j day it is grossly untrue. Tb far
iy and other relatives of a man,
; no matter how ntrocioutly wicked
I he may have been, are not eld re
, s; OLisib'.e for his crm..- If tht v
j deserve sympathy, they hsve it, and
only the ignorant ani vicious sj.tuL
J unkindly of tbem for that of which
j ihey are blameless. Tbe time w'll
Iconie when organized society will be
; utile to deal with ail offenders agaii st
I c i ninal laws juttly but without
j tiiuhce, remembering that it is quite
! possible for one who has resisted
( more evil than the most moral and
I uptight ol his neighbors to yield at
1. isr, in a moment 01 weakness, and
t e justW convicted of and executed
for murder.
'Vha '6 doue we partly may com.
pute,
We know not what's resisted."
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Tobacco Seed Plants.
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and best results may be obtained.
Without selection of seed plnnts year
after year by tbe growers the life of
tobacco varieties is comparatively
short. Th accidental cross fertiliza
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the nse of Inferior plants for seed pro
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