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PROGRESSIVE FARUEB AND GAZETTE.
Saturday, February 11, 1910.
BETTER TOOLS AND HEAVIER
TEAMS.
The Two Go Together and Will Yet
Bring About a New Era in South
ern Farming. . .
Messrs. Editors: The Western
farmer is making use of the best
farming implements to be had, and
as a result he furnishes the corn for
a good many of the Southern farmers
to feed their mule while they make
two trips across a field to cultivate
one row of cotton or peanuts or to
bacco. " This Is not as it should be,
for we can grow as much corn to
the acre here as can be grown any
. where. ., . .
We need more time, and labor-sav-
ins loois, usea in a practical-manner,
will give us more time. Better tools
however, will generally call for more
if not heavier teams with the South
ern farmers, v It is useless to expect
an implement to do good work and
not have a heavier ' draft than one
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kind and every conation of it fatLr
. When yon examine the construction of this
ftnS "wcifUy when you have triedit,
you will understand why ithas always beentne
1 iTS? "?d why U li "commended more than
another harrows combined, ia books written
by apricultnral authorities, Men
mlL ?u n 8011 escapes the iharp elopincr knlYe
and these knlYes out through to the undersoil, cho
Sizes Frcn 3 ft. to 17 fl.UIdo
The Acme is the lightest riding harrow made.
-rie5flaaln8t.br!?Jce nd will liut a llf
toe Made of steel and Iron. Ask your D..l.r-r
Write V Ont Jkk t n Mlua AJ TtCT. A. .
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JOHN DIM! PLOW CO., ST. LOUIS. 110.
JOHN OEIRK PLOW CO., NEW ORLEANS. LA.
SOUTHERN FARM TOOL CO ATLANTA, OA.
RAWUNQS IMPLEMENT CO.. BALTIMORE. MO,
CanuficiandbyDUAnE II.NA6II (Incorporated)
130 Central Ave, nUKnnton, II. J.
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An Va l.lu. -a
r ,? villus ami y utteiB i or your I arm
hauliiur. Ynn nam nn. m. i a tti A
work. Half the time. Sava
on can put on a bigger load. Half the
out up your fields.
EM PI RE LOW
STEEL WHEELS
eost only Jne-half as much as wood,
en wheels. They ave you tire out.
ting and repair expense. Ypu can
change your wooden wheels tor your
Emplr. Steal WhealimnTtitnalnB mlnnu.
S.nd for fjj. ctlof showing wheels and
wwgriceo umpire uanay w aeons.
Empire Mt&. Co.. Box 473. Qtiincy, u
(BREEZE L?Ml?,m Mod' $?7S
m .TT he worst roads
pZlZT Vehicle Le and comfort And Uo
fi OOlint 'Sa ' -uu" i
,r yr J Pcaco.
tiy CINCINNATI. OHIO
that does not do so much or so good
work. That is, do not expect some
thing for nothing. If yon find a plow
that will do your work exactly, bnt is
a little too mnch for your team,
change the team and not the plow.
If two will not do the work, try three
abreast
The double cultivator and two-row
corn planter have come to stay, and
slowly hut surely the light one-horse
plow is giving way to the heavier plow
of the chilled type; but the majority
have yet to learn to run them deep
enough. It is also a very hard mat
ter to get some of our farmers to
stop using the turn plow to cultivate
the corn crop, but the change is
gradually coming about
The Southern farmers are learning
to replace the decreasinglamount of
vegetable matter in their soils; and
while the average yields per acre of
the Western farmers are growing
smaller because he thinks his land is
inexhaustible, that of the Southern
farmer Is slowly increasing, because
of . the increasing amount of humus.
Now If we will only use the imple
ments and methods of cultivation
that they use, and thus produce our
crops at a decreased cost by a saving
in time and labor we may hope to do
for ourselves what they are doing
for US. ''- :.-,
We need better implements, more
and heavier teams, and plenty of live
stock to eat our hay and grain, and
turn It Into meat and manure the
meat to go to market at the present
fancy prices, and the manure to go
to improve the sadly depleted fields
of our beautiful Southland,
THOMAS BELL.
Surry Co., Va.
TWO NOVEL STALK CUTTERS.
'I. -A Cultivator Attachment,
Messrs. Editors: It is almost im
possible for any up-to-date farmer to
get along conveniently without the
use of a stalk cutter. Any one using
a two-horse cultivator
practically the same machine for a
few dollars by making a reel cutter
and attaching to cultivator. 5 ;
Make two ' rims of ordinary two
horse wagon tire, 56 inches in 'cir
cumference. Drill eight -Inch holes
7 Inches apart in each .rim. Make
crosses, using 2 by 2 -inch timbers,
and fit tightly In each rim. Then use
3 or 4-inch flat iron for the knives,
making them 18 inches long. Use -Inch
bolts, flatten the head end of
bolt and rivet one to each end of
knife, allowing thread end of bolt
to go through rim and top to go on
inside of rim, thus making knives de
tachable, so they may be sharpened
when necessary. Make hole in center
or each cross and put an iron axle
through. The axle should be square '
aau not anowea io turn in the reel
but' made round at the ends to turn
in holes bored in pieces of scantling
to be bolted to gangs of cultivator.
I use the Planet Jr. cultivator, and
by removing all but the two front
feet and bolting the two pieces of
wood that carry the reel to the gangs
of cultivator, I can adjust pressure as
desired. The two front feet without
shovels serve as drags to drag togeth
er the straggling stalks. I think this
can be attached to most any of the
riding cultivators.
' O. O. 'BLACKWELDER.
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CuMM "Style Book of
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best equipment, use only the finest materials, employ
S3 7 tT0 reful workmen, produce larre quan
titles, and sell direct to the consumer. Consequently
we can undersell others quality for quality - .
Sold on
trial
Guaranteed
2 years
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II. A, Disk That Doea the Work.
Messrs. Editors: A stalk chopper
is a tool I would not have as a pres
ent, I have something that beats it so
far. Several years ago I decided to
buy a disk harrow, and I found one
having four disks on one side and
five on the other, not running paral-
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