Newspapers / The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, … / May 3, 1913, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
jKWTO SAVE LABOR IN CHOPPING COTTON-Page 19. jSfcf 'dSo100 ffsj? x A Fann and Home Weekly For the Carolinas, Virginia, $EZJ&& Georgia and Florida. -v:.- p.toa.c. FOUNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol. XXVIII. No. 18. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 5 '3. Weekly: $1 a Year. ! - . " . .-v.-r ..... 1 : ' ' ' . , ,. .... : r 9, Gleaner Fields, Better Tools, Shorter ttrs, More Work. By A. L. FRENCH. ' .tlte"" yyr-A.- .rH-aT.. . . a. .... ' ONE of the Editors of The Progressive Farmer wrote recently, giv ing it as his opinion that we would be obliged to go to using the big plows, the disk harrows, two-row planters, smoothing har rows and to-horse cultivators, before we would raise crops of corn that it would be a burden for us to handle. I believe he is exactly right s in his contention. The above named tools have come because of the demand, from progressive, think ing farmers, for. implements . t ha t would enabtethem to reduce the cost of cultivation while aiding them to miease pro- duction per; acre, tainly. turn the trick." I I wonder how many farmers there are in our section who, hav- : " " " " !r ing changed from obsolete methods to big teams and good tools, have ever returned to their'first love? They are few in number, I believe. - To be sure, there are men who have bought two-horse cultivators for use in fields abounding in ditches, stumps and stones, and who have found these machines entirely unfitted for use in such fields. ,. I have knownmany such cases. But where the man was made of the right sort of material, instead of abandoning the labor-saving tool, he has turned his energies to the task of making conditions on his farm, right for its use. And that is the proper spirit; for we cannot afford to go through life with a load of boy tools hanging about our necks, thwarting our efforts, when, by the use of a little extra exertion for a short time, we may get our farms in shape to enable us to make prof itable use of a man's kit. J There are men in my county today I have seen some within a weekwho are going afield while I am yet asleep in the morning, and who remain in the field until long aftei1 iny horses have received their night feed. .And yet, when Saturday night comes I have plowed and harrowed more than three times the amount of land any one of them has during the week, and done a far better job. The reason is that l am pulling the lines over 3,800 pounds of good horse flesh and riding on or walking behind a good tool, while they are clucking at 800 pounds of mule in an effort to do a man s day s work with a toy tobU ., It is verf true that in a rolling country it is more difficult to handle laoor-saying. tools profitably man in a seuwuv ; " But a lot of thought given to the matter will enable the man of determ ination to see where a? few stumps removed, an old fence-row grubbed out, or a few hundred tiles used to blind a deep ditch will do much to enlarge the fields and make profitable use of good tools possible. Then, too, the deepening of the soil and its better preparation, that good tools enable onetobringabout, will do much to ward so increasing the yield per acre of the 'more level "portions of the farms that con siderable of the steepest land may be laid down in permanent pas ture, when team work on it will be done away with. The good tools mean so much to the man on the land that thought expended . in an effort to make their use possible will pay far higher interest than the same thought expended in making excuses for not using them. Shorter working days, cleaner fields, and better tools will cut out much of the drudgery of life, fill our farming with more of thought, and less of "main strength and awkwardness." FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE : Demonstration Work for Women Mrs. Hutt Tells How It Could Be ilad and How It Would Help ' . . . . " . . . 10 Farm Work for May Mr. Parker's Suggestions as to the Things to . Do Now . . . . . . . 5 Feeding Questions Answered Dr. Butler Gives Information of Value' to AD Stock Owners 3 How to Get Good Roads Some Comment on the Speeches Made at the National Federation Meeting 12 Marketing Problems Discussed Notes From the Conference for Education in the South ... . . . ... . . . 18 More About County Surveys What -They Tell and How to Get Them . ... . . . . ... . . .... . . . 6 Some Facts About Lime The Different Forms of Lime and Their Comparative Value 8 Study the Birds A Boy's Letter to the Young Folks . . . . 9 Timely Suggestions for Stockmen Ten Things Needing Present Attention 14 What You Can Do For Your Neighborhood Mr. Poe Suggests Five Things ..... . - . 13 Courtesy Moline Plow Co. JUST THINK OF THE GROUND ONE MAN CAN COVER WITH A TWO-ROW CULTIVATOR. t i -- ; t 'i , . r c. 4 U U Ah f 1 i :4 I 3 I 1 i 1 t w '! ; .-I ; 1 ':): l . . -.1 .. r' - ' . ..'I J i i - '6 -.,1 -4 ?'4 s 4 f - ' ) w V ' r " v. '- r- .. , . . . ., - -y .. :- ; . - v -. ..... .': ,.
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 3, 1913, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75