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FROM A COY DIXIE TO A TRACTION-PLOW OUTFIT
Making Implements Pay Is Matter for. Thought And iStudjr;.
This Man Tried Them All And Succeeded
.J. W. Faun tinn. Reeves, Georgia
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The home tract" was about ono-third .
of the plantation, the other tracts
having been Tented out. Prospective
purchasers , came' and looked and
wanted the home placo but were" not
"anxious lor the rest. '. After several
days the home place was sold for one-1,
third more per acre than I could' get
Hwro
uahhred
1 1 MIE first thin you want
to know about a horse -
is his pedigree. " You
should know the pedigree of '
? th e i sh oes you buy who
; made them and how they are ;
; made. Don't buy. nonde- ,
; script shoes when you canbuy f
LONG-WEAR
V: SHOES -
Our Bell Trade-Mark is reg
istered. We have spent
s thousands of dollars advertis- .
ins: the shoes with tnis.Trade-
: Mark and can't afford to put
' it on anything font an honesty :
well made shoe: A$k your
V dealer for shoes with the.'
:: Bell Trade-Mark, made by , .
- ynohbur ;Vsv ,
my experience with improved- harvest problem. I bought;. M".
Dixie- one-horse turning plow to the with grain, but the straw was so short ; Pents on tnis pannox only nad i
tractor and gang plows l am now . the binder wouldn t tie it, and I lost
using. ; I hope it may prove instruct-, out again and had to use the 'turkey
ire to someone who is contemplating - ,wing" on most of the crop. V
-made money' by increasing myXcap-
acity, hut had enhanced In value this
' farm more than 1 3, 00 0 in Its selling
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Ret.t. On 1 1
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the use of improved farm, imple- . After that I sowed rye Instead of
ments.' . v . .7 wheat and had good success, Later 1
. It " is better'to begin, at the. first, bought a .smoothing- harrow - to
My story dates back to the year 1898 smooth the grouad as an aid, in har
when ; .1 Quit - school ' and married, vesting. ' Long before this I had re
price. ; It- was not one :; whit Jbetter.
land;' but " smooth, - machine-worked;
fields caused the differencei
.Stumps and Stones Must Be Qut
- of tlie Way - - -
luo vv iiuvuuig tuiiv ttpocuvu ia.- jjiaceu tJiuse tmiieii jjiuwo jhilu. guuu tjj prTRirjHASlNG anbtnef' farm" I
1 had a mental nlctu re f what I
me like the farm. My tather owned
a large plantation, : and I being the there.
only child, he turned it over, to me, : burst
h being engaged in other business.
The farm was growing pine bushes,
briers, persimmon sprouts and a crop
of hound dogs and negro children. I
had no tools and no stock 7 but a
buggy horse and an old mule. ' X
steel ones, and my troubles were over
rnn
uu ft ST wanted, and strange to say, I-found
and subsoil and my. crops in- r owH1i V -
creased to quite a decided gain, Fa-Rtnmwi Cfa c
knui u.wuuwi jrwwu MVbl U1UT
ther had an enginero the. next im
portant implement -was a corn husker
.and' shredder. It -was the first ma-:
chine that I had bought that realljr
paid. I had that year about a thous-
bought a dlst harrow and a Boy Dixie and hushels to shred; and there was
plow,-and with; these and some other such an immense amount of stover I
old Georgia ratehetjstoeks I made my "i-was forced to buy a hay press, which
flrst,crop -about 400 bushels Of corn,
with some truck patches. That fair I:
traded 65 bushels of corn to a mer
chant for a disk plow the second one
I. ever saw; . It was not a success,"
owing to fthe hilly fields, gullies,
stumps and rocks, but I used it'every
where I could and watched for re--ffults
in the next crop. There was no
great difference la its favor, but there TN THE following few years I had
was some. That plow put me to diK- X : finite a renntation for buTinr er-
was a very poor excuse for a press.
My'- corn; crop haying been cut ; with ,
hoes "and shocked, it got tangled and "
crossed and. was difficult to shred, so
. the only way to avoid it was Co Use a
Ncorn binder. .1 bought one.' -
Home Water Works and Electric .
ging stumps, filling gullies and. ter
racing. I used it for a tew years and
ery cheap, worthless device that canto
ing to py new:home I made another
break for modern implements. "If f
first important purchase .was a' trao-" . "
tor-plowing outfitk Other tools htvoT'4
been added and-will be until1! shall
have stocked this farm with conven- v
iences as the- one -J once had.. Last x
year, , 1915; which was" my first one J
here, with the aid of one.mani I ,
broke,, planted ; and cultivated 130 v
acres , in' cultivated crops," besides 4a..
acres in grain : which was followed sla T
peas. This would not have been pos--ible
with . the:1 one " man and four
mutes I had I not ised the tractor- -plowing
outfit, two-row. planter, rid- -r
ing cultivators and other tools of like
capacity. The year before this 1912) '
there were six men and nine mules'
srgssfsssr
Proven by tests to be the most durable
: uwire prodnced. Heavily Cahmiad wit
heights, each a sdisfyiag-jTialitr fuce. . .
WE CEIL DIRECT TO THE FARMER
AT DEALER'S PniCES.
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He your own merchant and put the
Dealer's Profit inyonr own pocket
where it belongs. The following are a
few of our big values:
' 2S4ac& Dog Fence, Ik. pernL
.' 41-4iich Farn Feme, 2U. per red.
, 484ach Penlbr fence, 21VkL per rtvL
Special Barbed Wire, $L48per 80-tc4 SpoeL
RoW on 39 DATS FMXTKIAL " Get In with
tne snrewa buyers by sending tor our
uig iree catalogue, it s run or xence
n- rem 1 ri m wnta tnfliTr
: COILED SPIUNG ITItCE CO. -tin
11 " VTiKkester, XaAiaaa
along. I had aU the shelters full of .rT'r " ttiyf' TVUf
- -- : about the same production, although
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TRACTION PLOWIKG JE3IONSTRATIOXtV COLLEGE 'STATION, TEXl
a more favorable season. We brblr3,
cusKea an& narrowed ; 1 2 acres per
day and five acres at night in addition
to the i day's run; wetplanted 20 acres
per day; cultivated 20,acres a day;f
harvested 10 acres of ' grain; a. day, 7"
plowed harroWed;1 drilled and rolled
15;acres to peas in a day-nd night's ' :
run. : We cut and raked 10 acres hay 'v
per day, "and : with the large "power
press baled 15 tons, but thai was .the -only
instance in which ' we ' two . did
not do vall ! thei work, :'as:,balingre-'-
quired several men and ' teams. '
. -With these Implements oif :in1a ,
farm, which Is ideaMor: their ttse'
with one helper, except a few days in
the fall,' r have gathered around
3,&ou - worth of .farm ' nroducia At
quitf but ; Itlpaid47-not mf Dlbwlne--' tools. ' How I ever naid for th nil
hilt nr eAiis1n trt flcuvr mv -fiftlHa "? iq nnrsttti' h tltav mnnt v i .h-
y - "o ... -iyr-. .. . iuc; uiuoi uao am- jji cscm t, prices, ano Tine . nelson ;itva3
ua ctuuipo, jsvuuea anu snxues. ; ,? ga m ine wora'.io a great extent or l Tery drr in thfs Brtim
' My '; next - move ;: was to p. get w more
stock, a pair of chilled twb-horso
turn plows and a planter. With these vjofa . "Little Joe"
plows I turned. over those old ; hiUs, Whtx, cotton chopper, stalk", cutter,
terraced, and epent more for repairs walking planter, riding planter, sulky
than the first cost of the plows, there "plow, ' two-horse; cultivator--riding
were so many ; stumps and : under- and walking besides all the other
ground rocks. ; I could make a very " things mentioned; - : At' last; when I
good "seed bed and plant; but had could think of nothing more, I. de
nothlngv to use in cultivation but a termined to reward my wife for her
"scooter an scrape.". I planted cot-; cheerfulness :? and forebearance. I
ton for a ye, ar or two, but those old bought a gasoline engine and a wood
washed-away hills did not yield more saw; No more was she without cood
than you can predict, so I lost money
on : that: v? 1 y. ... '0::.c: U:
Mv : "holnoi .
never could have done it. I had in- cost me 500 and board, but I had to
vested in everything I could hear have
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harrow,. Gee operate ma(mmferv ronerlv. , ntwr
expenses, outside of feed were $200'
for; fuel and outside labor. : Mf ma
chinery, is practically as good as newjSS
now navo 4W acres in grain and ar--good
acreage of plowing done for this
year's crop-done mostly at night, aa
there was no time to lose in the day
from the gathering of the crop. If,
" Do modern implements pay? '. That 'r
depends. If your land is to) nnti
Failures at First
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on
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d " i two-ficre dreto with one mttlnj poll etumpa,
r7"Q tree rnd hrfre quick trad caar. Ym ean
r-: I tr f tr than yvm cai out tlMwa 2va,
eaving thO land dwir ur culUu.ion.. ;'; -
t. Zl:z Combination Ciunip Pc"cr
Xl'ibrtwii-iiJito inn dv rapid -poworf ul, Th oely
let that cat
mix. tura or eair-ancDorea. t'oaoie, mp rna wa
ntnrea tba murk
ean b! eet cithoc elunp-
ruple AtteLrmi. Also Rotary rower Attaotnnent
lr aawinir. (criadiof, te. Write for re catalogue.
i via, ca en fca st. Menrnoua, n.
Our advertisers are guarantee!.
ary wood. Then I i added a pumo. free from" nhat
tank and complete system of water the implements suited to your par- -works.-
She had water In every room ticular Una of vnrir .nH
t) IJBSCItlBED "for a C f arrn paper r 'lom cel,ar JPstairs.. I bought her; erate them they will pay, and par-;
1 -and got interested in sowing amall, a Power washing machine and wring- well. I am 'confident that with vthi
grain and following with peas to en- also P;pa Metric lighting stools I have mentioned, under favor-
rich the soil, That atruck me favor- Vi W1u "&uveu P iae: nouse,-aoie conditions, I can make $1,000 r
ably. . It :leaked;out;A'aid-;anagenti outbuildings at; our- worth of farm products to each mule : ;,
Boon had: my order for a' grain drill -
pleasure. ine also had a Jaree elec- used in tfiA wimimm.ai v "..
and mowing machine andrake. That! t""ia 111 we ainmg room. Myl she prices being the same as now.- Last "
fall I 'put in quite a lot of wheat (for wa Pleased, tickled and happy. Next. but a Tery imporUnt factor Is tho"
that section.): The harvest came, It t fought her an automobile and we ease and comfort there; Is both in ;
was wet: crops all in' the grass and 5ad Jf1"17' and as tnree Httle chil- , body and mind, as you sit comfdrt- '
no help. . I came very near losing my ren nad coe to brighten; our home ably In the shade if you like and ride' "v
crop harvesting my wheat. I used a w? :were. quite happy in our conven- oyer the field to do your work - " ' -nine-pound
'nurkeyv wrng cradle
when threshed made two bushejs per hightour little family, were grouped . stances, but held strictly to the facts
i are. I swore it would-be the last.-;1 sadness around "the smoking; re- ia my case. , That Is why, possibly as - -i
Tftls was-followed by peas, and I mains of what had beei so lately our a farmer and not a newspaper writer"' -mde;
quite a Slot fof hay, : sprouts; borne. ; ; ; : ;.':; ' V .. tWs story may be": consigned to the
weexis ana.gruDs ail raicea up togetn- Those old hills had resnonded to wasto-pasket or the boiler room.
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er.ywy mower. was..ahout torn up my labors; they were producing twice
the lt season. .That fall, looking as much. as before. Now there were
back dyer my difficulties, I concluded no stumps,- no washes and no-rocksr
iuuB,u.io6ttiu ftuu uui a goQu -1D18 was tne ''home place-on which
-rirticie W sriV.prW our i "ved- 1 declded.to maks a change.: n FebruarV.at;.PiSr y;VtehJ
chinory Bieclal co.TapetUlon.--TUe Editors. ' The entire farm' Was Offered for Sale. rmer:.IIta: Paed. Dothaa
mSo ii! uen enoush r,a t three'-!
months to cet the ground too wet to nlow
Is '" P'ow In his field
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