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. " THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER - - ISC (31) HOW IMPLEMENTS ANDMACIIIN- ERY SAVE HUMAN LABQR of a gang of ,ten 10-inch turn plbwV ..--. V , Tj drawn by a 30 horsepower gasoline; Some Changes, a Our: Agriculture : tractor : and -turning over- 15r30; . -Brought About by Their Use "acres of j sod- in 'a' day and-doln; It v ' ' " .better than 'could be done .with -20 , ; "T TORY-many, farmers fair to realize horses 'and 20 one-horse' plows, hd1 - Vthe importance rof the develop- and- gripped and pushed by -20 men. ; :ment of - modern' farm ..imple-,- , - -. -. . v' v;0Ur wuVv v ments:and:. farm machinery iand its ef- o vot iTnh i: -i ' ' . ' ... ... ... . - 1 itBct;oiv:tteeYelopmenot.thU r t t i . .i i! '"VsSsaF a l f sal -1 J- m r Sim " " ii- - .i. n i ii i sj aa f . 'try. : These' same- farmers -are, mostly -v-vj .7. -avo -;-v of.the.steyhomesonvandaye ly a:vague idea.of what isgo sections .. more :or stheir own. - They are ihar-d. -ork vwith !ttie .use. of the whiqh they, and- them v have.' been is the mainspring are Went- o rely jtoo .muqh if -not: QUT XHE SECTION HARROW exclusively; ;on;o.rewuv'Buu ',iuubvi( . 'j. 'y.z. ; - a-:.; '- and too little' or, not; at. ail, on . the , ! ' 'V-Ll- : ess: t wsw apttonhjnk; that; rrr, :-. r-tW,Wmple.xtoo .theirrfathersbetorei:;- XacQUstqmedto-;useV;:;,;r of xsuccess: f -They , St&yh'&z: 4- r About jGES ago; Thbr9 the cham- iiohofthe Scandinavian p&s invaded Jotunheim, the una of the giants, and 'was, challenged to feats of skill by Lbki, the king. . 7 ' - V Thor matched Thialfi, the swiftest of mortals,againstHugi in a footrace.. Thrice; they swept over the course, but each tmie Thialfi 'was hopelessly 'defeated by Loki's runner. Loki confessed s to Thor. afterward ; that; he had de ceived the god by enchant ments, saying, "Hugi was my . thought, and what speed can ever equal his?" . ; But the flight of thought is , no longer, a .magic power of mythical" beings, for : the Bell Telephone has made it o common daily experience. genius that has bee!:j30 , wonderfully prftsfiil. iTT nillltiTllvinC the. results TWWPW ta rr nttiei InntriiTOfcn f of manual labor. ; . .;-Si:i : W - S-- A so much imDortance in: nrenarink V Does the reader know: that as Jate aT seed-bed arid starting : pff af crbpv s 3 as 1845- (the writer remembers) the .is -the section harrow..; . ' wver ine teiepnone, ine Wuh bread, and that on snnlctn thmiaht is Iransmirten farmer's . table " "flour bread instandy, direcdy where we f"?" 'gSfJZZ. Send it, OUtdlStancmg every f0ur and one-third bushels per head, other means for the carrying while) in 1890--45 years later it had; risen to 10 ; Dusneis per . neaa .01 total population This gave twice, as much as - we could consume and the excess went to Europe; ; And yet. the percentage of persons engaged : In farming in 1 8 9 0 had decreased to 80' many a . breaking plows before the clods have i mn in iirv nur. nr nnrwiHH' Vnn win. have to wait for a rain before they ; will pulverize.; But by air means harrow until these V clods are all . broken up, for if you don't you are liable on some'' soils to " have clods when you lay by. With the use of , the section- harrow you are ' enabled to get over much ground In ; a short time. " iz: t zy'-'i Jr;." Whenever possible get a "90-tooth of messages. In the Bell System, the tele phone lines reach throughout the country, and the thoughts : or the people are camed "with per cent of the proportion so engaged or three-section harrow. s It will take - lightning speed in all direc tions, one mile; a hundred, or two thousand miles away. : And because the Bell System so adequately serves the practi cal needs of the neonlei thf. seed drills, etc.- What would be our C a.,JL r-JL fl:-"L supply of wheat if we were suddenly niagiu w uwuio oyvui denrived of all these machines arid implements- and were forced to - rely on. the methods of 1840? The ! same -; remarks apply with 45 years before! What made this possible? The answer is the advent or "patent plows" (as they were, first called in derision); the self-bmding harvester, and the steam threshing machine, to say nothing of the disk :. harrows, occurs 25,000,000 times every twenty-four hours. American Telephone and Telegraph Compaky :I And Associated Companies' V y One Policy.: v One System Univcrcal (Semes No man can afford to buy a single rod of fence or a sate of any kind till he first compares with the values I offer in my two new free books. ' A postal card request brings tlem as fast as steam , cmo trTeU . Tor &S year I have been In tha fence tmslnees Kad more than 400.000 prognestTe farmers bare found Brown Fence to be tbe treat' en two in toe wona, eoia on tne nciii plan, direct irom raoxorr, rra cut - :ed by goarantee that insure your perfect eatlaf ao way. vrer xo uxuuon roaa 01 my teoce are now in prepaid, backed I3o Per Rdil Up uberal aamtt Brown Fence to tesi Brown Fence is made of Basic .Open Hearth wire. stay fence that cant be equalled by anything else on the market. My book will open your eyea to aome real velnea that keep a aloe banco, ot dollara n thf aqnare at home in your own pookeL 1&0 fctylea to eelect from, for erery porpoee. Write me postal now. ; Jamtt Drown, Pnttdent " . Tho Brovvri Fcnco l WirbC b. SSS wniTr WU er cisvslsnd. now "71 1 lSj i i '' nj I,! ttkoti.i . ' 'IIIMIlilliliiiiiiirTA.. ...... i lYilllllllll "'""HMnn,Mnf1iiHM)iimiul lXW!nt . o nmmilttUIMNtlHIHIIItlllHIMimillHIfil IllUHIINHIIIII jimMHtHIHMIM . ollMHmilMMIIMIUItllllllllllhllllHIHItlll R M l ltl tHIIIWIHHHia tMillMimilUHIHMIIIIIIIIIIHHHIimiHUIII -".-j HllltlllMlllllllil . . lawn fence and tatea combining ex. treme beauty with greatest strength. nki. i i i i i u 0 rmtttfta O: . Convenient farm gates, ail styles, direct to you at maney-savlns factory prices. three mules," hut will enable one man to do a third more work than he ; would do with two sections rr and, man labor is the thing on whicli Vwe ' need to economize. With a good team f one hand should easily; go over ;20 ; acres per day, and I know of no'im-.; plement that will do so much of the': same kind of work. : V J . ' 1 1. ' Then-just after the crop is planted, before it comesViin.ia another time ? when the section harrow , is : very milch needed j If ; t.n' efft''- h'aa I'comeya'ii more or less force to the production hard. Wirin? rrtitKhifoMm the case, the-, harrow may fsaye your stand by .'" loosening iipi the i fcnist and .; it is only 'a t eyr rdayprk' going over : the . whole, crop. ; -TToU n wlir al$o drag whaCtrasli 7 there is tdvthe ms where It will be ut : of 'your way vin the early working of the little plants. ; Aft6r-the cotton and cprn are up the- section harrow fs indispensable in starting off the ' crop and beginning' ' the . cultivation. : Here ; is 1 another. time where quick action is needed, farmers and manufacturers depend- f or thevwhole crop neds to be gone; ent on farm producU. The list is alW &1a' : o ,over ;y0ur: most interminable. cotton- andcornj; crossing the rows It is true that machinery- and im-? f011 toD; plements for preparing theAlan. planting the seeds, cultivating the angle ot about 45 degrees In four plants and harvesting the matured: ' 5 oj again in the pp crops are those that are of the great- Posite . direction, harrow until. you ; cut value to farmers. Even these are- nave all, the ground broken, and your almost confusing in their number and , uaB siartea on to vigorous : varietr grpwjng. You can harrow cotton un- in u nas iour ornve leaves. "At. this time lt does work, in cotton that can not be done with 'anything else! .nit breaks the crust betwen the little of most of' the crops Of - thefarm. Think of it! Liess than 120 years ago there was not a cotton gin in ex istence'' and .-. we-. made (our great grandfathers) - less than 5,000 bales per: annum at the beginning of the nineteenth century! - s ' Many Machines to Select From . UT it' is. hardly nossible to even enumerate the great number, of farm machines' for house and field use, that are now used by up-to-date B nn a t."'...!! burrle an carrtaRr. s combine those Vrt.mJ auallUes so easentlal to comfort. strle and durability. In which they are surpac.ee Vy nous ana equal lea or lew. Errry mob of mater, talts carefally selected and erery operation per. formed by skilled carriage mechanics. Thirty years xperlencn in practical baggy building; enables Ul to give yoa the beet burgy at any price. IT HO ACCNT m VOOH CITY WNITK US. CATALOG OH WtQOtST . crs'oziD nucGY co .,V..;;cxfonDf.ri..c. i.v THE ARISTOCRAT of BUGGIES uc3i vaiuGsonino marKci Stylish Durable tn err ' From a strictly practical point of view agricultural implements and machinery are valuable, chiefly be cause ' ' i. -.' . ' . ' 1. They enable the farmer to do better work. y' t " : :-r . - 2. To do more work In a day. Z. They enable' him to plant and cultivate a larger area. V" plants, thins them to some? extent, and keeps them from running up long shanked as they will whett' left too thick, waiting for the hoes. A , crop handled in this way will require 4. By their use he does not have irom one-mird to a . half less hoeing, to work so hard and such long hours. a afln t wore man labor. ' " 5. The farmer is thereby enabled to get some useful and effective work out of his horses and mules. 6. He is also enabled to employ more mules and horses; -Yon cannot afford to be without a section harrow and go ahead the old t 1 slow way, "barring, off, hoeing out;'.1 and sweeping up," for'when you get 5 to- the other side of the field vour The more modern: machines (mo- crop is In about as, bad shape where i tors) will soon enable the farmer to you began as it was at first.: largely lay aside horse-and mule " 1 " ; - ; J. W. LWILLIS. ? power and substitute in , their place' Grenada,' Miss, gasoline and steam-driven traction I ' ' ' ' motors, whwith theow bflwo, n,, four, Six, and even Up tO-20. Or more' Reference BpecUl, February fourteenth.' No mules or horses mar ' be utilized - in &.rIn.:pftIr hM vr 1""i anything ... . . . , Ull 11. I cfu-:rim nmnv naov.i : v ,sf '. r ' i'4 V v r "i
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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