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Mondyrmdking Machinery LH Used
t ORROWED MONEY TO BUY HIS
FIRST B1PROVED BIACIIINERY
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I N .THE early, spring of 19 10 I
, bought a disk plow, ; and it pays
'for itself over and over -again every
year. ; In fall breaking I use it alto
gether. -" It breaks the land deeper
And more- thoroughly than other
plows, - and turns all the rubbish
""completely- under.' With three" mules
-1" can break my land 12 inches deep.
: and am .now growing 35-or 40 bush-
' nip rnoGiiLssivi: fakmlu
mention that it is goo&'also for sav
ing soy beans for, seed. i ' f ,
I also own- a- double-row corn
planter in cooperation with others.
. , . "i "' V Vt w i'. w. ' - r..i One man. with tbis planter can easily,
improved implements at once start now Machinery Dispenses With the plant 15 acres a day in rowsand'of
out with a few and gradually in-... . Hired Man . course . it takes a Uttie more, time
crease, or form a club with four, or " . wnen checking the corn - v ;
nve good neighbors and buy together T? IRST in mind with' me is the ma- T A& 1 ridinK cul.
Then instead of asking the merchants V nure spreader. because, of ; the fiAto? -btf ul 1 5dS ut-b
to credit you. you will soon be ask- splendid work that it lMolng;for:me,i.J
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intr nf mnniirA nvor mv fllrU na fast uiui uu 'i;Haio w vuw?i.
as made. '.- ' ; -
V I believe in handling only once,
and spread each week if possible, be-'
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- . . cause oi me saving in lauor auu gei-
A Time and Step-saving Fertilizer tIng ful1 value of the manure. I also
V ... ' - j K. - , , - believe in light applications on more.
; , . , Llixer ana Distributor :. -ground and fields covered of tener.(I
some money." Make a ' start - with
good tools and you will never regret
it v- :' E. M. SLEDGE,
v Goldonna, La. - ' O ' - : :
def perfect control; " The man or boy
is 'comfortably seated while doing as
much or more 'work in i a day than
two men with the single cultivators!
and doing it better. I can cultivate
from seven to ten acres a day and be
clean, and fresh at 6; 00 p. m. -
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rels Of corn where I formerly grew 15. fPHE . piece of machmery -which put fourOns per acre.) v A good ma- ' jasil 1 wm mention my gasoline
I also'have a two-horse mold-board 1 helped most to sate labor and ex- nure spreadermakes, a fellow feel f 6 f;J!U eJ 5 a nome-maae
'Plow, - but it is; not half -so satisfac- ; pense for me last year was a fertilizer like making more manure, then get- J. Which -makes it easily portable,
r u 4 r-.- 4 , I use this engine with a small erain
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a Mr. uroaie ana is now Deine manu- , cumes 10 mase more manure. Ana - .. "
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After getting my "plow I saw how '? M B"d1? is nbw, being manu
hnfliv T Wppflprf rtiQt harrnw anil laciureu in mis iown. i am manage
.purchased one lmmediatelyi I vhad
to borrow money to , get both of these'
; "implements but am proud to" say
tnat at the end of the first year I
. paid myV debt and 1 had something r left
.: that--i,would not have had It I thad
. not "used these tools : and now I can
:; pay cashfoYothers. -
The next year after v getting my
disk plow I bought a one-row riding
cultivator. This is a great labor
- saver, and just after, a rain in late
. spring - and- early - summer -you can
stir your soil so fast that very little
moisture ' can ' escape before you
.form- a dust mulch wer your whole
field. At the same time you are get-
.ting, ahead of, the grass land weeds.
I cultivate half as. much land again
now as before . getting my cultivator
and at the same time have increased
my yield per acre.. - . .
- .The next spring after getting- my
cultivator I got' a mowing-machine
and xhay. rake, and - during the sum
mer I saved so, much hay that. I could
.not store, it i loose, so I was forced to
-r get a, press' or lose the hay. .-. I ; sold
.enough hay that winter to pay for
, my -press, and last-, fall I pressed
. enough hay , for my neighbors to pay
,for my mower. I. do not expect to
. sell anyi more hay, . but ano( going, to
feed it on my tarm and sell livestock.
; rSince .getting my hayl saving imple
ments I 'have realized how cheaply
cattle. can be wintered and-I am in-
ucreasing my head as rapidly as pos
sible. 4 , t . ';
,r;r Last spring , I added , a binder to
my, list. si Tnis , was . somewnat ;; ex
gumes to make more manure. And
manager the cows pay for; the trouble. :
of two large farms, and used some- One man can spread 10 to 15 tons
thing like 300 tons of fertilizer this of manure a day with a good spread-
HOW DO YOU RATE YOUR LABOR?
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w VND yet, in spite of these improved implements and machines, there
-y re thousands of ; farmers who do not own a single machine of any
s kind that requires the power of two or. more horses to operate it i These
farmers, instead of utilizing the muscular power of dumb animals to do
two-thirds or three-fourths of the hard work on their farms; are them-
selves, or by their hired laborers, doing half the work. R: J. Redding.
oats, peas or beans very successfully
and with ; much ; saving of outside 'i
labor and cash I pull it to the; wood
pile and saw tip 1 2 to 1 4 : cords - of
wood, a - day. - This output can i be
profitably used at times,- . sawing ' .
wood for neighbors. This- same en
gine turns a. feed mill crushing corn
and cob meal or any: other - feed for-,
my cows,' saving -toll and going Ho '
mill; and last, but not least, it pumps;
fresh water in my pneumatic tank
each day while I feed, supplying
fresh" water to the kitchen, bath
room and barn which means untold
comfort to the wife, not saying any
thing about the stock. This is front 4
actual experience, - - v
Nohead, Va. H. L. MARCHANT.
pensive, but. I could not afford tQ. use saying. in cost, I bought all unmixed - spreading as thinly as four tons ber
an old cradle to cut .my oats. "Last
fall ? nearly , all' of my neighbors
planted large ; fields of oats, and 1
will get .all; the cutting I -can do
when they are ready, for harvest. At
cfirst I was a little blue over the pur
chase but; now I : feel that I have
; helped the . community, by encourag
ing -the farmers to grow more oats.
goods and find that with this machine .acre.' This , machine saves money-as
fertilizer can "be mixed" exceedingly wejl as labor. v
well and at no additional cost. The ' have A utag sulky plow just like
machine, is an, octagon-shaped .box, the, cut you see on the front page of
uum oi wooa ana neia logetner wittt-The Progressive Farmer, which savingdevices.
uuu uuus. n win uoiuraDoui a ion maKAS' TRA ninw nv a ni i.
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OI fertilizer and is amounted on two stead of . a hard and dirty job. A
wheels. One of these, wheels is free, ; 10-year-old boy can' do perfect work
ttuo.wiug ior iurnmg snarp corners, ; witn tnis plow and find sport in the
Threes Machines That Do the Work
NEARLY v every year we add -some
labor-sating implement . or de-
vice to the' home, both for field and
house, but: I will only mention three r'
that have been of special value to
us. Four years ago we . bought a pea
- thresher, v as we- had. had much dif- ;
Acuity in saving our pea crop by
beating the peas from the hulls by
hand. We . raise a great many peas
every year, and the task 0 separat-l
lng them from the hulls was one to.
b5 dreaded. Now,when the" peas are "
gathered, . they are, run through the
thresher in a short time and every
pea comes from , the hulls clean and
.no -bits of hulls are left in, the
threshed peas. , . They are stored
away in boxes or barrels to be used,
sold or fed to stock and poultry as V
we. need themiV The thresher is not
only a labor saver, hut a .money
saver as well,since iio peas are lost
as tfiey were by the old method of
beating them out by hand. ; :t
But of all the labor anH wnrW "
L like the incubator .
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With, this-machine and three horses and the other is attached to the box, work . However, if you have eood nnfirntnV
vl can easily cut; 10 or. 12 acres a day.
. ;I expect to make this. machine -pay
for itself and .then have it left;
-I' am nowplannlng to get a gaso
line , engine. - I , expect to . get one
large enough to run :any machine
best. Fr years I was afraid to tuy
dn incubator because I hadn't much
faith in themnor did I have -much
confidence In myself as a HiiABfni
One 4 spring Jhe mites
making the box revolve with'every teams, would
turn of the wheel. This .boxhas plow and make one man equal two ' pouTtr
flutes inside which-hold the. fertilizer : "It is well to plan to ha Tsomeflll ' 2?
until it almost reaches the top of the. and wlnTer Pl6whto do in Tdero Wyf 'kgg
box. and then droos it all toeethpr ftt. avofH ihi JLll .?,r ? -m.a?nIn 1 watched the first setting
tne Dottom. As this is a contimimift mnoarva mniaf.i.
that ..I neer4. . With, the engine am' process It takes only a short distance seed bed from good deep plowine -going-.to
'get- a; pump, ' feed grinder to thoroughly mix the fertilizer.' "I use a 10-foot spike-tooth harrow
and pea thresher. rThen I expect to; Inasmuch -as the fertilizer has to ; which
be .krte4--totliefleld.V-wli---W,iriii-rfiik " ;ui, ana tnis i
mixed or; unmid'I "tola -that by "r"'"" !ll!ra, .se,flderice.T Once,
-build a silo and get . an ensilage "cut
ter. I will then be ready to do away
. -withiny; old ;hay press, and get one
to be run by my engine. In another
. year L will be. ready for real stock
, wun rear and trembling, . and with
the instructions that came with ;the
incubator ' ever under my 'noseor
eyes," rather; ' From the first 50 eggs
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hauling to field and mixing at v the
same; time there is no additional ex
pense added; while there is a largo
thefirst working of my corn with fin ti1compan3
The disk-liarrow is a L ?LUL 3?. ?ubarv . Wen
iarming, ana men py aeep breaking, saving in buying the' unmixed goods, most farms in nrenarlnc a 7. -V a "ermometer it reg-
, thorough cultivation and .barnyard ThereMs an opening on one side" ot '-bed. A ?oy can Xive U iwt a ISJi ' 1 iF?i :1 L - ' 'u Mfint
-manure P am going to try to have tHe box to put in and let out the fer- a a manMne ,
tho best :tarm in rthe whole: ;.com-; tflizer, and there is nothing about the 12-foot cut -buid be?& to cool thoroughly
munity. , - machine to wear out or get out of fix. team is good "er the before relighting . the . lamp. . The
For three years I farmed with the The fertilizer is simply poured into Kext I'll mentim, h Artu m-A':'.?
common; - unimproved tools; and; the opening when it Is at the topand low farmers, if there T are L IH nT bcom ited. over trifles. . :
barelymade expenses, anoI honestly; let out at the same opening when it who do not know therfl Instep oj drawing water' tor "the
believe that if I had notborrowed is at the bottom. - .
'money Ho, K first gold Imple- -i The simplicity T of the machine you will in tZJJ? P.umP d by means of iron pip- :
i-;b.ecom ter result, with Tesi 3 : LI..fr?m:: the !!o a
I. . . ; . . "' , ' : we : pasture; even a
. . . . small child can-toiihthtowtiro
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couraged,.that I would have Vaunted of buying unmixed fertilizers against
some; more promising profession; ; mixed fertilizers- has made - it es
:but ;wlth good implements thSre . is specially valuable' 'to us. V -no
profession like rf arming. .'; ; J. B. DODSON,
i-vAA.ywu ru ooie to,puy.4set?rflI Aberdeen, N. 0.
: t w tiji , . ' small child can ptihip the 'water for
others, but of course we all know the ii r fun toidd 22- Swii??.:1!
cunt oniy f iu
' - w nil iiuuw iue
uecefsity - ot this machine, where
wheat or oaU are raised. I might Pelitanj La.