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IMPLEMENT AND MACHINERY SPECIAL. Tennessee and Georgia. Iltti Rsglgttr4 In U. 8. Patent Offlee. A. Farm and. Home Weekly: for the Carolines, Virginia, VcL XXIL No. 51. RALEIGH, N. C, FEBRUARY 6, 1808. Weekly : $1 a Year. Mr. Farmer, Slop Running Your Brain with one-Horse Power. - The plain truth is that, not even excepting the need of diversified crops and more attention to general stock raising the . main reason why we are making only $353 worth of salable products on each farm in this State as compared with $1,152 worth on each Iowa farm is that down here the farmer works his brain with one-horse-power while In Iowa we find farming done by two, three, and even four horse-power brains. What T moan ia )llnctvtorl hv tho W AAAV M. JUVMU Ak7 AAA AJ wA MVU J KUV simple fact that if one . man with a two-horse cultivator can cultivate two rows at a time, while with one- UVAOV JAV WW AV WW.W. A .. A A,.. V wwww men and two horses, then it is plain that the one-horse mantis operating his brain with one-horse power, the cultivator man with two-horse power. I, traveled out West last summer, and my friend Mr. C-C. Moore, of the Cotton Association, traveled all over the Southern States. Mr. Moore says that in a fourteen-day trip in the States between North Carolina and the Mississippi River he saw only three two-horse cultivators at work, while on the other hand, in the Me J die West through which I traveled last summer, one of our favorite one-horse plows for land-breaking would be as much an object of curi osity as your grandfather's sickle for . cutting wheat. I was in Iowa and needed little more to explain why they are making three times as much per iarm as we maite, wnen x was told that by actual statistics, with l one-half the number of farm labor ers we have, they work five times the number of horses. Down here where a .... . .. the farmer multiplies his brain by only one-horse power, he uses an eight-foot harrow and one horse; in , Iowa, where the farmer works his brain with from two to four horse power, he uses a twenty-foot harrow with three horses drawing it. In other words,, he multiplies his own strength by that of three horses and does two and one-half times the work of the Southern farmer, this explaining in a large measure why :4 There is ao possible Improvement of any kind in Southern farming that The Progressive Farmer is more anxious to bring about than the use of more two-horse plows and culti vators, and more tools and machinery 'of all kinds to stop running our brains with one-horse power, while Northern and Western farmers run theirs with two, three, or four-horse power. We want to see our farmers stop doing work (or running themselves to death to get hired men to do work) that sufficient mules and good toolsand machinery can do, and would do, at half the cost that human labor can do it. This Is just about the biggest reason why Southern farmer in spite of having the immense advantage we have In our mo nopoly of the world's cotton crop 4s poorer than the Western- farmer a fact which our Associate Editor Scherer ham mers home on page 2, Prof. Massey on page 3, and which Dr. Knapp proves by unquestioned statistics on page 11. he makes over, two and one-half times as much salable produce. A friend was telling me only this week of seeing one of our big plant ers hauling f ertilizer in six one-horse carts with six men, when two men with one four-horse wagon would have done the work better. Mr. A. L. French, in a striking article recently showed that on many of our big cotton plantations land ' is being plowed by the one-horse sys tem at a cost of two dollars per acre, when the cost might be steadily re duced by increasing the number of horses until, with the gang plow sys- . ' a . " " ' ' " ' ' V -a 1 -w ... tm. me exnense wouia oe oiiiv sev enty-five cents per acre. Dr. Tait Butler told me only yes- leroay oi seeing six une-iiurso piu w at worKOue uuc ui uur lurgeob inruis, and said that' this farmer had ex actly three times as much labor as he needed. AndDr Butler agreed ?witli me that the biggest problem in bringing Western profits to Southern farmers is to bring our farmers to do their executive work, their brain work, with two or four horse-power in stead of one-horse power. vve may oe just as capaoie as tne Iowa farmer, but we are not using our capabilities just as you may be as strong as I am, but if you. use a frow in trying to cut wood and I use a sharp axe, there is no question as to which will have the biggest wood pile. We' may have just as much brains as our Western brother, but if he runs his by three-horse power and we run ours by one-horse power -well, we shall find that our being too slow here meets the same pun ishment such slowness usually does in the West: "He had sand in his craw, But was slow on the draw, - So they buried him under ths daisies." I repeat and I would emphasize it above anything else in this address what we need in the South most of all, is to get every farmer, who can . . .... do so, to stop running his brains with one-horse power, and substitutetwo, three and even four-horse power.- v Extract from an address , by Editor Clarence H. Poe, of The Progressive Farmer, before Sampson County Cot ton Growers Association. WHAT YOU Wllili FIND IN THIS WEEK'S PAPER. Page: m arm Implements That Have Helped Me v Most . . 6 and 7 Fighting Insect Pests in February, Franklin Sherman ; 17 Gardening Notes, Mrs. C. S. Everts . . . . . . . . . 9 Gasoline Engine on the Farm. . . .... .4 and 19 Implements Progressive Farmers Should Have 11 Legumes and Deep Plowing, Godfry Winkler .12 More Mule and Less Man, Paul Hoffman . ... 1 3 More Horses, Not More Hired labor. ...... . 11 More Horse Power and Less Human.-. ... Our Advertising News ........ . .V. . . . . Parable of -H. Alf Goode. , ....... Suggestions for February Farming. ... . . lvrying to Farm With Human Machines. ... What Tools Can I Afford? A. L. French. 3 18 7 14 2 5
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