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Thursday, February 11, i0 9. THE MIOGIIESSIVE FAllMElt. 7i "1 Never to Replant Since I Bought Planter.0 Mr. Ross Also Finds That the Mower Enables Him, to Get More Hay From the Same Land, and the Reaper More Wheat With a Two-Horse Hay Rake He Can Do a Day's Work in an Hour. . I Y EXPERIENCE with farm machinery is jrery limited as my supply is not very exten sive. I only have a. drill, reaper and binder, mowing machine, rake, corn planter, and riding cultivator, and I find that they are all good and do good work. ; . ' . . Buy an 8-Hoe Drill. : The drill was ,the first piece I bought, and I now" see that I made a mistake there in that I bought a 6-hoe instead of an 8-hoe drill. I use it for a good many things. I sow all my grain with it and my peas, always getting them regular and the right amount of seed per acre. I also drill fertilizer when I want it broadcast and find it to be a great labor-saver and considerably faster than plowing it in. ( Reaper Saves Every Head of Wheat. The next thing was my reaper and binder, and I find it to, be a perfect success, saving nearly every head of wheat; and always since I bought it, I have let my' wheat remain standing until it gets fully ripe, thereby add ing much value to the grain. I con sider the reaper and binder , one of the best and greatest labor-saving implements. . "I Never Have to Re-Plant Corn." The next was the corn planter. I find that to be a very paying little machine, for the corn comes up bet ter planted with a planter than any other way I ever planted. I never have to re-plant since I began to use the planter; and another - good thing about it, the crows never pull it up. I find that I have less pulled up than any of my neighbors that plant with the hoe. Riding Cultivator is Good Every '.. where. My next purchase was the riding cultivator. I use that for so many things I hardly know where so begin, but I like it especially for cultivating my land after it is broken, preparing my seed bed. I put 2-inch plows on it and I find it does better work than a harrow. It is good every where you want to make a fine seed bed. It is the best for cultivating any- 1 thing that is planted in straight rows. Mowing Machine and the Rake. Next came the mowing machine. That is the best, for I can put it in many places. It is one of the finest and greatest labor-savers I- have. I find that I get a lot more hay from the same land than I did before I began using .. the mower. I also keep my weeds cut a thing I never did when I had to do it by hand. The rake is a tool I can't see how any one can rake pea vines without. I can take two horses and do a day's work for a man in one hour and do it better than it can be done in any other way. Get a Washing Machine Too. j I have two washing machines and think both are good the 1900 and the Easy. I. G. ROSS. Stokes' Co., "N. C. ' : money at 10 per cent as many do, ' bought forty rods of wire netting, arid tell you that they are not able ' and I liked that so well, and it did Good Tools and Fences Will Pay tor Don't Try to Buy Everything af Once, But Get What You Need Most and Make Each j Implement Pay Its Way. sMessrs. Editors r The worst draw back that we Southern farmers have is iittle "bitty" mustang ponies and mules and small plows to match. Get some big mules or horses and good big plows and put two horses or mules to one plow and do busi ness. Some one will say . that he can't afford it, that he can't buy the implements, or can't make enough to J pay for them. That is true with the oTitfit you have been using, but, not so with the improved outfit. It will pay for itself and more besides, and it will make your thoughts broaden in the same proportion as your fur rows broaden. " : What we have got to do is to let horse and mule power take the place of so much human labor. The time is here when it is a necessity to use the labor-saving implements, when one man that uses his brain can get on a donble-row planter with two good mules and plant two rows at a time, doing the work, you might say, of eight hands to put the land in the same good condition. Then when the corn is up, he gets on his cultivator and does the work of two hands and more (because he does it better). . "Oh," but some will say, "I haven't got the stumps out of my land." Well, how long can you say that if jyou don't - commence to take them out? I think that no better time could be spent on the farm than get ting your land in shape for the im proved tools. When you see a man begin to .invest something for improved im plements, instead of lending his to pay for them, you are going to see something doing "down.-. l south in - Dixie." i We are on the line of improvement now. Thirty years ago we split rails and built fences; now we use wire, both barbed and net ting. When I first thought of build ing such a fence. I thought it would bankrupt me. I counted lip the miles of fence at so much a rod' and backed down right now, seeing I could not do it. But after awhile I not break me, . I tried eighty rods. That came out all right, and the next year I "bought 340 rods, and this year 300 Yods. Now I feel like my tenclng days are over. It is the same way about buying improved im plements. Don't try to get it all at once, but buy a tool at a time, and soon you will have what you need and won't know how you got them. R. P. WRIGHT. - Leake Co., Miss. Where to Buy the Best Farm Implements ROYAL REVERSIBLE DISC PLOW The only Reversible Plow that lifts the dlso from the soil while reversing the frame of plow remaining in perfect position for the return fur row. Made with 20-inch disc for two horses and 24-inch disc for three horses. Get onr special oiler, now, including the Royal two. three and four horse plows, single and double diso. 20 and 24 inch. The Royal Plows have special patented features which give them special advantages over all others. Write ua for the facts, write To-Day. CHATTANOOGA IliPLEUENT & UAXUFACTUmG C0., DpL Y. CKATTAX08&A. TOM FREE BOOKS and Farm Paper Free Ilkt Draft Plows Standard. For Two Generations TRADE MARK for our handsome booklet. It " is printed in colors and shows beau tiful photos taken in many parts of the world There are pictures of plows used in foreign countries as far back as 5000 iA- ?y 1 O , rl -jr&f years. The highest type of modern plows. fT r' 1 I both walking and riding, are also shown. This Book FREE If you are interested in farming, we will mail you our 16-page farm paper for one year absolutely free. Fine illustra-" tions, valuable information. There is no ' other paper like it. Write for Free Booklet No. 6 and get the paper free for one year. We win also send full information about JOKN DEERE plows. By actual tests the lightest draft plows made. Finest finish, longest life. Simply give number of f the booklet and mention this paper. DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, Illinois J-. n sh nn. nni nn u uuiruiiuuLi? m mwm w mdmm n ittv n mum They Arc Turning the Cotton and Corn Ground Over at a Saving of HALF in Time, Men, Hlules! Big Crops and Profits Follow the "True Blue" Everywhere! A & Wide-awake planters have been quick to see the tremendous advan- -tages of Blount's "True Blue" Middle-Breaker or "Splitter." Wherever this implement has been introduced, its success is unpar alleled. It cuts the expense of Planting and Cultivating both Uotton and Uorn at least half. This statement is backed up by letters from leading planters in every Southern state. Possibly you never before had your attention called to the advantages of my wonderful "True Blue" Middle-Breaker. If such is the case, We ask you to write for our free "True Blue" Books and the actual letters proving beyond the shadow of doubt that this is The Greatest Labor-Saving Invention for Planters Since the Cotton Gin ! Thousands in Constant Use ! We made a study of soil conditions in Mississippi. Georgia, Alabama and the rest of the great . cotton-producing: states. Blount's "True Blue" Middle-Breaker meets these conditions better than any other Middle-Breaker made. It Is compact tremendously strong: made of the higrhest grade Crucible Cast Steel that money can buyhas steel or wood beam. The beam is short, and you can make short turns in hilly land you can gro clear to tne end or tne row, close up : to the fence. Wherever a mule can ?o, Blount's True lime" Middle-Breaker -will follow. The ligrht draft Is simply surprising. . . Southern Planters Tell of Remarkable Results Light Enough for One Mu!s Strong y Enoushfor Two TIlllCS! 3055 "True Blue' Is the best cotton tool we' have."- James Spencek, Summit. Miss. "They are the greatest labor savers of any plow made. When the crop sets grassy, I can kill more grass, rain or shine, with the 'True Blue' than with any other plow. I don't think they can be beat." L. E. Lea, Brookhaven, Miss. ' - "They are very satisfactory. Their beams are short and you can make smaller turn rows and ditch banks. I have plows of yours that I have been usinsr for 17 or 13 years. I am using: over 100, and would not change for any other make." C H. Teal, Colfax, La. "The plow Is compact, the beam short, enabling: me to sret close to the fence without waste. We Southern farmers have small mules: many work hill lands, requiring: much turning, and we want short-beam plows. The 'True Blue' Is strongly made. Two yoke of oxen could not bend the beam! In cultivat ing:, one mule does the work, the draft being: wonderfully ligrht." Joshua Muixioah, Wesson, Miss. "Good-bye to the "Stock" or "Scooter" ' V rnan can do double the amount of work with my Middle-Breaker that he nan with a. little Stock or Scooter. You will pay out more in a year for i breakage on a Stock than the entire cost of a True Blue." ; Used from Bedding the Land to Laying fay the Crop Use It In the spring: for splitting out rows that had the cotton stalks In the year before. Use it later in cultivation. It scrapes the grass off and cultivates between tne rows, it s strong: enough for breaking ligrht enougrh tor cultivating. Order from Your Dealer or Write for Free "True Blue" Books nnInf CI7PP i f The True'Blue" Books tell the story of Blount's "Trr.e Blue Middle-Breaker. Tells rUHl Sj a Ifcl- . - many different kinds of work it will do and how It onickly pars for itaeifc. Filled with letters from Cotton and Corn Planters who -- ar.d it a labor saver and money maker. Rl OIIMT PI nW IVflDKQ riAnt 1432. FVf AMQVII I P" IMn jf ' -&wV, "-..1 Sold, by Ieadine Implement Dealers at a Moderate rice in Every Section of the a"fW
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