Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-12-26
TO THE FARMERS OF THE
WESTERN COUNTRY.

Improvements in agriculture and in
agricultural implements are at all times
OF the first importance to our country
but particularly SO in these times fpres-
sure and distress.-If it be fact that
every dollar which we handle is first dug
out of the earth-ifit be fact that on tho
farming interest of our country, every
other department depcnds-thcn is every
individual deeply interested in promoting
This great and important object.
The subscriber has been for years en-
gagged in endeavoring to,make improve
ments in The implements of husbandry
and in the method of culture; and as the
Plough and the Harrow claim the pre-
eminence, he has spared neither time,
labor nor expense to bring them to what
he considers the highest state Of perfec-
ton.
His method Of cultivating is this-n
the earliest planting season, he runs his
harrow over the stocks, which tears them
down and cuts them to pieces with its
teeth, which are inclined and sharp as
kniie.-This done, he begins 10 break
Nh his ground, which after being again
narrowed, he proceeds to lay oil, (only
one way at the distance of45 or feet
his drohEer then moving along in the
furrow at common walk, drops, for
| hill OF corn, at eUery STEP he then runs
his harrow over the ground, with
| levelter attached TO the hinder part,
which mashes all the remaining clods
and leaves the soil completely puIyerised
and level as plank. The corn springs
up through the ground thus prepared and
grows rapidly. When it is nearly half
leg high, he runs his Log Plough on
each side of the row close TO the corn,
and having thinned it, leaving from two
10 three stalks in hill, he leaves it un-
til it grows to be knee high or little
more, he then finishes ploughing it and
lays it by.
In this way, and with half the labor
required in the common method, you
will raise one third more grain from tie
acre; and instead of exhausting your
land by repeated ploughing and hoeing,
this plan Of culture will improve it. The
The harrow is also well calculated for
preparing meadow ground. One of the
many advantages ct the log though is,
that it will run through the fullest
ground without choking, SO that man
can plough one third more with it in the
same time, that he can with any other
kind now in use. 1t is, however, unne-
cessary to eulogise on paper these inn
portant utensils, as they will fully de-
monstrate their utility when exhibited to
an enlightened and impartial public.
THOMAS PULLEN.
Dour5on county, Ky. SEPT. %.
N. B. The inventor has made appli-
cation for hatent.
We do hereby certify that we have
seen Thomas Pullen's newly invented
Log Plough in operation and are fully
convinced of its great utility to the farm
ing interest Of our country, especially in
the cultivation ofIndian corn.-NVe have
also observed his method Of cultivating
this invaluable grain and are satisfied
that it requires not half the labor neces-
sary in the common mode. We have
therefore no doubt but his newly invent
ed though and harrow will NEE, with the
appreciation and be adopted by every in
telligent farmer, who may have an OPP
portunity of Witnessing their great utili-
ty.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS,
GEORGE Z. MOORE.