Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1850-10-30
NUMBER -.
Benefits OF Agricultural E1s,ioi-
lions.

Nhy j il that tanners VII rut, as
ooi,. lend 'he.f ait - advance taeir craft
Nothing Is more difficult than 10 ge, up
good aIfcuitara, exhibition. and no set Of
men arc more hen Fitted by fairs than far
mcrs NJ such difficulty occurs with me.
chanics: every manufactures IS anxious ~
exhibit MS wares. and u see those Of
others: the farmer alone shows apathy on
this subject. and still it is impossible for
any farmer u visit fair without being
able to heneti, by seeing the resu,, of tn.
labors Of others. lfno other inducemen,
could be offered. the usual trial o! plows
alone should be sufficient. At every such
:rial 'ha ;.,s,T- -.,ah,.s send th-ir socci.
mems. ana by the aid of an instrument
called dynamometer. the Judges are en-
ablcd to ascertain what p!ow requires th.
least power TO perform best, and the diff
ference in the amount Of power required
by different piows. intended to perform
the same class OF work. is often twenty
pei cent Now let us suppose that far
mer has fifty acres to plow, at an average
cost of three dollars per acre. and this Is
a low estimate. the whole cost would bc
$50 and if the best plow were used, he
would save $50 the first year, being many
times the cost Of the new plow, and still
we find farmers using plows Of kinds
which have been condemned for many
years rather than spend small sum 10
visit fair and ouy a hew plow. The
same facts exist as to cuiiivators and other
improved tools.-l'he following article.
from the Editor Of the Tribune. has gone
the rounds OF the agricultural press, bat
still we think II worthy place in our
columns:
There canno, he less than two or three
hundred different kinds of agricultural
implements on exhibition here-horse-
rakcs. culivators. straw-cutters, sub soil
and all other plows, bee-hives. water
wheels. horsepower Saw. &c. | consider
4 this altogether the most important, feature
! of the far. \ great OK may be reared bv
a greater fool: but no man who ever work
ed year at farming can spend day
among these implements and inventions
without being stimulated to think The
great end of all such exhibitions is an i'm
provement of the breed of farmers-of
men. Now the man who has been skim
ming over hundred acres Of land for tho
last twenty or thirty years. piowing 6
inches deep, manuring with his good
wishes, aud growing fifteen or twenty
bushels of corn to the acre. cannot spend
a day IN one OF tne 1alr measures without
being startled and ashamed. These sub
soil plows. one Of which. properly ussd,
would dnubl. his usual product Of cofu
and vegetables. and on dry seasons treble
it--thcse straw cutters, with one Of which
his scanty crop OF hay might have been
made by the aid Of straw. &c. to winter
his stock bountifuly-,he cuiivaior seed
planters. horse rases, and o.her labor
saving instruments, must set him thinking
What sort Of crops do these farmers OBJ
tain who use the Implements! Who max Q
the most by farming-the fifteen or the
fifty bushel crongrowers! What sort of
farmers is it who are able TO buy land i,
wher any is for sale low for cash! What
sort of farmers leave land in condition to
sell advantageously! These questions
arise Spontaneous in the simplest minds,
and they will be answered. | don't be-
lieve a farmer can attend three successive
fairs and not resolve TO farm better through
his life afterwards. - Working Farmer.