Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-09-08
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The DRILL PLow-ITs VALUE TO THE RICE
PLANTER. This labor saving machine was first
broug into it is believed, by the Scotch farm
ers, short time previous to the year 1910. At that
time it was quite complicated in its construction, and
required much care and Judgment in It's management
Since then it has been variously improved and SIM
plifed. and is used with great economy and sue
cess by many of the largest wheat.growers in this
country, and will doubtless soon be used with very
decided advantages by the cotton planter To the
rice planter it is invaluable The object of it is TO
quickly several drills perfectly true and parallel
with each other, and deposit the seed in any required
quantity, at the same time. In appearance, this
pillow is similar TO low light cart, having, for rice,
four hollow castron tubes set twelve inches apart,
extending from the axle to the ground these
tubes each armed at the bottom with a piece OF
sharp STEEL made in the shape of boot the point or
toe of which is made to enter the earth just deep
enough to form small furrow or drill The ma
chine is drawn by or two horses and ii runs
forward crank is put in motion, which, by an in
genIous contrvance, pushes or conveys the seed from
large EoX the top into the IRON tubes, and through
them down to the drills. In an instant the crank
may lie put in out of gear, and the supply OF seed
! let shut off. The faster the horses walk the
more rapidly the seed is sown, and evenly and
regularly both as to position and quantity, that il
would be impossible to have the work done better
even as well, by hand labor alone.
: One pillow, with one horse mule, driven by an
active pIowman, will plant from ten to fifteen acres
day; and it's cost will not exceed $40, delivered in
New Orleans This sum would be saved in labor tc
the planter the first ten days of it's work. while the
CROP owing to the efficiency and regularity of the
planting would be increased in value from five to ten
per cent Scientific american.
SERMON TO THE CLERGY.-The Evangelist pres
byterian) administers sharp rebuke to those clergy
men who abandon their churches, in New York city
al this season of the year,-especIaly when dead
! ly disease is sending so many daily their graves
The Editor says:
1.-THE usual spectacle of closed churches has been
one of the incidents of the hot weather and the sick
y season, this year heretofore. 1t cannot be de-
MED that there is appearance of incongruity ir
this fact occurring al time when the ravages O
tie Destroyer are everywhere turning the thoughts
of the living to the claims and solaces of that re
gon of which our churches are both the symbols
and the dispensers. At time when dangers are
more than ordinarily life, and the number of death
beds, with their fears and deep wants, multi
piled, and when, if ever, men disposed to lister
10 the words of life, there seems something like
hardship in the custom which banishes at al
the Christian pastors of the city from their charges
All that can be said of the necessity of recreation
OF thin audiences, and the convenience of period
cal ntermsson in the services of the churches hard
ly dminishes the evil which must often grow out o
the absence of all spiritual advisers at the
healthfuI and perilous season of all the year. Th
suffering and dying, who need more than all the at
tentions of the physician, the words of comfort tina
the pastor can alone give, hardly regard this
nuai hegira as thing quite ght and come y ant
the exclusion of those who are well from all accus
toned religious service is not agreeable to say tn
least"