Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-12


1t will add to the vitality, the wealth, the
comfort OF tho corn grower, and be The for
tunate and welcome means of increasing corn,
as product, a thousand or more per cent,
over the present crop. Bat we will more than
assert, although every assertion is founded on
a fact as hard granite. In the State of
Ilhnois-and this will illustrate many other
STATES in the Union-this planter will save in
labor alone i'll one season, more than SIl4,-
600. The increase in the quantity of corn
would be immense. The average cost of corn
planting BY the present method aud our cal
culation Is made on reliable Gata--is nearly
one dollar and hall an acre. And thus in
good locality. By the use of the corn planter
the same work can be dore for ten cents an
acre "a reduction sufficiently apparent for
most men to perceive. Nor is this the Whole
story. The planting will be done in better
manner than by the hand This may be
gaIded a little ''fast," but it is faster in
respect to its truth. The thing can be demon
strated IN the field, as well as upon paper. One
great beauty aud marvel Of the machine is
this: 1t burrows, drops and cover the corn
all at once. and in hills regularly distanced.
The thing to use common but expressive
phrase, is ''as regular as clock work. BY
the rapidity and extraordinary regularity of
its operation the seed may be put into the
ground just at the right time, and thus a crop
insured from this circumstance alone that
otherwise would be impossible. All farmers
know the importance of Tlantng corn in the
mick of time, Tor upon it depends every
thing or nothing; and in extensive corn.re-
gions man and muscle labor is inadequate to
the required speed and at the same time,
proper manner OF planting We could give
columns OF facts and figures going to show the
wonderful merits OF this crowning machine.
We could prove that no farmer, il he consult
ed his interest, pecuniary and every other
way, could do without it. We could prove
that in view of source of natioual wealth.
the Quantity of corn could be increased almost
beyond llmif, and that TOO by very much less
labor than is now expended on a com para
lively small area OF land. We could prove
that the United States may raise corn for the
whole world, and have an abundance-all it
can use-for itself. We could prove that
every New England farmer that cultivates
corn could save his hundreds on labor, and
make his more than hundreds on the increased
quantity of corn. These and hundreds of
facts we could easily demonstrate. But it is
not necessary. There is the machine. Go and
see it, See what it can do, save, make coin.
See how neat, complete, simple and yet scien-
eltitic are its operations. See machine that
proposes to do a given labor not only great
deaI faster, but better than man.
We will only add at the present time, that
the proprietors, Messrs. Hartley & Co., at the
corner of Friend and Market streets, are pre-
pared to dispose OF rights for any given State,
Territory, locality, sc. As an investment we
regard it as one Of the most promising that
has been offered to the public for many years.
We have rot the slightest doubt but that
whoever takes hold OF it, and with ordinary
sagaclty, will reap fortune. 1t win sell, for
the very sufficient reason that corn growers
mast haze it. 1t would positively seem rldicu-
lous to us for moment to wallow along in the
slow, old fogy, expensive method of planting,
when this can be procured. The practical
question is, will the farmer expend OF dollar
and half in planting an acre, when he can
do it for ten cents? With these PREDATORY re-
marks we submit the accomp anying docu-
menf:-
10 The Editor of the Boston Bee GantIe-
men In reply to the numerous inc uiries in
regard to the American Com planters--adver~
tised by Hartley Cove would remark