Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-28
From the Tennessee Farmer and Mechanic.
Improved Implements.

Mr. EDITOR Yours Of the 4th was recciv-
ed to-day, and thank you for your polite at
tention. have written to know about the cot
ton harvester desiring to secure all the aid in
my power The mass of my brother planters
are too coy in regard to abor-saying mple-
ments. | have seen some thirty to fifty hands
with hoes raking up the manure in a COW lot
and with the same implement really loading
wagons. l have seen an experienced planter
blowing the earth two hands carting 1t some
one hundred feet for brick making. Whereas
in both cases, a horse scraper, OF one or two
horse size, would have done more work, and
paid for the implement at over ten dollars in
two or three days work valuing labor at only
forty cents per day, or ten dollars per month.
If can use the harvester " to gather three
TO five hundred pounds of cotton only, it viii
pay me WELL because | can employ all spare
time in preparing my land, whether by manure
or any other way, for the ensuing crop. If my
best hands now gather fair cotton, about three
hundred pounds on push,' and the harvester
will do so with ease, | will be content. The
great drawback on improvement, Is the time
absolutely required to make and gather a crop.
We may argue as we viii, the mass Of Us viii
plant to make all we can gather; and if so, we
are employed at cotton culture and gathering
from the first Of March TO the first of June
We are pushed to keep up necessary repairs,
without any clearing, or manure or pasture
making. Could we gather in three months,
we would have a month for manure making
Our country needs a stirring up IN tins mat
ter. IL is TO me truly astonishing though
have been a party and loOker-on for twenty
five years, that SO little advance has been msde
in inducing planters 10 benefit themselves, and
thus their country. | have labored much in
this matter and until my brethE.n really seem
10 feel that | am individually interested. Yet,
| arm not surprised, upon reflection, for It IS
difficult indeed 10 believe what | have seen.
Here is the difference in time and labor saved
from a change of implements for instance, /
have used some three grist mills, and thought
that the Straub MILL Of eighteen inches, was
the thing, when my friend, Willis F. Coleman
Of New Orleans, insisted that / should try his
undulating cam and Touring mill Formerly,
my miller was from eight 20 ten hours al least
grinding for the family, and very hard work for
four mules, harder work than a sixty horse gin
and four bales per day. With Colemau's mill,
six horses are ample, and attention Of over
seer-lour Will do, with light work and four
teen inch stone. Again, Nerves, Of Clinton,
Miss, viii make gin Of sixty saws that viii
turn out an article Of cotton, six bales per
day, equal TO the Northern stands st four
Yet these machines, costing us here less, are
not looked to.
And again, the Brinley Plows, from simpson
vile, by, if they do cost one TO two dollars
moro here are cheaper in wear, and then do
better work. have used the one aud two
horse pillow for two years. and speak adyisedly
have for myself as wel as 10 be able 10 BE-
more useful 10 others tried all implements
within my reach. ] have done 50 70 Eyor no
man or section. admit, would like that the
South would always make the best and sell the
cheapest. admit, love my own country
and my own people best yet, | hops | am
o en- 70 see what Is 70 my own interest