The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-10-28
= Agricultural MACHINERY,

The farmers of our eastern States, compell.
ed to till rocky and uneven lands, andEused
to small holdings do not know, by expert
ence, all of the changes, which, improved
machinery has wrought in agricultural op-
erations on the great western, prairies.-
There machines do Tie Tabor Of men to
such a, degree, that the, : farmers heaviest
tolls are Iightened, and one man is, enabled,
to achieve, with ease, the work ofo haf9la
dozen. tt.ll fr;,;sas7i a9hius oil 'adj wc
o7 We saw recentlyra cornfeld of oneahuns,
dred and sixty acresy on theGraRd Prairie,
in the blowing, planting and coltiFati6h'of
which no man walked a step % AZ rotary
spader drawn by four horses and driven BY
man, upon the box, ,plowed the field to- q
uniform depth, Of eight inches, and gave
thorough ,tith that it was not Inecessaryto
use qt the harrow att alb acorn-planter
drawn by two horses, and drivenby man
upon the box, next planted the seedaigA
cultivator drawn by two mules, one Walk
ing on each side of the knee-higIf corn, and
driven by man upon the box, completed
the culture of a row at a single operation !;
and in the tool lay another machine,
alsoto be drawn by, horses, which win cut
down the corn 5when,it is ripe and lay it, In
hand But it is expected that byaneXt
year this machine wilhbe so improved as
Ito gather up the corn also. 'E1' Ton us9 s22Gi
'7a When it is remembered that the farmer
who follows common plow or cultiyator
during long SUMMERS day, performs q
march of from ten TO fourteen miles, it will
be seen what boonis themaehinery whic
relieves him from this toll. And when we,
remember how scarce were men during the
last four years in the West, Jweg shalb see
that but for such labor-saving implements
our vast crops of cereals could neitherhave
| been planted gathered l''a9s9Ig9i 81 q
The farm of which the eornfeld we speak
OF was, q part, has seven hundred acres in a
single field of imothy3l, OF what use would
this be if it had to be cut by hand =? But
half dozen harvesting machines sufliced
to cut it all, in good otime, and will do,
without groaning, the work Of half a regi-
ment Of men ! patent horse-rakes gatherit
up and two hayppresses upon the place to
compress it into bales fit for shipping
Seventeen and a half milesao board fence
enclose little more than half Of this farm,
which has, as a part of its furniture, comfor-
table she DIS for ten thousand sheep, a corn
crib, rat-proof, holding fifteen thousand
bushels Of corn, and extensive stabling for
horses. iat a36i 10 i2ofg 20 nfotl 2glqq93
What machinery has donefor, the West
it will do for the South, now that afreeqla+
Dor is substituted for that of slaves. There
is no reason why thecotton and sugar fields
) of great part Of the South should not, be
titled by machinery, These fields are, in
louisiana, Mississippi and indeed in almost
the whole of The cotton and osugar, region,
level and devoid of rocks, and these are the
only conditions necessary to the successful
use of the most valuable farm machinery,
The slaves, Ignorant and careless because
they had no interest in the work, used on
Hly the clumsiest tools but in the hands, f
Intelligent freemen the rotary spader, or
the steam plow, or r,cqltiyatio9rs can be used
as we'll on the immense level bottom lands
Of Louisiana, where sugar is grown, as on
the prairies for corn and wheat. '''i'
Yankee ingenuity, too, will presently set
itself to work to devise ew7riimplenentsi
for the more economical and rapids prose-
cution ofsuch labor as cottonzpickingo and
cane-cuttipg. The next ten years will wit
ness al. immense revolution in the methods
ofcuhivating The great staples Of the South;
and the fruits of that change will be a
greatly increased production of cotton and
sugar by theahelp of free labor, and--4what
the use of machinery always brings withRit
such increased rewards for intelligent
labor as will prove even to the, most igno7
rant of the southern population the impor--
tance of schools and the pecuuiary value Of
education.-EN. Y. EUening PoSt.na 'Do 'ii2D