The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-22
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From Coleman's Rural World.
Agricultural Implements.

While the State Fair of Illinois was being
held at Centralia, about fifteen years ago by
the way, one of the most successful fairs,
except financially, ever held in that state
there was placed at that time, in juxtaposi-
ton with some of Deere ~ Co.'S and other
fine clipper aud breaking plows, one old
wooden mold-board, iron shod- breaking
plow-such as had been in use in that sec
ton of the State not many years before
Everybody marked the contrast with aston
ishment-and a revolution was the result.
1t is not over twenty-five years since the
general introduction of the doubIe-shoFei-
pillow, for the cultivation OF corn. Inc GU
custom was to compel one morse 70 ufaS a
ttro-borss diamond-plOw through the corn
(which hardly ever secured in nice mellow
soiJ and thus cultivate = this staple. SlHce
that time there has been wonoerfuI I'M
provement in all kinds OF walking anu
riding cultivators, horse-hoes, dc.
Thirty years ago, many old fogy farmers
cut their few acres of wheat rye or oats,
with hand-sickle, very similar to that useu
In the fields OF BoaZ. The cradle was mar
-veloas Improvement apon this old hand pro-
cess. Now look at the Nanny, KIRBY,
Buckeye, World, or any ofthe hundred other
good reapers and mowers or headers and
harVesters. which enable man 10 cut ana
shock or stack from ten TO twenty acres of
grain per day-and so it is with threshers
and all other farm machinery. which 1t Is
not necessary. for our present purpose mere.
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bushel to harvest an acre of wheat as when
we used TO cradle-Or 10 thresh it with the
machine as when we used the fail =! livery
observer cannot fail to have noticed now
largely horse p0Uer has been substituted Iof
man DJJ~sf, and iuasmuch az man ~ the SUI
Derior animal Of the two, and consequently
worth more; and inasmuch as his labor Is
more valuable than that Of the horse-so
much is farming made easier Tor man, anu
the drugcTy put upon the inferior animal.
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this time. viz: 1 he ease with which, by
horse power, larger fields can De cultivated,
and tire better chance there Is under tDfdr0f-
able conditions 70 secure the crop. Suppo-
sing man has forty acres of wheat all
.Oyu within TWO or three days, ana OIL
course ali ripe about the same time; and he
shall 90 in with TWO Graders, TWO rahers ana
binders and one man to set up five hands
in ali these Will cut, rake, bind and set up,
four or five acres per day I'VE are now
speaking of ordinary hands)-under these
circumstances it viii take from eight 10 ten
working days to secure all OF TINS heid nan
OF the grain viii. very likely, be oyer.riPe'
and shell out more or less; but supposlIg
day or two of rainy weather intervene NDy
no means a rare occurrence)-py no" Lhuch
will the loss be augmented!
Again, we have made no calculations lot
the loss of days that not only the wheat or
other grain about TO be harvested Is exposed
to- or actually lost; but other crops suffer,
either by being ripe for the harvest or Tor
Iustrate, in a measure, the value ofimproyed
machinery on the farm.
What " nope TO accomplish by these re-
marks Is, not so much to wake up some OF
our farmers at the North and West, as those
of the South. Supposing that IN the Guilt
walton of cotton, sugar or corn, at tne south
a man should start out into the held win
good two-horse riding cultivator, having a
good, large, white umbrella spread over his
head, and a good team of mules hitchcd be
fore-could he not labor under Southern
skies? Why, he could do good days work
by laboring until about ten IN the forenoon,
and from three to about six O'Clock in the
afternoon. A. an instance of the revolution
which superior farm machinery is likely to
work, we give the following authentic incl
dent: There is in Louisiana, native grass
often growing to the heigth of thirty incnes,
which is death to crops and very marc TO
kill. a planter put IN a ro!iihS -CouIIeI
Deere pillow, completely inVertlng the soo
and turning the grass so clean and deep that
it could never see daylight. The fame OF
this blowing so spread, that planters came
twenty five miles just to see this plow work.