The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-07-07
IN IMPROTED PLOUGH FOR THE
GARDEN AND RICE FIELD.

The introduction of improved implements
| into the South Is as important an element In
developing Southern resources as would be
| the systematizing OF our miserably demoral-
lied labor. The scarcity and inefficiency OF
| labor becomes less perceptible rs improved
tools are substituted for muscle.
COL ID. Wyatt Aiken, in the April number ol
the Rural Carolinian, says: 1--WE have seen no
better instrument or this description than the
garden plough, manufactured by Messrs. Mar
shall & IIord of Addison, Ohio. 1t il light
plough-stock, with flat beam, two and q half
feet long In this beam is an eighteen inch
slot; in this slot works u light wheel, thirty
Inches In diameter, having It's axle at the point
Of the beam. The front end OF the plongh-han-
dies Is rs near the axle OF the wheel as posi-
BILE. The point OF the plough-Shovcl resting on
the surface Of the ground, the beam OF the
plough is about level. The plonghman, apply
Ing sufficient force 10 sink the shovel into the
ground, say three inches, propels the plough
with the same ease as If he stood in front OF
the plough and used lever fifteen inches long
to drag the plough after him, the lever being
the radius OF the wheel"
This plongh needs no horse to draw 1t, but
is easily worked by hand. BY lis nae one
man or boy will, in one day, do more work
and in better manner than five men can do
with the hoe. This pl0ngh Is simple In struc-
lllre and is sold at q price within the reach Of
every one cllltivating only an ordinary Kitchen
garden. 1t is q rice plnnter-endorsed by
every practical gardner and farmer who has
tested IL; has been awarded the first premium
at every fair, State or county, where exhibited.
Colonel G. c. LaDgdon, agricultural editor of
the Mobile Register, says: "Thc saving OF
labor, In these times, is with lis most impor-
tant consideration, and we really think that 10
this end this plough is good thing, deserving
place In every garden, rice and cotton field
In the South.'
DR.. J. Cragin, an Influential hortcnturist In
communication TO The Mobile Tribune, says:
ut Is simple as q wheelbarr0w, and child
may propel 1t. II only requires an exalniDa-
tlOn 10 be approved; and once tested, II will
be considered an Indispensable article for The
garden or the farm, rice and cotton field"
We would not say so much about this plough
in this place bnt from the fact that II has lately
caused great sensation in Charleston, where
1t was o2 exhibition. 1t was then declared
by numerous experienced and successful rice
planters 10 be destined to work complete
revolution In the culture of rice, rs it would
enable the planters to dispense with at least
one-half the number of mules now required.
Mr.. p P. Toae, OF that city, hns bought the
patent right for South Carolina and Florida,
and Will proceed at once to manufacture the
ploughs, and expects 10 be able to supply or
tiers in about two months. SO great was the
satisfaction of the rice planters with the trials
which they witnessed, that Mr.. Toale already
has orders for nearly one hundred plonghs.
Ii is scarcely necessary 10 add that Mr..
Toae is the enterprlslng manufacturer OF