The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-04-17
RICHMOND MANUFACTURES,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a. knight.

MISUNDERSTANDING nuiRh1
Most branches of human industry are
constantly being relieved Of their irksome-
ness by the invention of labor-savipg ma
chinery. Seventy-fve years ago, to be as .
busy as mailer was to be the busiest man
alive. because nail had to be hammered
out at single heat, and this required that ,
good many blows should be delivered in
a minute. But now boy will sit by his
machine, reading a book which he may
hold in his unoccupied hand, and turn out
hundred nails minute, each one better
than could be hammered out by the most
expert nail-maker in trying thousand
times. Agriculture differs, however, from
manufactures in not being capable OF abso-
lutely indefinite expansion in the applica-
ton of the mechanical powers to produc-
ton. The most that can be done in the
way of agricultural improvements IS to
get better implement than has been before
used, and one that will do greater amount
: of work with less muscle and backache,
and at the same time insure better qltataty
of work. A pillow that turns the best fur
row with the least amount of mule power;
that requires little effort to guide it, and is
: free from choking; that combines strength
with durability and lightness of structure,
i and leaves the soil in the best condition to
e receive crop when plowed, is the one
: which every farmer wants, and will have,
Q if he consuts interest and economy IN
husbandry. And what is true OF plows
I. is equally true of every other agricultural
o implement, from the simplest rake and
n hoe up to the Watt pillow and Excelsior
y, mower. ~ H
OF MEssRs. WATT & KNIGHT, whose
ID place of business is at No. 1852 Franklin
IN street. are the manufacturers of plows,
N harrows, coulters, cultivators, sets OF Will
Ii aetrees, iron and wood,) cotton scrapers,
and all other implements for cultivating the
"a soil. They also keep on hand all kinds OF
in agricultural machinery and implements IN
w general use, with reapers and mowers, or
lat which they make liberal discount to mer
an chants and wholesale dealers. Their grea
lily specially, however, is plows, harrows. ant
AN cultivators, of which they manufacture
thy very large variety. They make no less thai
ac- twenty-one different kinds of plows, as vii
me be seen from their price list, and all of ther
loi- combine, more or less, the general primo
Au- pies which have been secured by letter
10" patent to Mr.. Watt, the senior partner
10" the firm. This gentleman is not only a
res enthusiast on plows, but has studied the
Snl- structure with reference to mathematic
uch principles and the true law of mechanic
way forces. He took out his first patent for I'll
ON Watt plow in 1912, and has made consta
the improvements on it since, the last renew
ith- to his final improvement bearing date 1856
act, This pillow was reported by the Board
s"g Trustees of the Agricultural College
my Pennsylvania for 1860, as having stood t
'uo, best trial test, in total excellence, OF al
'inS' pillow upon the grounds, with thirty-tv
lary other plows contesting for the supremac.
lhto and this result was obtained without an
:. one being present from the ESTABLISHING
lills of the manufacturers to handle the plo'
who :. hor;ro, hoan cant on with directions he
ust' to use it, and for the committee to hane
hlhs it for themselves. In its pulverizing po
let er, its non-liability to choke, and its ira
neos ~ covering capacity, it stood the best test
toi any pillow upon the field, according to
any 1y report of the committee while, in gene
We excellence, it stood "No. 1" on the Ii
lit of ,l''' g. .,a1, ooh;ouor,,
=, for Richmond pillow, which b
= only sought a market in the South a
y. " " Southwest, without challenging comp'
al, ton in Northern husbandry. Peace HI
:, H., her victories no less renowned than tn
-: of war; and the inventor of the fin
- plow that can be brought into the field
~ 10 beautify and make productive the earth
greater benefactor to his race than
i'''a'i who inyents the heaviest ordnance or
most destructive war-missiles to pillow
with ruin. This is as true now as it '
when the world accorded the higher 81
to Cipcinnatus as cultivator of the
> nv with the arts of peace, than as desols
'"'''. of the earth with the arts of war.
,'ano In visiting the establishment of Mes
.bo Watt & Knight yesterday, we met gen
~ man from the North, who, when he CT
to the State ayear ago to permanently
W. cate as farmer, brought with him sup
of Northern plows, thinking that n
yc could be found of any comparative v;
H. here. Having seen the operation OF
,na Watt pillow used by his neighbors,
: - found the Northern ones entirely unsu
80 to the soils of Virginia, he visited R
30 mond yesterday to get set of plows f
the establishment of Messrs. w. &
= and was in the act of selecting them "
we went there to take such notes as
CT ~ wanted in the preparation of this ar
:. ~ for our paper. We mention this inci'
{ 49, as verifying what we have repeatedly
: to Northern immigrants about leaving
caoo agricultural implements behind them,
dn nc supplying themselves with such as '
suited to the soils here. The plows mi
= A. featured by Messrs. Watt 4 Knight
III WHY "a of