Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-28
He stretched his hard he looked afa
With eyes of old desire
saw nv home. a mellow star
EARI AND HOUSEHOLD.
Potato pIow.

The Mark Lane Express has the
following on one of the implements
exhibited before the Royal Agricultural
Society:
Corbett and Peele's pillow has sin
gle mold board, and has a revolving
disc composed of several teeth or tines,
which by simple attachment is fixed
to the handles Of the piow, and works
Just behind.the mold board, catching
the furrow as it is moved by the plow
and tearing ii III pieces. AS 1t is fixed
TO work at an angle to the mold board
and to the furrow, the potatoes are de-
posted Oh the surface of the pulverized
land, aud very few fall into the furrow
sole, where they would be covered by
the next ridge unless gathered. imme-
diately after the pillow, By this single
mold board two-thirds, or nearly all
the ridge, is turned over and broken
up on the mold moard side, and the
furrov sole left has scarcely a single
potato in it. The revolving disc, act
ing on tie whole furrow, at once pro-
duced a fne level and broad bed for
potatoes TO fall upon. .-..
This pillow was put to work upon
Regent potatoes, the tops of which
were ripe, aud made capital work. A
few potatoes were buried by the mold
thrown up by the disc, but there was
10 scratching at all for the gatherers,
and they could gather much more
rapidly than after the ordinary pillow
used in the district.
A great merit of this principle is that
it is adaptable to any ordinary pillow at
the cost of So. The pillow with rotary
disc is here shown as one implement,
but virtually the invention consists in
an apparatus TO be attached 20 pillow,
and forming part of it's fittings or fur
niture, like the share or the coulter,
but ONLY to be used for special pnr-
poses. 1t will, however, pulverize land
winter-plowed in ridges, or at the time
of blowing, most efficiently.
neutrality-suspicious. of seed and Til
iaseo
Mr.. E. Wheeler, Of Danton, Cook
county, Illinois, writes to the Prairie
Farmer:
with your permission, will give
nv experience with the Odessa wheat,
the past season. In one field five bush
els of wheat was sown on five acres of
corn stubble, which had not been
ploWed, but the seed was we'll put In
by two horse cultiyators; the yield was
one hundred and twenty bushels No. l
wheat.
In another field ten bushels Of wheat
was sown on ten acres of land that had
been cropped with fax the preceding
year and fall plowed The yield in
this field was two hundred and thirty
bushels No. / wheat. At the market
price of S125 per bushel, the crop
from the ten acres would bring $2S7. so.
Deducting seed, ten bushels, at ST. SO
per bushel, $15, leaves for use of land
and labor 1912. So Compare this re.
suit with a ten acre field of equally
good land Oh an adjoining farm sown
with common tea wheat.
Twenty bushels of wheat was sown,
and the yield was one hundred bushels
No. 2 wheat. At 81 bushel it would
amount to 800. Deducting seed
twenty bushels, at $1.25 bushel, S25
leaves for use of land and labor but
$75, and showing a balance in favor O.
the Odessa wheat of $3.50
The average yield per acre for She
more than two million acres OF whea
raised in Illinois, in 1872, was but thir
teen and two-tenths bushels.
The three principal causes OF thu
low average are First, defective till
ace. second. unfavorable season
third, poor seed, which maintain Il
the most important of the three. Per
haps it is too much to say that judi
cious selection of wheat would double
tbenwxxua wheat raised inthe state
IY44no1s.