Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-02

style Of agricultural Implements 10
general use years ago when he was
a boy, does at least twice the
amount of work that be ought 10
do, and does il through the hard
est kind Of labor. Il is al By main
strength; and, were he suddenly 70
throw his old implements aside aud
FL their places with articles Of the
| latest and most approved styles, he
would scarcely believe his own
senses; for, comparatively speak
I ing, the drucgery Of the farm would
have changed 70 the merest child's
play. Think of the man who now
trudgos after the plough from NOR
ming TIL night cuitiVatilg BIS
grounds by driving abont over
them in his carriage, as it were,
more aiicr the manner Of pleasure
seeker than laborerl
But, says one, the child must
crawl before it can walk. True
enough. We know that all farm
ers are not exactly prepared, just
now, to buy fine eultivators, har-
vesteTs and the like, and If they
were their lands are not all ready
to receive them, yet this is no
reason why we should neglect the
simpler implements in general use.
Our ploughs are seldom what they
might be and our hoes, even-have
you ever thought Of themg Do
you still cover your corn with the
old-iashioned, heavy broad boeg
Don't deny it, or don't excuse your
self by saying it is good enough for
the power attached to the handle.
1t may be good enough for him
but his using it is not good enough
for you. Net many days ago, in
the course OF our rambles over the
country, We came upon plantation
where the people were putting IN
corn, and they were doing il Just
asrwe tad seen Il done thirty years
ago. The land mad been put in
ttllerable order, and now a man
was marking OF the rows with an
oid-fashioned cast turn-plough.
Following him came woman drop
ping the corn by hand, then came
three covorers with old-fashioned
broad hoes. The coverers all
worked on the same row, each do
ing a third of il and turning, and
the way they brought their hoes
down was like killing snakesl
To have told them Of n better
method would have been a waste Of
words, Of course, but we will ven
ture 20 assert that with a good
pronged hoe We could have covered
more corn in the same time than
the three were covering, doing it
better and with far less labor than
il was necessary for one to per-
form.
Have you ever tried a pronged
hoe on your placer If not, get ono
the first time you 60 10 town.
You'll always thank Us for this ad-
vice if you follow it, for you will
find the pronged hoe one of the
things in the hoe line you
ever owned It's good for almost
everything, and the case with
which ono can draw it though the
soil renders its use an actual pleas
ure.
The pronged hoe generally goes
by that namo at the implement
stores. 1t has four steel prongs,
which, if straightened out, would
mako it u four-pronged pitehfork,
only the prongs would be a little
too fiat. Cost from one dollar TO
one dollar and fifty cents.
There is another little imple-
ment in the hoe line that ought 10
be in moro general use among
Southern gardeners at least-it is
usually called a garden cultivator,
thougl in some localities It is
known as a dOg-tongue. In shape
it is somewhat like a large dogs
tongue, though rather more point
ed and wider and heavier. Ii is
mounted upon handle, hoe-fash-
ion, and the end of the blade oppo.
site the point, widens out little
and thins down to an edge, making
a kind Of miniature grub hoe.
Length of entire blade, about ten
inches; breadth at the widest point
about two-and-a-haiL
With this implement one can
tear up ground with a degree of
that is delightful TO behold
we can spade more ground with
il and do it better than three men
can spade it with three spades on
the old plan. And, then, when it
comes TO ploughing the onion beds,
and the like, nothing could be bet
ter. Cost, from seventy-fve cents
10 one dollar.