Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-16

NO. 4.

100. NO. Il.
| spring. The thoughtful farmer can find
very general application of the facts here
intended to be elucidated in his practice at
| at this season, and in the interval which will
occur before his work is stopped by frost and
snow he will lose no opportunity of assist
ing the operations of nature by his own in
telligent labor.-New York Times.
FARMERS WANT AND NEED.-We doubt
not the farmers want much, and need much
more. They want their burdens lightened,
both as to direct and indirect taxes. They
need better reward for their labor and for
their products. They want no monopolies
fostered by the State and National Govern
ments They need no increase of officers or
| salaries. They want fewer offices and lower
salaries in many of the fat offices. They
need less and want better legislation. They
| need men in Office whose aim is not money
making, but serve for the good of the peo-
pie. They want men who will not seek Of
+, flee SO constantly, but who will wait till
asked to take Office by those to be served.
They need more systematic, industrious,
| energetic labor, and want no more idle heart,
heads and hands in any department of bus
mess. They need less extravaganza in gov
ernment and among individuals, and want
more good common-sense economy, and the
people educated to the industries and neces-
sites Of the times. They need govern
ment to do the greatest good for the greatest
number Of her people, and they want the
people to feel proud of that government
Ru'a. Sun.
ANOTHER STEAM PLow.-A Mr.. Benson,
Of the Monumental Iron Works, Baltimore,
has invented steam ploW and is on his way
with it to a farm that lie owns in Buena
Vista County, Iowa. Mr. Benson does not
use ordinary ploWs, but has substituted a
revolving horizontal shaft, armed with a
series of sharp blades, that dig up the ground
and thoroughly pulyerizeit. TO complete
the work a rake with steel teeth moves close
behind this powerful cutter, and immediately
above it is another horizontal shaft, armed
with steel spikes or springs, that pass be-
tween the teeth Of the rake at every revolr-
ton. This is the whole of the plowing apa-
ratus. The rest OF the machine does moth
ing except furnish the motive power. 1t
consists of a neat little engine, mounted on
traction wheels, and the necessary gearing
for moving the wheels and keeping the two
shafts already mentioned in motion. The
plow is ten feet wide, and will pulverise
strip of ground of equal width as it moves
forward. 1t can be rum at the rate, of two
mules an hour, but farmer would probably
prefer the rate upon which Mr.. Benson has
based his calculations, namely, one mile per
hour AT this rate it will plow from ten to
fifteen acres per day. The ground will need
no narrowing or stirring after the machine
has passed over it.
A FERTILE SoIL.-Even now, the soil Of
Palestine, after the waste and exhaustion Of
four thousand years, is of surprising fertil-
ity. DR.. Robinson, in his tour, found the '5ill
country of Gallilee yielding crops which il.di-
cate productiyeness equal to all that jose
phus has said of it. The industrial settle
ment lately and successfully begun near the
pools of Solomon, south of Bethlehem, re
port that they raise two crops in year.
Their grapes almost rival the clusters of Esh-
col, single vine having one hundred
punches of grapes, each three feet long, and
each grape three and half inches in circunl-
ference. They have Indian corn eleven
feet high, water melons twenty, thirty, forty