The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-24
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4 Correspondence Mobile Register
Why is it that our Southern farmers tax
80 little interest in improved farming i'm
plements for the saving of labor? Is it be
cause they detest patented articles. or is i
because Gather" and grandfather useC
their present style of implements, and tina
they are good enough for them7
We are living in progressive age, ana
he that don't take advantage of the improve
ments is sure not TO succeed. Fashion.
amounting to extravaganza have increased
/ rapidly all over our land-have our pro
auctions increased with them l think not
for | see that the farmers here are pursuing
that same old course they pursued forty
yearsago / see no improvement in farming
| implements; no planter, no cotton scraperi
/ no double shovels or cultivatOrS, but all APP
pear to plod on after the style OF their faith
ers. What would you think of Il mechanic
starting to work on fine job with Indifferent
! tools? Why you would say he was bound
to make a flilure-as surely he would. So
| it is equally as important that the farmer to
be successful should have good tool-, and il
he can get such as will do more and better
work in the same length of time, why Il
point has been gained
Implements are now within the reach of
every farmer, that will enable him to do
better work and three times as much of it
cess. Oh say many, 1--WE can't use
those things-Our lands are too rough"
Well, | do know that there are large bodies
of Lands in Mississippi and Alabama that can
be worked by them, and nearly every plan
tation has more or less lands upon which
they can be used to great advantage. / am
aware that the colored race are invariably
opposed to anything new until they see its
utility. In West Tennessee nearly every
freedman now has his cotton planter and
seraper. How many can you find in South
Alabama? After a residence here of thirty
three. years | moved TO West Tennessee.
where | found 4 large white population who
We're workingmen, and found among them
many la or-saving implements, which as
sisted very much in the cultivating of their
crops. IN Illinois / have seen the first
plOughing | have ever seen done by riding
ploughs, and at the rate of eight acres per
day; and the ploughman, seated in a nice
spring seat, with sQl-shade over his head
to protect him from the suns rays. \ few
years since, in Illinois, man was content
1t he cultivated % acres while now, BOYS,
old men and crlpples can manage 40 to 30
acres easily, while good, able bodied men
cannot do on less than cue hundred acres,
in corn, wheat, oats and grass. From 2, 500
to 5000 bushels ofcorn per hand has been
raised i'll favorable seasons. Why is this?
IDcCduSC Hc III f6SIcu III SOOl, iii proved ldDOr-
saving implements.
Good implements must be patented in or
der to introduce them thoroughly and
cheaply; for what body of capitalists are
going to invest their capital in the manu-
facture of an article unless it is protcctedby
patent? Why, they would be throwing
their capital away in doing so, therefore all
good implements are patented, which should
be no objection to them.
some say, ''we have been humbugged so
much we are afraid to buy" To such /
would say, take trip to Illinois, and 90
into the farmers barn yard, where can be
seen implements that cost him hundreds and
thousands of dollars, and yet he keeps on
buying everything that will save labor, and
when he goes to town or to fairs, he scruti-
nizes closely every new labor-saving nipple
ment, and it has paid him well to be so at
tentiye to his interests. How is the case
with our farmers? am sorry to say many
of them, in coming TO town, will pass by
SUCH things without even noticing them.
No wonder the production of the country
per hand has not been increased 1t is high
time we were waking up. Our acres should
be increased, and better worked And
should John get plough that will do more
and better work, dun't abuse him for doing
so, but rather commend him for it,
| am thankful my sons have found bet
ter and easier way to make their crops than
did at their age.
MADISON Co, Tenn. s.