Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-08-01

Superiority of American Ma
chimes. Fattening Poultry b.
Machinery, and Hatching Chick
ems by Steam Encubators
Chicken Life Diyested OF al
Romance. Is it Polite, is il
Right?
From our Regular Correspondent.
PARIS, July 18th, 1878.
An American looking aftel
the distinctions that exist be.
tween farming at home and il
this country, is apt to be i'm.
pressed with the superior con.
servatism Of this people-theil
unwillingness 10 change ole
habits and adopt new methods
of agriculture, however grea
and evident may be their ad.
yantages. From time immemo'
trial it has been the habit OF
French farmers, and of those of
the continent generally, to pre-
pare their land for cereal crops
by throwing it up into lands
Just nine feet wide. The aver
age height from the bottom of
lthe furrow to the highest ridge
in the middle of the land i:
eighteen inches. In districts
having a stiff impermeable clay
subsoil, and, in this country
where rains are frequent and a.
bundant, such plans Of surface
drainage may be Indispensable
but in grayelly or sandy sub
soil, which is as common here
as in America, these frequent
ditches are not only unnecessa-
Try but inconvenient; and yet
You viii find these narrow lands
and deep bitches every where
even upon the steep gravelly
hillsidcs. The French fields
thus corrugated have been the
theatre of many sore trials fol
the reaping and moving ma
chimes which during the past
few years have been introduced
from America. If the track is
crossways or diagonally across
the field, you can imagine the
strain to which the machine
would be subjected. If length
wise, it becomes nearly impossi-
bic for the cutter bar to conform
to the depressions, so as to make
the clean shave required by the
Economical French husband
man; for you must know that
the stubble left in an American
field would be looked upon as
insane wastefulness here. When
THE harvest has been taken off
there remains the bare earth,
and critical inspection will be
required to tell whether the
crop was rye, wheat or clover.
This necessity for close cutting
has rendered necessary some
notifications in the shape of
guards and cutter bars of Amer
lean machines. But, in spite Of
all these difficulties, and Of the
heavy duty exacted by the
French government, the sale Of
American mowers and reapers
is on the decided increase, and
is fast outstripping that of the
heavy clumsy machines made
in England and France. The
preference of the French for our
machines is evidently due to
/ their greater l;ghtness and the
superiority of their construction.
Reapers and mowers are more
fully represented in the Expo
sition than any other depart
ment of American industry.
Half the space of the U. 5. Ag-
ricultural Annex is devoted to
them, and to show that Ameri-
can manufacturers appreciate
this occasion, / will mention
the contents OF one platform,
for example, the Buckeye ma
chimes, which perhaps attract
most attention. They are sent
by the house Of G.. Aultman 81
Co., from Canton, Ohio. The
platform is about thirty feet
square and the most conspicu-
Gus machine on it is a portable
farm engine, of the shape Of
our city fire engines, and it is
frequently taken for one. Of
the hundreds Of engines here,
this one has come the longest
distance. 1t is in constant use
to give motion to a seli-binding
harvester. The latter always
draws a crowd. The process
of binding sheaves of straw
with wire is here seen for the
first time by thousands Of peo-
pie daily. -Four or five other
specimens of the Buckeye, toe
we'll known with you to need
description here, occupy the
balance of the space and arc
; operated by steam so that theil
, powers and adaptations can bt
; fully understood. The agent
! informs me that he has many
orders TO fill, not only in France
but also from Russia, Germany
: Belgium and other European
countries. Similar spaces arr
: occupied by other American
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