St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-08-20
Improved Agricultural Tools.
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have been for three years using the cutiva-
tor made by Peoria Plow Company, Peoria,
illinois, and find it, without doubt, the best
tool to cultivate com or cotton l have ever
seen, and no man who will purchase one will
ever regret it. 1t will take day or 80 to learn
how to use it, as it is awkward to new hand;
seven acres per day for fOur-feet cotton rows is
a good days work in plowing corn. Peas can
be cropped by very simple arrangement at
tached to the cultivator. John Deere & Co.,
Moline, Illinois, make a cultivator with cotton
Ilows as attachments. Parlin & Orendorf,
Canton, Illinois, also make good cultlvator, to
rs a good labor-saver. II your farmers will
send them postal card, they will send a des-
crlPtlye catalogue with pricc-list. 1t seems
long since introduced into the whole South
as am satisfied one man and two horses can
80 as much work as two men and two horses
never knew how far the South was behind
the age i'll labor-saving tools until three years
ago, when had an oppo tunty of inspecting
entirely changed. I once pulled up my cotton
stalks, raked them up with two horses
into piles, then burned them. Now use a two
of cotton or corn stalks; 1 use three-horse
turning plOws cutting sixteen or eighteen
inches, doing three acres per day; use three
horse harrows to pulverize my land lay off
my corn rows with marker, and plant twelve
acres per day with twO-horse corn planter,
and cultivate forty to fifty acres OF corn to the
seventy-two tooth castor tooth harrow, which
run over my corn each week until six inches
high, doing twenty acres per day. This is a
nice tool, and cultivates young corn nicely.
II your readers will purchase these tools, I
am satisfied they will be very well pleased.
These are the tools that enable the Western
Eye cents per bushel. The time is past when a
farmer can afford to use nan-pOwer, where he
can make mule or horse do the work better
and am satisfied that any farmer who will
use these tools can double his working force,
or do twice as much with them as with present
tools. So, brother farmers, write for cata-
I0gue, and learn what these men have to sell.
There is another great advantage in using
three-horse power plows, and that is in plowing
rough ground, covered with large weeds |
have turned under weeds six feet high, and
be turned under SO deep that they will not
sprOut before the corn is laid by. These plOws
for breaking broadcast. But | suppose all
planters will soon want tOimake their own corn
and bacon, as cotton will not bring enough this
fall to purchase them.
Is there any reason why Southern planters
cannot raise their own corn, meat. hay, mules,
horses, sheep and cattle! Certainly Bermuda
grass will grow, if nothing else will, and | sup
bushel Of japan clover seeda II any OF your
readers have any, please let me know:
will have this year forty acres OF corn to
each hand, and hay and hogs to do me- I hope
to make 1000 bushels of corn per hand. I now
get seventy cents per bushel for corn. and 1t
takes ten pounds OF cotton to purchase one
bushel Of corn, or in other words, get $4,000
pounds of lint cotton for the labor of one man
six months, equal to forty bales Of cotton OF
four hundred pounds each. Which pays the
best, corn or cotton 7
A few days since, saw in a Western paper
that farmer had sold seventy five hogs OF his
own raising, for 1887, or about as much as three
men can make raising cotton. One man in
Iowa raised forty acres of corn, sixty bushels
to the acre, or 2.AOO bushels, which sold for
thirty cents, netting him S72O. Is there man
f!,a Rr,yrf xrItOo 6n paiS ffnr
And yet it only requires six months to raise
and gather a crop of corn, which leaves plenty
of time to feed hogs, cattle, and to repair the
farm. Cotton planting requires twelve months
of constant hard work, leaving no time for
any improvement or social pleasure; and then
this one crop dwarfs mans intellect-r0bs him
of all comfort or pleasure.
J. II. MOORE.
Oakley, Arkansas Co., Ark.