The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-01-25
MONEY IN FARMING,
improved Agricultural Implements In use
In GrecnviIle.
From the Green,file .Neu,.

! From the GreenttNe Netrs
Is: +. Perry, Jr., son of Ex. Governor
Is; r. Perry, is engaged in farming on q
place two miles from this city. lie be,
gan on 1t nine years ago at the age of six.
Teen, and has already taken rank as one
OF the leading agriculturaIsts of this
section, so that at a time Of life when
most men are just beginning TO establish
themselves he has already achieved &
thorough success. The name of 'I,ep
Perry" in this country is connected in
all minds with good farming and finan.
clal stability. His credit is practically
Unlimited here, and his use of any agri.
cultural method or means is generally
accepted as the highest recommendation
OF It by his fellow farmers.
hr. Perry is a comparatively recent
convert to the use of improved agricui-
lural machinery, and an enthusiastic be.
never IN 1t, and reporter for the .News
went out TO his farm for the pur-
pose OF obtaining for the guidance OF
other farmers an insight into improved
farming methods, aud some of the results
OF actual experience.
MIR; Perry has, as his habit is, figured
ana observed closely, and gave some ro.
suits which will be Of interest. not only to
farmers, but to all who arc interested in
the development Of the country.
lhe first experiment he gave the his
'ory 0! WAS one with n smoothing har-
row. This implement, full size, with
.hree sections for t#o horses, costs 80.
anu VIII harrow twenty acres day..
requiring but one man TO drive and man :.
age II: In two sections for one horse it
costs less, and its capacity is little over
Twelve acres day. Mr.. Perry suggests
that as 1t will do mare work than ia
required on small farm, it would be
well for several farmers in a neiehbor-
mood to combine and purchase one for
their common use. The two horse size
can be easily drawn by one OK over fif.
teen acres day. The ordinary harrow.
OF which there are very few in use herca-
bouts, will only 60 over eight acres q
There. is prejudice in this section
against harrows, farmers fearing that the
cotton and corn plants will be torn up
ioy the teeth, and the frequency Of stumps
IN some fields being a further objection.
AS for the latter trouble, Mr.. Perry says
he has found by experience that siumps
can be removed at n cost of ten ce .its
apiece. For the former, one of his ex-
periments will answer
On the 9th Of last April he broke up
held OF twelve acres Of ordinary upland
and OH the 2Sth he planted it in corn.
using one sack Of guano for the whole.
by the ordinary method with a plow it
you'd have required two and half days
work of hand and horse to cover this.
lhe harrow with two horses and a hand
covered it in haif day. Where he
would ordinarily nave given it two hoe.
ings, he simply drove the harrow over it
twice, and therefore instead of having
fourteen days work of hand to nav for.
he had only two half days with a harrow.
one hand and two horses. He found
that the harrow did not pull the stalks
from the ground, and carried doubters to
the field and successfully defied them to
point to single stalk in all the twelve
acres showing any i'll effects from tho
teeth. He only gave this field one hoe.
ing. employing colored woman to go
over it TO replant and thin out. If the
land had been strong enough to stand
two stalks in hill no hocing would
nave been necessary, as the harrow GOV.
ers the grass and pulveriZcs the ground
thoroughly. In Illinois and Indiana,
where Mr.. Perry observed caerfully the
methods of raising grain, hoe is never
seen in the fields.
The yield Of corn on the twelve acres
cultivated with the harrow was 800
bushels, although the good result is Mt.
tributedly Mr.. Perry partly to his not
pulling the fodder, that process, in his
causing the grain to shrink.
lie gives the following comparative
figures as the result of his use of the i'm.
proved harrow