The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-01-25


chine costs $3S. Four neighbors car
contribute $40 apiece, buy one of then,
and each save $3.50 on every ten acre,
he plants, and have one.sixth of hi,
present labor. This is not ALL AT n lit
tie additional cos! dropper and cotton
piahter can be attached 10 the cultiva
tor, and the complete machine will open
utop, ana cover ten acres Of cotton n la,
with beautiful regularity, or in othe,
words with two horses and man at $
cost OF Sl.50 it will do the work that i,
would require four hands and three
horses, at cost Of $3.50, to do by the
usual method. The machine eats moth.
ing, and requires nothing but a little
care. while the hands aud horses required
to 90 It's work eat all the year around.
Mr. Perry's latest investment is II Cas-.
s,iday. sulky turning plow. which cost
him 500 Mr. Perry is young and very
strong man and therefore probably
hardly appreciates ono Of the creates,
advantages of this machine, Which is,
That 1t saves the farmer an immense
amount OF fatigue, and enables him to do
many days work which he could not
DO with the old plow when he is sick or
partially disabled. On the sulky plow
the driver sits and rides us if he we're in
buggy, and gets over from four to six
acres Of p!owinga day with two horses.
whereas, he could plow but one acre in
the same time with the usual plow.
with two horses aud hand he can plow
In day at cost of $3.50 what would
require hand and horse six days to dc
NJ cost of Sc. He saves $3.50 on his
SIX acres OF plowing. aud needs but one
thlrd OF the hoHeflesh and one-sixth of
the black labor that be generally wants.
lhe Cassiday pillow also saves the cost of
extra plows, for il can be set to plow a
deep furrow, or wide, shallow one as
may be wanted.
In this connection, Mr.. Perry said, in
answerto questions, that he did not be-
ileve IN piowing so as to turn up the clay
10 the top. He prefers to break up the
ground three to four inches deep and
then to subsoil.
lie IS thoroughly in love with the
ssulky plow, which whcn.not in use can
be geared up and driven over the roads
like any other vehicle, and proposes to
make journey around the country on
It TO show it, aud TO demonstrate the
truth of what he says by blowing for
He has used Moore reaper. which
does the work Of ten colored persons at
harvest time. 1t cuts ten acres of grass
or oatslin day at cost of Sl.5Oethe
same work that ten harvest hands will
want dollar day apiece for.
He has recently purchased a "Stand
ara reaper which cuts a swath six feet
wide, and will 60 over fifteen acres day
with easy draught for two horses.
AS decisive and concluding question
the News reporter asked, after all the
machinery had been talked over and the
figuring had been done:
MIR. Perry. to what special cause do
you attribute your invariable success i'm
farming?"
Mr.. Perry had apparently not consid.
ered this subject especially, and thought
for some time before he replied, that one
great cause was the fact that he had
always made each horse work forty acres
oil land. The only way to get that work
out Of them, ho explained, in answer to
further questions, was to feed high, and
the only way to feed high was to raise
ones own grain on the farm. That is a
clear and logical course Of reasoning
certainly. o.
Inspecting the stables on the farm it
was found that every bit Of manuEs was
saved. The cattle, including the mich
COWS, stand at night on an inclined plat
form raised few inches from the floor.
The feed stalls are behind what looks
like paling fence. A paline is drawn
away, the animal puts its head into tho
stall, and the paling is restored to its
place and locked. The COW or OK can
lie down, and can browse all night on
the feed in the rack above the stall, the
openings in it being to narrow too allow
of much being taken at once. But the
head can not be withdrawn until the pal.
ing is opened again next day, and tho
cattle stand or lie in row, close together
but without crowding, trampling or
hooking" The manure all falls on the
platform and floor and is swept down
through trap doors to the compost heap
underneath, in which the straw from the
pig pen-n snug little plank house con.
veniently arranged for warmth and con-
venient feeding-is dumped once week.
Mr. Perry believes in homemade ma.
nure and compost. It's good effects
remain in the soil longer than Others ac.
cording to his experience.
why don't farmers use it more gener-
ally. then?"
because ofthe expense of distributing
it, and because it is so hard to distribute
it evenly"-and this started Mr.. Perry
on another machine, to wit: compost
distributor. 1t makes, he says, the use
of compost easy and beneficial. 1t will
distribute six acres day, load to the
acre, while without it two hands will
have hard work putting in ar acre day,
and then do it in spots-More nsures, on
compost distributing: With the ma.
chine man and horse can cover ak
acres in day, at cost of 81; without
it, two hands will cover six acres in six
days at cost Of Sc. With the machine,
compost distributing costs 18 cents an
acre; without it, 81 an acre.
OF course there is /, gin on Mr.. Perry's
place, and, equally, of course, 1t makes
interest on It's cost.
He believes that everybody making
twenty bales Of cotton ought to do their
own ginning. He has stopped public
ginning, but has hitched enough machin-
cry to his engine to pay him. He runs
a grist mill. One pulley runs a power.
full little machine for grinding up corn,
shucks, cob and all for feed; another
runs a feed cutter which cuts oats, etc., as
fast as they can be fed to it; another
turns q small circular saw which cuts a
load Of wood in fifteen minutes, and