The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-03-02
Deer Creek Farmers Club.
Farming implements and Machiner

President, Mr.. VIM. Muunikhuysen, on Saturday |
implements and machinery.
James H. Ball said he supposed the question is,
what are the best kinds of implements. He had
used world reaper and mower with great salts |
faction. OF plows he preferred the Oliver chilled.
There are great variety of spades, shovels, SC
but there is nothing better than the Ames shovel.
1t is impossible to farm without improved ma
chinery.
improved machinery they need, but no more. 1t
is important also, to keep 1t sheltered so as to
make 1t last as long as possible.
George Il. Silver said the use of improved ma
chinery is indispensable to successful farming
IL he only had acres of grass to cut he would
have moving machine. or with Is acres Of wheat
using bad pows He had used the Oliver chilled
and the Gale. The former is more durable but
the latter will turn under the most rubbish He
had used q spring-tooth harrow and preferred it
to any spike-toothed harrow. For the last years
he had used wheel cultivator, and found it to
work well; but In small area he preferred one
horse cultvator, because it will work close to the
corn. The Malta shovel pillow is good imple-
ment, and the one-horse drag is also good thing.
The best machinery is the cheapest, and while we
should strike the happy medium, by not having
too much, we may lose by not having something
Il. Harris Archers opinion was that too much
. money Is spent in farming implements. We may
want to 9TH only 10 or ~ acres But to make the
the same with mowers and reapers. TO get a fair
return for their cost each reaper should cut $50
acres, whereas many do not reap Is acres. He
recommended two or three farmers in noigh-
borhood uniting to buy reaper in common. 1t
would do the work for all. He thought that In
three years. on account of the scarcity of labor,
every odys wheat will be cut with elf-binder.
A double harrow will level the ground as well
cultivator will work the field cleaner than the
patent cultivators. In experienced hands the
latter will do twice as much work, but ordinary
farm hands can not work them properly.
Thomas Lochary said farmers should endeayor
to get the best machinery and implements With
little patch of wheat and rough ground man
hllgina1a Whnrn the
is suitable you can generally save IL bushels to
the acre by using reaper instead of cradles
as prevent bad feeling and swearing. He had
found the improved implements strong and dura-
BILE. The kind that will suit one farm will not
suit another. Steel pows run easier than ordi-
| nary plows and do good blowing, but the old Ar
thur plow with two yoke of oxen and pair of
horses is as good as any.
BENNETT H. Barnes was also in favor of improv-
ed machinery. Every year wheat is more or less
down and reaper will save it. Has used a
Woods reaper for II or Is years and 1t is still in
working order self-binder will pay If you
have as much us 20 acres to cut.
b. Silver, u, SAID II pays r to use the best and
| plows is as great us in anything else. The new
| style Oliver chilled and the Syracuse will pillow
one-third more land In day than the old-time
plows. Taking one year with another 1t pays to
haze a reaper, but IL wheat would always stand
| up straight would prefer cutting it with cradles
Last year he cut 60 with cradles in four days.
| at cost of $44. The improvement in wheat drills
| has also been great. Last year he planted 200
acres OF sugar corn with all Empire wheat grill.
1t made the rows 40 inches apart, planting two
| rows at a time. The fertilizer was applied with
the corn Mr.. Silver added that on adjoining
| fields. where the corn was planted the same way
but the fertilizer applied broadcast the corn was
the best. He likes double cultivators, but for Is
dr r ssb me 10 6 or
tivator is that you can not work as near the ends
Of the rows as with one-horse cultvator.
| Edward p. Moores thought farmers should take
| advantage of all kinds of machinery to save labor.
| There has been great improvement in farming
| implements and in nothing more than in plows.-
| 1t is best to cut wheat with reaper: 1t should
| be kept in good order. Much time is wasted in
| the field with broken machinery, and therefore
| 1t Is economy to get the best.
| Harry Wilson thought farmers should keep up
| with the times In improved machinery. Self
binders appear to be working successfully now,
| farmer to have one. There has been great i'm
provement in plows, but he sticks to the old Ar
thur. It is hard to determine which is the best
pillow. The kind that will suit one man may not
| suit another. He prefers iron cultivators, and
| likes the Thomas smoothing harrow. Last fall
| his land became hard and he used a disc harrow
| with great satisfaction. 1t is not good in stony
| land, but cuts sod up nicely. A wheat drill is an
Indispensable piece of machinery, and every
| farmer with 100 acres should have one of his own.
| 1t would be Il good plan for a number of farmers
in a neighborhood to combine and buy a self-bn-
| der, which would cut and bind the wheat on all
their farms in as short time as reaper would cut
| 1t. A sulky pillow, besides being comfortable for
a lazy man, has this advantage that any ordinary
| boy who can drive horses can work it.
| X. John Rogers said a farmer should have the
best improved farming implements, but no more
than he actually needs. He would not have
| for nothing. He did not think the difference in
| favor of self-hnder over an ordinary reaper is
| as great people imagine. The self-bnder is
uuwedy, likely to get out of order and the cost of
| wire or cord amounts to more than the cost of
binding by hand He has Champion reaper,
| which had run for years, and he had never lost
! over 30 minutes In the field with it at any one
time. lie preferred single reaper and single
| mower If he only sowed III acres of wheat he
| wOuid have "a drill. As To DlDwa farmer
thinks his own the best. There Is, indeed, but
little difference in steel pows.
| WIN. Webster said improved machinery bore
the same relation to the old kinds that improved
stock bears to the old-fashioned stock He would
not advise any farmer to buy all the improved
machinery on the market: but when his machine
ry wears out replace it by the best that can be
found. If a farmer has machine that can not
be made to do good work he will save by throwing
it away and buying a better one. The pillow is as
| important to the farmer as the hatchet to the
carpenter or the trowel to the mason. Is satisfied
with the Oliver chilled pillow, and can do with it as
much work with two horses as his father could
with three horses and the old-time pows If
compelled to do without any machinery but the
pillow the drill is the last he would dispense with
1t is of advantage to have the reaper and the
mower separate, as time is lost by changing.
| Judge Waters said farming could not be done
now without improved machinery and it is poor
economy to use inferior articles. The kind used
must depend upon the character and quantity Of
land and the manner of farming it,. Nothing has
been more improved than agricultr raj imple-
ments and it is now impossible to attempt to farm
|
them The Illustration Mr. Silver gave of the ad-
vantage of cutting wheat with cradles over a
reaper, was hardly fair, because he had a large
| number of hands working by the year, and their
labor of course, did not cost so much per day, ms
| the hire of temporary hands. The time Is coming
| when all farmers will use the self binder. Farm
| work can be done cheaper by machinery than by
muscular force, but farmers should avoid the ex-
pense of OVERRIDING it.
.vided with the best machinery they can obtain,
but he would not advise any one to 20 In debt for
| it. Many farmers had laid the foundation of
debt and been sold out for agricultural machinery
| which they could have done without. Machinery
| should be well taken care of. Reapers and NOW
tight house, which the dust can not penetrate
Every farmer with 20 or 30 acres Of wheat and
| money enough to buy self-binder should have
than the cost of wire or cord for the machine
| He had used Champion reaper for years but
liked the Nanny IS well as any he had seen he i
Thomas A. Hays agreed with Judge Waters
and Mr.. Moores. He then asked the cost per
acre of cutting putting in the barn and threshing
wheat that will yield 20 bushels to the acre. B
Silver Jr said as general thing was worth "a
| acre ought to pay for 1t.
| VIM. Munnikhuysen, the President, said nc
| reference had been made to hay tedders Judge
Waters said he had used one and thought 1t OF
great advantage where large crop of hay Is to
| be saved.
| using circular wood saw to save labor.
Mr.. Munoikhuysen believed in using good ma
| chinery and whatever farmer requires. Farm
| ers complain that prices are too high. He had
| recently been enabled to find out more about
manufacturers profits than he knew before, ant
small 1t was only by selling great number tina,
| 1t became profitable.
Mr.. Geo. 3, Silver suggested that as It was the
Presidents birthday. the club extend their bes
| wishes to Mr.. Munnikhuysen for a long life and
| many happy returns. The motion was carried
| unanimously.
Resolutions of respect to the memory of the
| late Major VIM. ii. Daam, an honorary member
| of the club, were passed and the club adjourned
| to meet at Mr.. Johns Fl. Janneys, March 18th.
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