The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-02-16
FARM MACHINERY.

Good Implements Help to Make the
Farmer independent In HIS Work.
In these days when farm help is so
scarce, and often SO unreliable. it be-
hooyes every farmer to cast about for
all those labor-sasing helps that will
aid to make him independent in his
work. With what satisfaction we see
our good wives work the excellent
sewing machines, doing in hours what
it would take days and even weeks to
do by hand! l know Of one of these
good wives. that makes the sewing
machine darn her carpets and the
chi!dren's clothes. This is not only
done very quickly. but often SO neatly
that it is not easy to find the place of
the old rent. This same wife has late
ly purchased button-hole worker,
with which she can do at least four
times as much work as she could in
the same time by hand. 1t is not only
good economy. but often wondrous
comfort and satisfaction to SO add
these helps in the equipment Of the
home that 1.-THE girl may be dispensed
with.
But it is not only indoors but out on
the farm as well that machinery may
be profitably added. A year ago /
plowed up piece Of my DOGGY marsh
land which had been very thor
oughly drained. l had done the same
the two previous years and found that
the preparation Of the land in the
spring for corn was a tremendous task.
Last spring l read an account of the
disc harrow. l purchased one. and
believe it almost paid for itself this
one season, aud it is still as good -
ever. It cut or melLowed the soil very
quickly. and without disturbing the
sod.
Governor Luce told me q year ago
that he considered hay-loader as one
of the very desirable additions TO his
farm machinery. One OF our best
Lansing farmers who has had loader
for ten years says he values it nearly
as highly as he does his mower. He
considers his machine. after ten years,
really as good as new. So purchased
a loader. and lind it an excellent in.
yestment 1t is hitched to the wagon in
moment. With heavy grass it takes
it just as left by the tedder. otherwise
it takes the hay from small windrow
and puts it on the load as rapidly as
two smart men can handle it. / am
glad purchased a loader.
One Of the serious things on a farw
is the going to mill. For us, to feed
profitably. our grain must be ground.
At least we feed our cattle at great
loss unless we do grind our grain. II
we drive of four or five miles the
delays. toll, ETC.. make the thoughtful
farmer wonder if there is not better
way. have looked about and found
a mill which grinds twelve to fifteen
bushels an hour. and grinds we'll. No
more going to mill at our house. The
work is done by colts which are better
for it, and on stormy days, SO there is
little expense.
But how about powere Steam was
costly. dangerous and unhandy
Wind-power was unreliable The wind
might not blow when l wished to fill
my silo. l investigated thread.
powers and found one. two horse.
power, that l think entirely safe. l,
works well and easily. is just the thing
to steady colts and can be worked en-.
tirely under shelter. use this power
to grind all my feed, to cut my corn
for the silo. and to cut my stalks and
other coarse feed. 1t is a grand wa.
to work in rainy days, and pleases me
very much. We have done all our
work this fall, cutting torn to Gil a
large silo. grinding .ised and cutting
coarse feed with three and four-year-
old Hambletonian colt each weighing
about eleven hundred and thirty
pounds, and they are all the better TO,
the work. can. heartily recommend
farmers to secure these four machines.
Disc harrow, loader, ead-power and
good grinder They will soon pay
for themselves -RuYal New Yorker.