The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-02-18
FARMING.
BY s. Il. SMITH.


methQds of doing work on the farm
in the Eastern States fifty on more
years ago, | also described the implo-
ments used at that time, | will pass
over all the improvements that have
been made in farm implements and
the improved methods of doing the
work on the farta during these fifty
years, and compare the two extreme.
In PLACE of the woodoa plow with
which the farmers would work hard
all day to plow "a acre, we have the
two and three horse polished steel
pillow, that we can piow two and a
half and three acres a day; and the
four and eight horse gang plows that
we can pillow six and twelve acres Il
day; and instead OF the old heavy
wooden tooth harrow that would do
very poor work on two acres day,
we have the three and six horse
harrow that We can harrow from
sixteen to thirty acres, and in some
instances forty acres in day, and do
much better work than was possible
to do with the harrow III fifty years
ago. The seeder also is a great i'm
provement over the old method OF
sowing by hand; but perhaps the
greatest improvement is in The present
method of cutting and threshing
grain. With the old sickle one man
could cut and bind ono acre IN a day,
but the binder Of today and two men
with team will cut, bind and shock
from twelve to twenty acres in day.
It was a good days work for man
to thresh twelve bushels Of wheat
with the old fail; at the present time
fifteen men with steam thresher will
thresh from 1900 to 1000, bushels in
a day.
There are many o!her improve
ments used in farming, and methods
of doing work on the farm that are
too numerous TO mention, and would
make this article tedious. When I
commenced this article I had in view
something that I consider Of more i'm
portance than NEARLY comparing
olden times with the PRESENT. is
cause and effect. And first, what is
the cause of the present improved
condition of farm implements and
society? In order 10 got better idea
[ will go back nearly three hundred
years and repeat little history, in
1904 James |, threatened to drive the
Puritans out of the kingdom, in 1903
they left England and settled in
Holland, in 1920 they left Holland
and came to America, landing at
Playmouth Rock Dec. u. This little
colonly Of 101 souls who fed from the
Old World to escape persecution, laid
the foundation for eur present re-
publican form Of government. They
came to the New World in order that
they might enjoy religious liberty
and to establish Christianity, which is
the foundation of our government, Of
our institutions of learning, which
is the foundation Of civilization and
all the improvements in art and
science. Christianity, civilization and
education go hand in hand. I will
pass eyer the 200 years Of trials, hard
labor and study that has brought
this nation to its present improved
condition, or rather the condition of
this at On fifty years ago, for tho
adTance in the science Of agriculture,
in The science Of chemistry to dis
cover by analysis the properties of
the soil in different localities, saa the
science Of philosophy in the manu-
fatture of farming implements has
been more for the last fifty years than
it was in the ECO years previous to
1880. And the same is true in regard |
20 education; and we as nation take
pride in being called the most
civilized nation in the world. We |
also have the best government ia the
world. Our government intends to
give equal rights to all men. Living
under such q government all men
ought to be prosperous and happy;
but are they, are all classes of men
prosperous? I will try and answer
this question in my next and last
letter.
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