The Republican journal., 1893-05-25
A Retrospect.
FARMING SIXTY YEARS Ago AND FARM
ING AT THE PRESENT TIME.
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skllfu and more efhclent than they We're
sixty years ago will appear evident to
all who will take the trouble to com
pare the methods of farming at that date
with the methods of the present time.
And | am inclined to the opinion Though
am no prophecy that with our Ameri
can industry, perseverance and talent for
invention, the Improvement in the next
| sixty wears will be even greater than in
the past First we Will notice briefly the
! Improvement in our farm stock within the
last three score wears. ii Will be borne
in mind by those whose memory carries
them back To that time, that the cattle
upon our farms We're not to be compared
with the beautiful animals now seen there.
| The OK of that time was small, ~ shaped
and in every way inferior to the uX " the
present day Your correspondent well
Remembers the first pain ot oNtn ever sold
/ in the town Of Unity ion the astonishing
price ait Tint time, of ;! 100. and the ~iHe If
\ tho-e OXEN WAS no r,s astonishing than
| the price paid fol thrm, for tleG were ~
the enormous size Of sefen feet IN lirth.
] Now il is not unusual to see oxen mea>ur-
iMq ei4li nine and even ien feet. aid Seil-
iit4 tor lwo ahG three ana Some M lligh AN
foHi i.anired dollars pei pair; aud vellt
uge tn, assertion THAI there are NOR pairs
Of oxen sold at the present Time for ~3eo
THAN were sola three score yeals ago foi
\ 500 Our sheep have been improved ~
an equal greater extent, both in form
and size and in tlc quality and valGe Of
the wooi; and il is the Same wil oul
horses and other farm Stock. III tact, i
i difficult for Us to realize fully the
changes and Improvements Mhjeh the in
/ creased attention to agriculture has effect
~ ii oul farm stock III the last Sixty
YEATS
The changes and Improvements in farm
implements have been 10 l.~~ marked in
ihe last Mn decades than chose a qua ao-
nestle animals. Ills Mt appcl ~tlik-
in4ly evident if we compare TIE light
handsome. easy-Wolllne tools oN ned and
used by nearly every tarmti now With
the heavY mwieldly, bun4in4 tools n
nae siXtN yeal~ ago Though il may haNe
been little more ,han sixty wears a4p.
remember Noly vel the fl-t aa,l iron
llaw evci u~e,l ~ inA native towN Illiry.
and remember pliorto tliiy tiinp Nj sec-
lid light and even ten oxen on 4 team
Flowing. With TWO men and by q was
the boN) 10 drive the tean one to loll
flie rl"w. one ~ bear Qn tlle beam tn
keer the plow in the 4Iound ana rne "
unn s"ds after the pillow. No" with ON
MICS easy running non and steel piows,
\ onl improved horses. oxen and farms one
man with pain Of oxen NJ one pair Of
horses will 10 more blowing in a given
/ time than the foU OF five pains OF oxen
and four On five men could a. at that time
y when three foulths If an acre was conSia-
I cred good day S work | also remenl-
b"r of going to the blacksmith and Get
| tinga pitchfoll made. aud presume that
/ il that fork could he seen hv the Youngest
readers of the journal to-day they would
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a's' ih'''e eheo,idSlh- ei'an dli "iltf IN
prnvelnents comhnetf that thu farmer
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great or eveE greater ratio thar in his
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