The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-12
CITY MAN IN THE COUNTRY
Farmers M In the Old Way. bu. Everything
Else Is Modern.

I'VE who live in the cities never know about
the country. We imagine that we are the only
ones who get the advantages of modern inven-
lions, and that the farmer plays around in the
mud the same as he did when We were boys.
Why, learned more during those TWO days
on the farm than ever expected to know about
farming. Now, you helped to thrash when you
to the time when tho men used to cradle the
grain and then beat II out with fails, but l
chimes. The self.bipder hadn't come in Vet,
We used to thrash the grain with one OF those
horse power separators that you could hear
TWO miles away when II got TO grinding. You
horses going around on the power and a man
chine was a horsc.killer and no mistake. 1t took
i r0V WAS Hi har %'n pafiS D: G III The t IL get s Thsn Il i ,Sa
FEEDER happened to let = wet sheaf get In cross.
would go up in the air. You probably remember
that when the traction engine came in every one
said that it was the final Improvement.
separator had to b be fcd f"i from mat bo dfs
sides,two hand cutters, two men TO put the
stack the straw. Did you ever work at the TAIL
end OF the machine rs they used 10 call il
thick that it got In your ears. nose and mouth.
down your back. sticktng TO you, and tickling
was everywhere: straw pi!ing np around Non
and threatening 10 bury you unless you worked
your, way out; sun about 9s and no shade And
boys left the farm!
,,"Well. when l was at Ezra's / went over with
the tail end Of the, machine any more. IN.
stead or the Old fashioned straw carrier, with
provided with a blower, shaped Just like a big
IS s% forssd tSroa anS tS Al. s shs sow strSM a c han
blower carries all the dust and chat away
from the machine, In the old days YOU couldnt
Ing II. Hut; as started TO tell YOU. there are
nc men on the strnwstack any more. That big
blower swings around and dlstributes tbs
straw. making u good semi-circular stack.
ihere arc no men at tho other end OF the ma.
p4,ient cutter. and the sheayes are carried 10 the
SyInder h{ an .uiomstir feeder. All the men
nave TO DO Is 10 nitGh the sheaves up on the
the oats, are ~th,asned out they are carried TO the
top OF me machine, weighed and measured and
tue wagon has to do is 10 keep the grain scooped
The way that grain comes ont i, \ caution
II takes a very few minutes to nil a wagon. As
q matter OF fact, about the only labor in thrash.
m ma nima""Ss on Is t 'hs HSMIinS TO and from he
I'M ne Miller When 900 bushels was considered
n a StS q as! : ,b 5eEa sa bur ! ugdsE,'and that
bushels. ltthty could only invent sonic device
u, so EGSp ErSin az a good price they'd be all right,
It's, remarkable" said Miller. Il didn't
kmSw mat The machinery had been improved 10
work. said Goodwin. Ezra Mas moving me
much, pitching any more. And you k9nw
bow they plant corn now, don't YOU 1 don't,
nut understand you don't have 10 null a lever
now except a corn husIer. but Exfs saSs
tost "a mar wants, TO sell him one
Tor nus fall. so II i 20 hack naxt
year Ezra will probably be sitting in lie houss
TeAdtns a pancr, while the machine i ONT hysE.
ihE MS corn. Yes. everything's different. EErsS.
VIE did her ,oosing on a gasoline stove To-
MiMI pump draws the water, and | bclieveiit
the old,tashioned NAY, but thai Mas akomt IN
only thing l recognized" wv VAC