The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-31

earth, and marks for the next row all
at one operation. 1t also sows fertil.
izer, placing it just below the seed,
after sufficient earth has been mixed
with the former. 1t is provided with
steel runners or discs TO cover the
seed and these yield to all irregulari.
ties of the soil. For the transplant.
ing Of plants, such as tomatoes, cauli.
Hover. cabbages, celery, in fact all
plants that do not require to be sot
nearer than one foot apart, the auto
matte plant setting machine will cover
from four to six acres day. Au
automatic check valve fitted to II tank
attached to the machine let's water
flow through hose extending in be-
hind the shoe or turnover, just before
setting the plant. The flow cnn be
regulated from one to six barrels an
acre.
cULTtvAToRs FOR EVERY PLANT.
Formerly when the crops wer.
planted aud had begun to grow farm
ers and vegetable gardeners had to
ply the hoe vigorously in order to
loosen or cultivate the soil, and to
keep down weeds. This was hard
work and moreover where growth was
rapid and rank it involved hiring ex-
ira labor. The talent of inventors has
reduced the fatigue of this agricultural
function to minimum. Most OF these
machines are light aud opei ated by
man power. There ale others in
which horses are used. Those who
employ call them the greatest labor
savers of the. age. There are some
provided with a number of spring
steel teeth which while they do not
injure the plants loosen aud uproot
the weeds. These are more on the
principle of the harrow. There is a
machine for cultivating aud hilling
celery. 1t is through the use of these
devices that celery is marketed in such
perfect condition, with every stalk
bleached to its very top. Potatoes
are cultivated aud hilled up by q
special machine that does the work of
many men far more thoroughly and ex i.
peditiously than human hands can ac-
complish it. There are many ina
chimes combining hoe, cultivator, rake
and plow. The latest machine
plows, burrows, covers and hills;
there are rakes for shallow cultivation,
fining, levelling and pulverizing the
soil; there are cultivator teeth for deep
stirring of the soil, and hat hoes of
different widths for loosening crust
and cutting off weeds.
Every growing plant except cotton
is now provided with a cultivator that
does away with au immense expendi-
ture of human toll AS yet no ma.
chine has been perfected that picks
cotton with the discrimination OF man.
The difficulty to be overcome is to
avoid injury to mature cotton balls
that are growing on the same plant
with those that are immature. No
doubt some method will be found that
will overcome this defect. Then the
Southern darkey will find his services
no longer so eagerly sought for as they
are at present.
LABoR-sAvISG HAEvEsrERs.
Machines TO harvest crops come in
every variety to perform special
function. Everyone is familiar with
the moving machine. 1t has driven
the scythe out of use. Formerly there
were men whose trade was confined
exclusively to the use of this imple-
ment. None is following it to-day.
The same is true Of the reapers and
binders of grain; single machine
will do the work of twenty or more
men. The old.fashioned flail to thresh
grain is now curiosity. The rattle
of the -thresher is familiar
sound in autumn to every resident of
a farming country. The sulky hay
tedder will thoroughly turn and spread
four acres OF cut grass in an hour.
This can be repeated SO often that in
single day the crop Of hay from
that amount of land can be cured and
stored. In loading the crop, human
hands are no longer nece ssary. except
to guide the team that draws the
wagon. The machine hay loader will
put ON load in five minutes. 1t
takes the hay direct from the swath,
though it will rake and load from
light windrows.
There is a labor saving machine for
every agricultural process, most of
them automatic. Farming IN the
future will not be Synonymous with
toll. What heretofore the farmer
has expended in the hire Of labor he
will devote to the purchase of ma.
chinery. This does not consume food,
neither does it sulll or throw up Job
at the most inopportune moment, nor
strike for higher pay. The farmer of
the future will be more or less a man
of leisure. The machine will do the
work. The weather, however, as in
the past, will suffice to make him q
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