The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-23

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When we come to harvesting ma
chinery, the saving in labor is great
est of all. Here, inventive genius
has been given it's widest scope anG
the results while costly to the pur
chaser at first, r wonderful in
their efficiency ard final economy.
One of my neighbOrs when asked
which improved farm tool had paid
him best as an investment unhesitat.
ingly replied, "My McCormick mower
and hay rake" These machines are
a necessity on any well-equipped
farm, for only by their use can we
gather the large forage crops which
are beginning to assume so much
Importance on the Southern farm.
Heretofore our forage has cost US
too much. You cannot pull fodder
by hand and feed it proftably to cat.
tie. Tt may do very we'll for driving
horses, and is unquestionably a splen-
did food, and the horses relish it !;
but for mules and cattle we must de-
pend on pea vines, wheat or oats cut
green for hay, and corn cut stalk
and all. Here the "shredder' comes
in, saving untold hundreds of dollars
to the farmer. 1t has been estimated
that there r enough corn stalks
wasted annually in Georgia, to feed
all the mules and horses in the State.
The only trouble with these machines
Is their first cOst-$225. This can,
however, be obviated to a certain ex-
tent by a number of farmers in a
community clubbing together when
they can all reap the benefit with
only a small individual outlay. The
Mccormick people whose advertise
ment appears in this paper, make a
fine machine with a capacity of
shocking 25 to 80 bushels of corn,
and shredding one and a half to two
tons of forage per hour. From this
you a e that n machine in a
community is all that is necessary.
We must not only learn to do our
work cheaply and we'll, but we must
what we make. I think our
friends who have followed me thus
far in these articles, will admit the
necessity of new and improved tools
TO put into successful practice the
new methods of farming. They will
also admit, I think, that it is next to
impossible to succeed and become
Independent farming in the old way,
and also that the farmers who read
and adopt these new methods are the
ones who r getting ahead. You
admit all this and then you straight
way begin to make excuses and say
you cannot afford to buy these
that they are all right for the
man who has plenty of money with
to pay for them, but as for
you, it is more than you can do TO
meet your daily expenses, to say
nothing of paying out money for
machinery. | know it is, friends,
md just how you feel about it but
you have got to make a start some
where, and the sooner you begin, the
sooner you will get ahead. All that
8 necessary is to make up your mind
hat you must have these improved
,ools to work with, and you will OBJ
ain them quicker than you will
hink. Is is not necessary that you
hOuld do is all at once. But COM
hence with the tool you need most,
cutaway harrow, perhaps, or a
moving machine, and when you
AVE secured it see that it is taken
are of and kept under a shed out of
he weather, then it will pay and
lelp you TO get the next most i'm
'ortant implement but don't buy at
IL unless you mean to take care of
{. | visited d farm some time ago
n which l saw wagons, plows, har-
ows and other tools laying about in
corners and under trees, in all
of decay, The owner OF this
arm was continually buying some
lew tool and letting those he had 90
o ruin. They told me he was heav-
ly in debt, and l did not wonder at
after n look at his place. {
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