The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-10-08


devoutly give thanks. Com nos.;ns
and ensilags conserve the nitrogen
GUS components of barn yard ooze
much better than was doue when they
were left to weather -
For planting there is a machine for
every kind of seed, cunningly design
ed, we'll built and perfectly adapted to
the work for which it is Intended. It
makes no mistakes, never skips an
inch, sows no more thicker in one
place than in another, and does its
stunt" with an intelligence which
even the impossible Jonas Of the Rol-
10 books could not have displayed.
For grain and grass the "broadcast
seeder' is used. This is attached to
an ordinary wagon, and the only hu-
man corporation it requires is keeping
its hopper full. It will distribute all
kinds of dry commercial fertilizers
and will put them just where they
will do most good.
A mechanical grain drill is provided
for such grains as need to be planted
Systematically in rows or hills. It is
infallible in its operations and would
plant corn, for example, in the middle
OF mesadam road ifthis was required
Of it. Among other attachments it
has land measure, something like q
cyclometer, which records the acreage
planted and would calculate the yield
If it were not for the element Of uncer.
tainty introduced by weather vioissi-
tudes and the variable industry of
crop destroying birds and insects. To
cover the seed it has planted it is
provided With : system Of hoes which
are adjusted to work atraigh. CT zig
gag.
A variant Of this apparatus weeds
as well as sows. Still another is the
bean planter, which is quite remarka-
BILE in its intelligence, SO to speak. It
drills the hole in the ground, plants
the beans, covers them, and marks the
position of the next row at one opera
ton. 1t will even alternate corn and
beans, turn and turn about, or plant
corn or beans, distribute fertilizer and
cover everything impartially. In fact,
it will do anything for which the far
mer has the intelligence to adjust it.
The potato planter would make a
farmer Of generation ago sit up and
rub his eyes. 1t requires that the
potatoes be supplied, but will do sll
the rest Of its own initiative. Itpicks
the potato up-or seems to-cuts ii
into halves, quarters, OF any desired
number Of parts, separates the eyes
and removes the seed ends. ItSplanes
whole potatoes or parts thereof as de.
s:ssd as near together or Us far apart
as the judgment Of the farmer on the
driving aeat.auggests.
Having .droppedithe seed it covers
it, fertilizers it, tucks i.;s like child
put to bed, and PAGES Of the next row
with mathematical accuracy. With
phonograph attachment it might even
repeat the familiar invocation, "Now
I lay me-" etc., il any advantage was
diseoverable' therefrom in the case Of
Q tuber. q.
Certain vegetables. notably .oma-
toes, cabbage, oaulifover, celery, let
tuce and some others, need to be start.
ed in cold frames, and transplanted
for the practical business Of growing.
For this purpose there ia plant-set-
ting machine, which will handle q
sprout as if it loved it, establish it in
its new environment, gather the earth
tenderly about It's roots, give is AGO.
pious drink of, water from a tank it
carries, aud cover from four to six
acres in day, The transplanting is
done 80 quickly that the plant is said
TO be established in its new position
before it realizes the fact that it has
been moved or has time to become
homesick.
The various operations generically
known as ''cultiyating" were once the
bane Of the farmer's existence. For
them he needed 9 hickory back with
sole leather hinges and frequent slim
ulatior from the switched jug. The
hoe wrs his implement Of greatest
fgeneral utility. With the destroyed
the weeds. loosened the soil, shaped
up the hills. and did many other
laborious and extremely monotonous
tasks.
It was, moreover, diacouraging
work. He could only d. it by day
light, whereas the weeds kept growing
night and day, and by the time he
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