Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-07
INQUIRY DEPARTMENT.

r. p. CarroIlton, CAL prepared four
acres for planting In tomatoes for canning
purposes. Owing to the dry weather
failed TO get a stand. have planted the
ground in cucumhers for picking. and
want TO know the best way 10 handle
them. Where could / get a cheap OUTFIT
for picking? Please advise me as 10 the
best way to handle them.
Answer-I think your best plan would be
to write 10 the Dennis Canning and Sup
ply Company" 81 asst Alabama street,
Atlanta, Ca. for price OF outfit and also
for full information as to the latest and
best methods OF preparing canned goods
for market. They. have all this informa-
ton in circular form. You can secure an
OUTFIT for SIS.
j. o. B., Mulberry Grove. Ga.-Please
answer through your most interesting col
umns the following questions: What kind
OF farm labor-saving machinery can we
use profitably on our ordinary lands OF
Georgia. and what part OF the state is IL
you can come nearest using all. conceding
fertility and climate? Now as to my opin-
ION, the improved labor-saving machinery
is one OF the most vital and important
questions that confronts each and every
farmer east Of the Mississippi river, and
your consideration of the last might be
Of untold value to me. Knowing that the
first question will be of vast Importance
TO the public as well as to me.
Answer-The question OF labor-saving
machinery on our farms is not only one OF
Importance from an economical stand
point In the production OF crops at the
lowest possible cost but IL Is a matter
OF necessity. as labor on the farm grows
scarcer and more expensive as the years
so by. Every young farmer should pre-
pare his lands as rapidly as possible for
-
cultivation and harvesting of crops. NO
field can receive the advantages OF i'm
proved machinery and pillow implements
that is not fairly level or well terraced
and lie free from stumps and other large
distractions.
Kidding the field OF stumps and nIling
the washes are among the first things
needful. No farmer who operates less
than two or three good mules or horses
can expect 20 accomplish much with i'm
proved implements. The one-horse farm
er will always be doomed to old methods
OF culture. There should be two good
mules worked on every thirty or forty
acres OF open land. and there should be
no such thing as a one-horse farm. No
where else in the United States does the
one-horse farmer exist except in the old
cotton states east OF the Mississippi With
the land cleared of distractions, we can
at once introduce the disc plan in break
ing and the harrow and roller in smooth
ing and evening down the soil to a perfect
state of Nth.
Improved implements with adjustable
markers could then be employed IN laying
OF the rows at even distances apart. so
that riding sulky plows could be proflta-
bly, used IN the cultivation OF the growing
crop. One man can then do the work OF
two. and do IL far more satisfactorily
than at present. The crops can be nicely
harvested with machinery and farming
would be far more pleasant and profitable
than under our present slow methods.
Machinery is cheap compared to hand
labor. 1t can be used successfully with
ordinary intelligence, and the implements
needed can be purchased TO meet the
demands Of the different crops cultivated.
But the first essential is to put the land
in proper shape to receive the improved
implement