The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-12-24
An FARM HAND Is
RAPIDLY PASSING AWAY
0r,uG sUPPLANTED BY lMPlE-
VENTS AND MACHINERY.
,borpr and His Horse, Too, Ap-
40, TO Be on the Down Grade to
enture Comparative Oblivion.

.. ~ Be on the Down Grade to
eture Comparative Oblivion.
.r,o farm bands finish is in plain
.osaid the man who had just re-
from the west "And the farm
&c headed down the same pike.
,hoir stead is coming the little
ohoo engine of the new traction
"ontin the prairie region the ten
is all toward big farms. The
ion,tnral unit out there has been
e quarter section or one hundred
Id sixty acres
"Faw Of the farmers are satisfied
ow with small bunch of land, and
ov are reaching out all the time for
Sore, Wheat and corn have been
nnirc the market at such prices that
|earlv every fellow is crazy to go into
isino them on a good big scale. And
bov have the money and intelligence
do it, and do it probably.
Right here is where invention comes
On the ordinary farm, where two
three men with the same number
teams of horses can do all the work,
\ isn't really necessary to call on the
bacbine MAJ for artificial aid, but
kben farming is done on a big scale
NAYS better to buv traction engine.
fbese are not the ordinary big clumsy
ttacbments to threshing outfits, but
Ompacty built little fellows, with
asoline as the motive power.
with them there is no need OF get
Inc out at ungodly hours in the morn
no to feed and water a lot of animals.
live minutes work fills the tank and
bakes the machine ready to DO your
Blowing, narrowing or cultivating.
. "The first cost of these engines is
bretty steep, from $1,000 up, but it
osts less and they never get balkV.
fbey last longer than the average
FORK horse, and they do ten times as
huch work in a day.
"Out in Nebraska | ran across fell
bw with gang pillow, five IN a row
Aitched to one of these little engines,
nd it was steadily moving across the
IOO-acre field and tearing up the sod at
lively rate. This same man told me
bat when it came to narrowing he
|Rcked on two or three big ones and
/ id the job in a fourth of the former
|ime
Potatoes are planted and dug up
Fith these engines. In planting d
|arge dropper is used, and in digging
hem special kind of pillow is en-
plOyed.
when it comes time in the fall 10
|hraSh the engine is coupled to sepa-
'ator and the job is done in short or
fer If it is necessary in the winter
% grind feed for the cattle it is the
york OF but very few minutes to free
lp and start the mill. When grain is to
De hauled to market several farm wag-
)ns are attached and the procession
moves off.
There is scarcely a thing about
arm work that these machines will
lot do, and they are growing more
popular every year. The average far
ler thought the acme of comfort and
'erfectiou had been reached in the
ulky pillow and the riding cultivator,
mich saved him many weary steps,
10 1t has not been without cOnsidera-
lie trouble that he has been induced
take up the traction engine.
Hundreds of these are now being
Manufactured and sold every year.
ne company sends an agent out to
now she farmer how to run the affair
% how TO employ it in various labor
lVlng ways 1t doesn't take long to
earn this, and the cost of keeping one
INNING is only few cents an hour.
"Slxty-cent wheat and 50-cent corn