Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-10-04

man with the hoe, and even the hay.
maker Is rapidly becoming a memory
We are all familiar with the horse
rake which gathers the hay into Ions
swaths. At last apparatus has been
designed that gathers up the swath as
1t moves along, raises 1t to the top OF
wagon, where the man with the
pitchfork, adjusts the load. AS the
vehicle moves forward it is filled by
this hay elevator attached to its real
and the hay adjusted, ready to be
hauled to the market without another
touch.
Scene In Grain Fields.
The grain field at harvest time pre-
sents an animated scene, especially
when the wheat Is thrashed on the
spot where it Is grown. The old-time
thrasher with its horses in the tread
mill was considered a little short of
marvellous, but it was long since dis
carded for the one driven by the trac-
ton engine which hauled 1t from place
fornia wheat field can see the climax
of the agricultural engineers effort-a
mechanical giant, which, as 1t passes
through the mass of waving stalks,
cuts them, separates the kernels from
the sheaf and binds the straw. Ac-
tually the only manual labor perform
ed with the wheat itself Is to remove
the bags of grain as fast as the ma
chine fills them, and to load the straw
bundles on the wagon to be hauled
away, yet the cutting, raking, binding
and thrashing are continually being
done from the time the man at the le-
yer starts his motor until he stops II.
In fact, steam power Is utilized In Pa
cific coast farming more extensively
than elsewhere in the world. Tractors
representing the power Of fifty horses
are substituted for animals in plough
ing a field, making a series Of burrows
tN enty feet wide and dragging from
tw elve to twenty ploughs after them.
When the earth is ready for harrow
ing, they are attached to harrows 30
feet wide specially built for them. The
steam harvester is in common use.
With it $50 acres Of grain can be cut,
thrashed and stacked in twelve hours,
for 1t mows a swath twenty-five feet
wide. The tractor draws its ploughs
over fifty to sixty acres in DAY, ac-
cording to the character Of the soil.
Revolution In Old Methods.
When one stops to consider what
these figures mean he can get so ne
conception Of how machinery is aiding
in the revolution we have referred to.
The invention Of it has been stinulat-
ed by the demand for labor and ;lne
saving appliances, but this demand
has originated from the desire Of the
agriculturist to apply methodical ideas
as in other channels of human acttv-
;ty. AS he has studied his vocation he
has realized the great opportunities of
wi ich he can take advantage If he has
adequate facilities. If a man believes
he can make a thousand or five thou
sand dollars more by adding to his
acreage he Is strongly tempted to
make the addition, especially when
modern methods will give him the de-
sired results without overwork. This
is the secret Of the expansion Of many
Of the western farms to their present
size. Not all their owners have sue
ceeded, as in the instance we have cited
but many have done so, and the sto-
ries Of the rural capitalists who direct
operations from their automobiles and
drive over their places behind teams
OF thoroughbreds have more than n
grain Of truth in them, as the camera
proves. But they are of the class who
use their heads more than their hands,
bearing the same relation to their
property that the president Of a cot
ton mill or of a foundry does to his
industry.-New York Times.