The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-10-03
wINNEMUccA NEVADA MONDAY EVENING" OCTOBER }. 1904
$.iO'S FAIR WANDERERS
~ Ideas in the Buying and
Planting of Seeds
st. Louis, Sept. 27. 1904

by the yard, and instead OF labor1ously
dropping them in hills or sowing them in
| burrows he will reel off string of them
from a wheel and simply plant the
string When John was let into this Sc
| cret of advanced scientific agriculture ny
the polite and loquacious inventor of the
| process he merely murmured. You're
stringng me-"
| But there were the strings Of seeds ana
| there were boxes with tiny plants grow
ing in them from the seeded strings.
Like everything else at this great expo
| sition, the demonstration left nothing
| for the imagination. The whole process
was shown. The seeds are twisted WITH
| in a ribbon of tissue paper and rolled
up on little reels holding about sixty rect,
| AS usual, the most interesting feature of
| the exhibit is the mechanism. by which
the product is turned out. In this case
the machine is a marvel of ingenuity. On
| one side is reel of narrow tissue paper
ribbon, resembling that of a stock-ticker.
"A
is set with little projecting steel pins.
These dip into liquid glue as the wheel
revolves and make little dots at in In
tervals upon the passing paper TO these
moist dots the radish seed. or turnip
seed or any kind of seed that is desired
adheres, the spaces between the dots
being determined by the kind OF seed
that is to be planted. The machine then
| folds the strip of paper over to enclose
the seeds, twists II into string ana
winds 1t upon pasteboard reel TO
plant the string there is little long
handled wheel which the gardener push
es up and down his garden and which
uncoils the string laying 1t in a furrow
and covering 1t with thin smooth lay
| er of dirt. 1t is easy to see that the
wind can't blow these seeds away while
you are sowing them and they are also
safe from maraudlng birds.
Everything in this palace of agricui-
ture is calculated to impress one with
| the fact that the life of the future farmer
| is to be life of ease. If he doesn't
operate the entire farm with electric
push buttons he will at least ne able 10
bring forth bountiful crops without the
exposure and the expenditure OF phys;
cal energy Incident to farming I'm the
early days. Here is an automatic time
| feed-box for horses which enables a
farmer to lie In bed as long as he
wants to in the morning. AT certain
hour a clock unloosens a latch and q
ration of grain runs down from hop
per In front of each horse. While the
stock is being automatically fed the far
mer may read mis- morning newspaper
delivered at his door by the rural mail
carrier.
Everything on the farm is to be done
| by machinery. except the household work
OF the farmers wife. / see no mechan-
ems that will enable her TO cook the
meals and operate the household machin-
cry by pushing electric puttins. And yet
some of her work has been lightened ana
smplifed. Here are machines for Sc
parating cream from the milk and but
fer from the cream. The farmers wife
doesn't have to wait for cream to rise
TO the surface and then ''churn" the
butter out of It by long laborious pro-
cess. The reason household work is not
push-button affair and life of ease
John says is because men have had
nothing to do with IT. And the farmer
no longer walks He rides. Everything
seems to have wheels on It. There are
| manure-spreaders, corn-planters, hay
leaders and stackers, drills pea pickers.
potato diggers. great steam plows, wind
pumps. self-binders. all tending to make
farming a delightful pastime.
And in addition to 1t all the creates;
display of fancy. highly-bred live stock
ever brought together in the world. In
4 the live stock pavilion we saw what
seemed to be AN endless procession of
prize winning Herefords, Jerseys, Guern-
seys. Polled Durhams. Holsteins, Aber-
deem Argus. Aryshires and other fancy
breeds of cattle. Some of the prize win
! ners were literally covered with rib
bons, trophies of past conquests. And
yet doubt II any one thinks OF great
I live stock show, the greatest ever he'd
in connection with the Worlds fair.
| r. A. d.