The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-23


81. LOUIS. No., July 18th, 1904.
Aessys. Editors THE exhibit Of farming ma
chinery In the Palace Of Agriculture covers
about Eve acres. or one-fourth Of the building.
A great many people stop to look at the many
new devices used by the up-to-date and scientific
farmer, and when the question Is put to them,
'Are you interested In farming ?" reply, mo.
but was raised on a FARM Almost invariably
this is the reply made by those who are not
farming. Professional men. such as doctors,
lawyers. bankers and merchants, give this reply
and the majority of them have longing desire
to be back on the FARM and q great many add
land I'm going to get back to farming" Ifthose
who are Disconnected on the farm would come
here and listen to the people from all over the
country express their desire to be back in the
country, It would be panacea for their discon-
tent and they will go back with the feeling that
they are engaged In the most independent busi
ness on earth.
Among the latest things in the harvesting ma
chinery line is the corn harvester. that cuts and
stacks the corn. It holds the corn upright until
a large shock is made, then ties 1t, lifts 1t up
with derrick and sets it down on the ground.
tops up and butts down. Another ia the machine
that gathers the ears only, leaving the fodder on
the stalk. Here you see the big headers that are
pushed ahead by the horses and cuts the heads
Of wheat on. leaving the straw, for in the large
area Of wheat growing sections the straw is not
utilized, In some OF the wheat states of the far
Northwest the ground is plowed in the early
summer and seeded the following spring. 80 that
the ground in wheat this year is not re seeded
until the spring of 1908. making one crop Of
wheat only In two years. Near st. Louis in what
is called the american Bottoms" the crops are
viii be plowed late next fall from which the
wheat has been cut this year and upon which
clover was sown in the spring. This fertilizes
the ground, because the clover makes good
growth BY fall. and in this way they raise pota-
then sown in wheat without fertilizer. Mary
land farmers can profit by this way Of rotation.
After digging the potatoes some SOW turnips or
oats and pillow these down late in the fall for po-
tatoes the following year.
Some of the labor saving devices on exhibition
are manure spreaders, q very valuable and i'm
portant machine on the farm; steam plows, cut
ting eight burrows; riding plows, cutting two
burrows and drawn by four horses and which
could be used with profit on many Maryland
farms, as with it the labor of one man is saved.
The newest thing in mowers is one where the
wheel which drives the pitman rod is turned
with the face of the wheel towards the rod.
This makes the wheel set at right angle to the
way it Is on other mowers. With this device
more power Is gained and never any dead centre
and predict large sale for it.
new threeher on the ''outside" exhibit near
the Palace Of Agriculture Is an acknowledgement
matte self-feeder, an entirely new departure in
that line. Threshers with self-feeding and self
measuring devices saves cutting bands and feed
ing, the bundle being thrown on to an endless
chain table which draws 1t in, heads first, saving
two hands. The grain is automatically measur-
ed in half bushei lots and dropped into the bag,
which does away with the small boys pleasure
of holding the bags at threshing time.
Hay bunchers. drawn by two horses, gather
up the hay and the stacker takes it from the
buncher and delivers 1t on top of the stack. so
that the hay is stacked without any handling by
men except the one on the stack, the whole work
in the field being done by the horses while guild
ed by the man who rides These machines for
gathering and stacking are inexpensive. They
are shown daily In actual use in the moving pic
lures at the Nebraska State exhibit in the Palace
of Agriculture. Here crowds gather daily sew
eral times day to see these pictures Of farming,
dairying and other industries of Nebraska and
the moving pictures show the work as it is being
done. Nebraska, through this MEANS Is adver-
Using itself more than any other state, and it
was by just such means that Mr.. William I.
Amoss wanted TO .'show up" Maryland but could
not do SO. owing to the small appropriation given
him by our Worlds Fair Commission.
Two potato diggers are shown. One thousand
potato diggers have been patented and fortunes
time and again lost in the vain effort to get out
that little row Of potatoes. No digger has yet
been put ON the market that will successfully
dig potatoes in all soils and conditions, yet there
has been a constant effort made by some to sur
mount all difficulties and give to the potato
grower machine to do this work, and it looks
like daylight is appearing for some of the man
ufactures and he who succeeds in this line has
q fortune awaiting him from the sale of the ma
chine, as the largest perceutage Of the potato
thing that seems almost Incredible, but never
theless fact.
Taking the exhibit of agricultural machinery
as a whole it will pay any farmer to come here.
as he will get ideas that will be worth hundreds
of dollars to him in the future If he applies what
he learns to his business. w. II. r.