Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-05
THE FAIRS WANDERERS.
Devices for r1aking Farming Life of
 Ease.

St Louis, Oct 5.-When we were on the farm we bought garden seeds by the package or quart. But the twen- tfeth century gardener and farmer is going to buy them by the yard and in- stead Of labor1ously dropping them ill hills or sowing them in rows be will reel off string of them from a wheel and simply plant the string. When John was let into this secret of ad- vanced scientific agriculture by the pc lite and loquacious inventor of the pro- cess he merely murmured, You're str3nging me-"
 But there were the strings of seeds and there were boxes with tiny plants growing in them from the seeded strings. Like everything else at this great exposition the demonstration left nothing for the imagination. The whole process was shown. The seeds are twisted within a ribbon of tissue pa per and rolled up on little reels holding about sixty feet As usual, the most Interesting feature of the exhibit is the mechanism by which the product ds turned out. Tn this case the ma chine is marvel of ingenuity. On one side is a reel of narrow tissue pa per ribbon, resembling that of a stock ticker. AS it unrolls it passes over q
 
 steel pins. These dip into liquid glue as the wheel revolves and make little dots at intervals upon the passing pa per. To these moist dots the radish seed, or tuTnfp 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 pa per over to enclose the seeds, twists it into d string and winds 1t upon pasteboard reel To plant the string there IS a little long-handled wheel which the gardener pushes up and down the garden and which uncoils the string. laying 1t in furrow and cov- ering it with thin, smooth layer of dirt It is easy to see that the wind cannot blow the seeds away while you are sowing them and they are also safe from marauding birds.
 Everything in this palace of agricul- 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 be able to bring forth bountifuI crops without the exposure and the expendi- ture Of physical energy incident to farming in the early days. Here is an automatic time feed box for horses which enables farmer to lie in bed q s long as he wants to in the morning. At certain hour a. clock unloosens a intcla and ration of grain runs down from a hopper in front of each horse. While the stock is being automatically fed the farmer may read his morning newspaper delivered at his door by the rurnI mail carrier.
 Everything on the farm Is to be done by machinery except the household work Of the farmers wife see no nechanigms that will enable her to cook the meals and operate the house. hold machinery by pushing the cleo fTic buttons. And yet some of her work has been frightened and simplified. Here are machines for separating cream from the milk and butter 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 a long. laborious process. The reason household work is not q push button affair and life of ease John says is because men have had nothing to do with it. And the farm CT no longer walks. He rides. Every thing seems to have wheels on 1t. There are manure spreaders corn planters, hay leaders and stackers, drills, pea pickers potato diggers, ' great steam blows, wind pumps, self binders, all tending to make farming q delightful pastfme
 And in addition to 1t all the great est display of fancy, highly bred live stock ever brought together in the world. Tn the live stock pavilion we saw what seemed to be an endless pro- cession of prize-winning Herefords, Jerseys, Guernseys, Polled Durhams, Holsteins, Aberdeen Angus, Ayr shires and other fancy breeds of cat tie. Some of the prize winners were literally covered with ribbons, tro- phies of past conquests And yet I doubt if anyone thinks of great live stock show, the greatest ever held, in connection with the worlds fair.
 T. A. D.