The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-04-15
MUST SAVE ON LABOR.


Using the Largest Amount of Labor
Saving Machinery Possible If they
Desire to Make their Farms Pay
Nowadays-Some of the Labor Saw
ers Sold this Season by Payne s.
Graham
Other things being equal the farmer
who will make the most money in Shia-
wassee county this year will be the one
who makes use of the best labor saving
machinery. The times are good and la
Dor is well employed. This is all right
for the farmer for the simple reason that
the men who are getting good wages
and are well employed, so well employed
in fact that it is hard for him to hire
any of them, are the men who are going
to buy more heavily of the goods the
farmer has to sell and are going to be
the means of helping keep the price of
farm produce up where it is profitable
to the farmer. That consideration how
ever will not help the farmer put in his
crops, cultivate, or harvest them. But
there are more machines than ever this
season which are designed for the express
purpose of enabling one man to do the
work which season o. two ago took two
or more men to do A wise selection from
these machines as said above, will enter
more largely than ever into the deter
mining of the relative profits which Shia-
wassee farmers as we'll as others will
make during the coming season.
In looking through the lines of farm
machinery carried by Payne & Graham
of this city the other day number of
labor savers were noticed which no
farmer who wishes to make his farm
pay the most possible this year can af
ford to be without AS the first work
in the spring is usually the plowing and
narrowing or dragging" as it is often
called, the first question naturally arises
as to the possible improvements in these
lines. AS a general thing plow is a
plow with most farmers. This may be
true, but this firm has sold the Syracuse
plow and found it has given such good
satisfaction during the years they have
sold it that they have respectfully de-
clined any offers to handle other lines.
In the matters of harrows however they
have had still greater reasons for stick
ing to the same line of implements
which they have been handling for some
years This is especially true of the new
Planet Jr. disc harrow With this harrow
the manufacturers claim, and with evil
dent reason, that one man can easily do
the work of two. A heavy team, or four
light horses, and one man can produce
results heretofore considered impossible
for less than two teams and two men.
The harrow works the soil to greater
depth than usual and with great thor
oughness.
The Deere planter for both corn and
beans is another big labor saver. The
model they are selling this year will plant
either corn or beans in rows both way
so that the hills may be as close together
as % inches i'll one direction and 30 in
the other. They can also be set to vary
the distances in the two directions up to
a distance of AZ inches, having the rows
of the same width in both directions or
not as one wishes. An extra chain is
all that is necessary to cover this greater
variation in width of rows. The same
machine will drill in either corn or beans
if that method is preferred, The labor
saved in getting in either the corn or
bean crop with one of these machines is
scarcely realized by any farmer who
has not seen one at work. Another
great saving, after the crop is up and
ready for the cultivator, is found in a
new model of cultivator which will har-
row the soiHon both sides of two rows
instead of one row as the old style does.
Here again one man and one team will
do just about as much work as two men
with two teams will do with the ordi-
nary style of implement.
When it comes to harvesting the crops
however, and the time for some of the
crops to be harvested is not so very far
off after all, there are some more labor
savers which no farmer can afford to be
without. Particularly is this true of
the Dain and the Dayton side delivery
rakes. These rakes are sold at price
which, while somewhat greater than
that of the old style. nevertheless makes
them by far the cheapest in the end.
They leave the hay neatly piled in long
windrows in the best possible shape for
hay loader to pick it up without W aste
of either hay or time. But the most
surprising thing with reference to this
form of rake is perhaps the economy
with which it handles beans. Men who
have used it for this purpose claim that
with it one man can do the work in
handling beans which most farmers are
in the habit of employing from four to
five men to preform. The hay loader
itself is fast becoming necessity on