The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-30
VIII Be Life OF Luxury and Ease
Says Little Egypt
AT THE WORLDS FAIR
WONDERFUL IMPROVEMENTS BE.
ING MADE AND EVERYTHING
WILL BE DONE BY MA.
cHINERY. EVEN COOK.
ING.


ST, Louis, Sept. 29,--When we were
on the farm we bought garden seed
by the package or by the quart Bui
the twentieth century gardener AM
farmer is going TO buy them by the
yard and instead of lahoriomsly drop
ping them in hills or sowing them IN
rows he will reel sOff string Of them
from wheel ana simply plant the
string. When John was lei into this
secret OF advanced scientific agricuF
I ture by the polite and loquacious in
4 ventor OF the process he merely
Z murmured You're stringing me.
He says now he is going To buy 4
I quarter section in the drainage dis
triet as soon as we return home ana
i SO in for scientific farming
4 But there were the strings Of seeds
d ana there were boxes with tiny plants
growing in them from the seeded
I strings
d Whole Process Shown.
u Like everything else at this great
i exposition the demonstration left
nothing for the Imagination The
+ whole process was shown. The seeds
H are twisted within a ribbon OF tissue
II paper and rolled up on little reels
4 holding about sixty feet AS usual,
! the most interesting feature of the
Il exhibit is the mechanism, by which
H the Drdnct is turned out In this
! ease the machine is a marvel Of inge-
nuity On one side is a reel of mar
row tissue paper ribbon. resembling
/ that of stock-ticker. As it unrolls ii
! passes over a wheel that is set with
little projecting steel pins These
dip into liquid glue as the wheel re-
wolves and make little dots at inter
walls upon the passing paper. To
these moist dots the radish seed, or
4 tnrnip seed or any kind of seed that
is desired adheres, the spaces be.
4 tween the dots being determined by
the kind OF seed that is to be planted
4 The machine then folds the strip OF
/ paper over to enclose the seeds, twists
/ II into string and winds 1t upon II
/ pasteboard reel. To plant the string
there is a little long-handled wheel
which the gardener pushes up ana
down his garden and which uncoiIs
the string laying il in furrow and
covering ID with a thin smooth layer
of dirt. II is easy to see that The
wind can't blow these seeds away
while you are sowing them and they
are also safe from marauding birds.
Farming in the Future.
Everything in this palace of agr,.
culture Is calculated to impress one
with the fact that the life of the flu
/ ture farmer is to be life of ease Il
/ he doesn't operate the entire farm
with electric push-buttons he will at
( least be able To bring forth bountiiul
crops without the exposure and the
expenditure of physical energy Incl.
/ cident TO farming in the early
1 days, Here Is an automatic time feed
box for horses. which enables a farm
er to lie in bed as long as he wants
TO IN the morning At certain hour
| clock unloosens a latch and a ra-
/ ton Of grain runs down from a hop
per in front Of each horse While n.
stock is being automatically fed tho
farmer may read his morning Bulletin
delivered al his door by The rural
mail carrier
Everything Done BY Machinery.
Everything On the farm is to b.
done by neutrality-suspicious. the house
hold work OF the farmers wife. see
NO mechanisms that will enable her
TO cook the meals ana operate the
household machinery by pushing cleo
iric buttons And yet some of her
work has been lighiened and simpli-
fed. Here are machines for separat-
ing cream from the milk and butter
from the cream. The farmers wife
doesn't have to wait for cream 10 rise
20 the surface and then ~churn" the
butter cut of II by a long Iaborious
process The reason household work
is no. a push-button affair and a life
Of ease John says is because men
have had nothing TO do with il. And
the farmer no longer walks He rides.
Everything seems to have wheels on (
H. There are manure-spre4ders I
corn planters. hay leaders and STACK
ers. drills. pea pickers potato dig f.
gers. great steam plows. wind pumps.
seif-hinders. all tending 10 make farm .
ing a delightful pastime
Live Stock Display.
And In addition to il all the great /
est display Of fancy. highly bred live 4
stock ever brought together in the /
world In the live stock pavilion We 4
saw what seemed TO be an endless (
procession OF prize-winning Here /
fords. Jerseys Guernseys. P0lled Dur. /
haas. Holsteins. Aberdeen Argus. I
Aryshires and other fancy breeds o. 4
cattle. Some Of the pTize-winners (
were literally covered with ribbons
trophies II past conquests. And yer
] doubt IN auv one thinks of a great