The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-29
Machinery on The Farm.

Machinery on The Farm.
 The following from Tha Southern RuraIist contains some vfry sooo advice:
 There is nothing on the faSnn tc.1ay which pays a larger prodt jn tn9 r,Cnev invested than modem imr rcved to, is. The man who tries to farm with nothing but single stock is h?nFi- capped from the start, and VIII never pet ahead until he reaches the noin where he can begin 70 a"du're t'' necessary implement for his proi es'oE
 machine which will pay for itselt over the firt year, which will pay from 100 to 500 per cent on ne inves'- n mt, is certainly worth pueehasinS
 There isn't a successful bu 'tnces rien in the city to-day who i$oulI hesitate one minute on such p"Hr 1si- tion. In fact, the successful busii ess nan would not hesitate to m?fe an investment in labor-saving macnincry if he knew it would save him ten per cent. What we farmers neen to teali1 is that our farming is 0 1T business, and then run it on business prii ipals. When a business man Kn ''Ts that n certln improvement will pay him 90 Ter cent or 50 per cent or 100 per cert rl oft, he makes 1t even if he has bcrrow money to do 1t, for such an ir rvestment will soon pay back the money many blIneS ONSis
 Now we do not advise You to go ln debt indiscriminateIy for every new ma chine that comes along whicf some one wants to sell; but we do advise YOU to unhesitatingly by all means rrocure the tools necessary to do your york to best advantage. IT you run one horse farm you need, besides yoIr single stock, a onehorsc tIrn blow, straight tooth harrow a corn and cot diafrfhMfnr horse cuItivator. a weeder. and one- horse mower and hay rake.
 With these tools you should be able tU do such good work and so much O. ir that you will soon be in position u purchase another horse an1 tun two rorse farm. You will then be a5lc to de much of the time instesd O. walk. With the advent of the horses many more tools will be needed. 4 two- horse breaking blow will tur1 your land deeper, and with a cutaway or disc harrow, a smoothing harrow, and a roller you can put it fin such fire condition that the yield per ac:e will Le much larger. You will also need d two-horse cultivator, in addition tc ycur one-horse tools.
 When you will reach this point you will soon be able to purchase another animal, and then comes the three horse dIsc blow which will tear up Ian that before you could not touch. You will now need a grain drill if you SOW much wheat, and your crnos of grain will be so much heavier that you will abandon the cradle in despair at ever cutting 1t by hand, and oIrchasc a reaper at once. Your large crop of corn calls for a shredder, and the shredder needs an engine which will also run your feed cutter, pum1 your water and cut your wool And all these pay a big profit when properly managed and cared for. You can now employ more help at a prJtit, have Q for eman to superintend lIde: vour directions, and have time .or yourself and family to live like folks.
 If you are a gardner you need many more tools. including hand seed drills and single and double wheels hoeG But the gardner also needs the heavy tools to fit his land In fact they gre q necessity, for vegetables need the very best of preparation 1t is pos sible to give.
 And the further you clint up a'Ong this road to success the easter ,0ings go and the greater the croft, fof mother earth appreciates good treat ment and will yield a bountiful re- tuGn.