The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-24
The LONG kGO.
DIFFICULTIES UNDER WRICa
RaRaERs USE ToFARM

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And the Great Improvements IN Farm.
ing Implements In Recent
Years.
Every man seventy years old Was
conten poraneous with the intrcduc-
tion ct agricultural implements to
which might properly be sppisd tSa
word mproysd." In otnsr wor1s,
when he was baby there were fsS
places where farmers were stsrlrg II
open-nouthed wonder st tne nyslei-
ious things thst had come cus. Ihes
were crude as compared VIII W2au ">
have now bus nsiksd the beginning
OF that most marveious deVelopCent
In which they and tLeir kind have
been the principal factor. Up to 1887,
all ststeS was1 o. tha Alegas3ies :.o0
nesrly all sections Of the oGnsrS, ~s1@
still using The old wooden p:oW, .
very clumsy sfSI beside the On77i
Chilled and tie wsougls iron pos :
point, nisshap5c thing With osa'
" rounded point 80 pne end aao 9
large hole OF socket, s5 tne o5ns1' -
tended to recsIve 3 sort OF ossn ~
which the pow oouia Ds putiou =.
euideo. This was the psEloa U -
spnning-wheel and log caoin, W.
creased paper Windows, "hsn VIC p.o
near could stand In DIS oooi WY SoS
pleasant morning and Shoos seuHists
anouon for the family o1esAlsSa' Wiz
o1,e Iesvtng bis track5. In fact, sne
,,on1Iatton depended fsr nors on 1or-
- vil6 snirsls tor al income tisn
1non cuIriYsaion u TIE grou1o. AS-
Scnlture wss little more than rude
gardening or truck patching AID what
little No manufacturing Was cone vas al
together by hand. Sucn wSs tie un-
promising beginning OF an ess, which
In the regular lteline o. msn has &C
complisheG the wonoerS We sae osIoIa |
as on every farm. It Is i2Csresuing &C
note that the State nussums which !
contain samples OF the crude izp2e
meoss Of the late th!rSies, Label theM
'ancient," much as they would mark
IN Egyptian mummy, though q nan
who has not passed the pSAmlsu's
limit Of three score and ten wcuo
hardly feel conphmentso Il SO char
scter.z;d. Though sonsuhing then
thought to be improved" wss bcoughs
into the west ss early as 1887, TIE
really revolutionary farm machinery |
yss not introduced until much LATER.
A msn much younger thsn seVsnty, |
in fsct men still in the 6f5ies, have
covered By their lives the epoch-nas'
ing period OF agricultural machinery.
The difficulty prior &c 1850 was not so
much Lack Of invention IS lack OF
manufacturing facilities, practically
all agricultural implements up to thsa
time being made by hand IN small:
way by local mechanics In the east
It was not until after the civil waf
that increase in manufactures With
their increased power snd specially
invented tools that the modern fArn.
ars sres began.
The student Of evolution will frd
an interesting field BY following up
the Inventions o. agricultural mach
cry from the beginning. The gress
law so brilliantly expoundeo by Dar-
win and which he proved to be the
governing principle in al worldly ST
fairs, the law OF gradual growth from
small beginnings, the law OF orderly
development from the simple to the
complex, is found here operating IN
full force. Take tor instance the FIST
invention Of q reaper; WHICH appeared
in Great Brilian IN 1927 and was re-
produced in thus couo Try 3 few yearo
lster. It's main principal Was che re-
ciprocating knife oevwsen reaper fng.
ers and though greatly improved in
details since, 1n1S cardinal feature,
which was found to DO fun6aments.
and Indispensable, has been eaoociea
in all succeeding types Of hay sno
grain-cotting machines. Ii was sns
same way with the plows, harrows,
threshers and all othsr implements
one main prtncirle must DO adhered
to, however great tie variety Of os.
tails and Improvements to NEST OBJ.
jecttcns Of en- Incidental character,
such IS too much weight. faulty con-
strUction, difficulty Of handling aId
the like. The Ih:esher was long con-
ing. Though invented over seventy
years ago, roe G. ff sulaieS OF msnufac
turing prevented Us gsreral introduc
tion unsil q comparatively recent per
iod. It was not until the Ocoern
facilities for turning cut scores o.
hundreds Of finished machines daily
became common that the reproduction
Of al the lS1ge machinery on large
scale made them familiar on every
farm. Carrying out the idea Of evo.
luton, it nay be remarked that the
first patent fer 8 thraaher, though is
sued In 1880, was a crude affair,
though it developed into the magnih-
cant machine OF To- day which contains
the principal Ct tie original. The hcst
effort, however, resenbled the inprcV
ed thrasher OF the present Gay shout
as much as the ola. fashioned hano
pIinllng- press resembles one Of the
great perkecting prcsses II one Of cur
trsu-elasS printing Cthces. Farmers
had to await the coming Of the i'm
proved Ghrsshec before t1ey let so TIE
old. fashioned fall, made OF q long
stick and short stick Tied together,
and the process CT srarping opa the
grain By horses. Many man still llv,
ing renenns1 thsss primitive meth
ods just ss they remember when the
tree branches wss the only harrow
used and when the sIike-tcoth har-
row, shaped ike cspllst s, was con
sidared 2 greal improvement.
The chief value Of recalling al this