The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-07
WHAT l SAW IN THE MIDDLE VEST
CT ARE NEE POE.

&c POE. II
iect is almost the same. if you can use two horses
pfohtaoiy and are content to use only one
we need to double the number of horses in III o
South. Here in Wisconsin they make busbe, of
corn with half the labor we have because thew
use twice the number of horses. All the 1ong
way from Chicago to Madison across this great
farming section of Illinois and Wisconsin haven't
seen single one-horse pillow among the scores and
hundreds OF two and three-horse plows. and
IN TACT. II man started breaking land with ono
morse out here. he would be laughed ont of tho
country. The other farmers would not be more
amazed II he should start out to cut wheat with
his grandfathers sickle
nave never seen. outside the pictures such
beautiful horses blowing as saw on the wav from
Chicago here yesterday-big, splendid beautiful
Percherons. sweeping along almost rhytbmica,1v
the rich. mellow soil crumbling swiftly behind
them In long. deep. straight burrows Usually the
horses were two abreast. but frequently there
were three or four great, gentle well-kept fellows
'hat IL would be privilege for anybody to sit be-
mind shouldn't have much respect for the far
mer boy who wouldn't be prouder to plow team
of these beautiful animals than to he somebodv
eises hired man in town or to measure calico at
'ome ofoss-roads store And when we get more
u 'hem down South every grown-up farmer too
VIII ieei more pride in his business. Incidental
~ let me say. we must begin to breed more for
farm work horses instead of coach and trottins
types.
more two-horse plows. cultivators, harrows
weeders, etc..-and even three and fourborsa IN,
PIGMENTS and machinery and more and beav,er
NURSES 10 operate them-this is what the Soutb
must nave before we can compete with these
Northern and Western farmers Thew arc mok
ing crops cneaply because most of the work 10
done by cheap horse power instead OF exnens;ve
mana labor, and We no more keen IN with
them while we depend on hoes. hired hands. and
ohe-horse plows than you can keep up with a
rival wood-cutter II he uses a sharp axe and Won
dull Ratchet.
Mind you. have nothing but the best Of good
wishes for the one-horse farmer. NV own fatb-
er. might say for several years n one-borse
farmer But what We wish to do, Mr. One-Horse
Farmer Is to help you become a two-horse farmer
because you are working too hard with only one
horse for the returns you get The Western
farmer can beat you as long as you do It, and that
you don't want
But the pitifullest case of all is the man who
mas TWO or more horses and yet is content to
throw away his opportunities by using only one
morse Tools heard OF a Southern farmer the other
day who had six one-horse plows going In single
held Six plowmen hired to do the work that
three with two-horse plows would have done
and they would have done it better than the one
horse plows were doing 1t, too!
Coming up through the South on my way here
ana In other recent trips through half-dozen
Southern States from Virginia to Arkansas I have
been delighted TO see that more than twice as
many two-horse plows are now In use as were seen