The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-10
ONLY ONE TWO-HORsE Pillow.

ONLY ONE TWO-HORSE PLOW
Inc farmers are breaking land for wheat-sow-
ins now ana as have been SO persistently urging
the use Oh more two and three horse plows to
take the place of one-horse affairs in the South I
was interested yesterday in finding out what kind
OF plows the progressive, prosperous Nebraska
farmers use. And have to confess that though
Travelled several hundred miles and saw many
hundred acres of newly-broken earth, saw only
one two-horse pillow all day long.
What them" you ask, do these enterprising
Western farmers you have been telling us about
do they break land with one-horse plows?"
Certainly not; said that saw only one two
horse pillow yesterday, because all the others that
| saw were three or four-horse plows, the farm
er riding while the broad. black burrows opened
swiftly behind his big. sleek, quick-stepping
horses. For one-horse pillow or a one-horse wag-
on, looked in vain all day, and the solitary two
horse plow that l was able to distinguish clearly
there may have been two others in the
distance that couldn't make out), was in use in
blowing garden! And do wish our Southern
farmers could think enough of their brain, their
labor, and their time not to frtter it away on out
of-date implements and one-horse equipment
Westerner talked with last night had the idea
that our Southern farmers are indolent, whereas l
believe they do much more sheer, exhausting ply
steal labor than the Western farmer: the Western
er makes horses and machinery do more of the
work instead of his muscles. With their three
and four-horse plows and their two-row cultva-
tors they tell me that farmer here will cult
vate 100 acres in corn, the big job being to husk
it before snow flies" Husking is done in the
field the thrown into a wagon, and the stalks
left for the cattle to Craze.
A DREAM THAT FAILED.
After few hours travel we leave the rich
belt OF eastern Nebraska behind us and come to
the section where the main dependence is in alfalfa
Gods greatest gift to Western agriculture-and
9th md how fnr 10 foad inD aud
further reach the drier plains broken by
beautifully rounded hills. One of these sentinel
hills, with its wide outlook over the grassy prairie
yesterday brought to mind almOSt-fOrgOtten
story of Indian buffalo-hunt in old Holiness
Third Reader, and almost fancied that should
see on its crest blanketed Indian waving the
signal that buffalo had been sighted and hear the
war-cry of on-rushng braves eager for the chase
and just then our engine turned corner and
there indeed break on the landscape. but it
was not the Indian of history and romance, but a
twentieth century American girl in twentieth
century American autombe OF course, TWEEN
tieth century American girl is worth whole tribe
of red men, but confess should rather have seen
the Indian just then! But the day of his free
dom and of his wild hunting races across the
untenanted plains has gone irretrievably as the
days of the Iliad and the Odyssey!
BUT THE WEST is STILL UNTAMED.
Let not the reader suppose, however, that the
West has become efete merely because the auto
mobile has taken the place of the buffalo. The
mettlesome Western horses and their picturesque
ly attired riders still in evidence from the
cars; we frequently pass the old-time covered
wagons; Mexicans and Cinnamon give variety to
the human species; we have but recently passed
near Buffalo Bills ranch at North Platte, and
there is sign at the depot where stopped little
while back offering a reward Of $4,000 each for
three desperadoes who less than two months ago
, robbed a mail train at of the stations on
our route The disregard Of Sunday by carpen-
ters draymen, merchants, and others, is another
avidance of primitive conditions and little later