The farmer and mechanic., 1911-02-28
PROF. MASSEY'S VIEWS

= 30 IF these and the cutaway FORM
of disk is, in my opinion the 80
True it takes a good team ana Is
not the implement for the one-no.s
nar,,ar Put the man who has energy
anongh to get out Of the one-horse
class will find that the cutaWaH DISK
will greatly increase his aD hty TO
prepare his land in time. Iheh the
disk is all that is needed 10 prepare
land for small grain after corn. KUN
ming lightly, SO as not 10 CUT .oo
deeply. and going over and over tlii
the surface soil is made fine, it will
make the best possible preparat on
for seeding wheat or oats The OIL
ing device may be the weak point OF
the disk, but the neglect OF oihhs
well all machinery used on the Iarin
is the weak point of most or tn
farmers. Many valuable machlhes 90
not live out half their days because
Of the failure of those who use them
10 attend to the oiling.
poor Economy. Fox is
ght in regard to the proper pre-
paration Of the land for peas anu
SOY beans. Narrowing in these aI0er
plowing is poor way, for many Will
mot be covered and some covered
! deeply. 1t pays to. get the seed in at
enough better to pay for all the extra
labor in preparation several times
over
The Cotton Pscker.-Through the
j attention OF DR. Charles Dabney,
president Of the University Of Gin
cinnat l have received a bulky pam
phlet telling about the Price-Camp-
bell cotton picker. From this it would
seem that the successful cotton pick
| ing machine is actually on the mar
| ket, a stiff propelled r1achine that
not only picks cotton, but with other
attachments cuts the stalks, pioWs the
ground, harrows it, and cho.>S out the
cotton to a stand. And it is claimed
| bv great list ON prominent men
who have seen It work that it gath
| ers the cotton clean and does not in
t lure the unopened bclls. If this ma
chine will do all that is claimed for
it, it will certainl" reVolutionize the
cotton-growing industry. It is claim
ed that it will pick as much cotton
! one day as 20 or 80 men can pick
by hand Mr.. Rhoads, Of Vernon.
Texas, says that he picked rows l.
100 yards long III 81 minutes. Il
|really looks as though the South at
last has q machine that can compare
with the reaper and binder of the
wheat growers. One man operates
the machine that picks as much as
twenty hands. l hooe that the state
m ents are true. and the testimony
fof hundreds who have seen it work
are very impressive.
Long Leaf Pine Stumps-I would
say to Mr.. j. Lewis Lee, that l have
never seen stump puller that will
handle large 1ong-leaf pine stumps-
They have such a long tap-root that
is very hard to twist them out.
I found that the best way to get this
sort Of stumps out is to dig down
lalongside of them and start q fire.
iThey all have a fat heart. and once
lit gets on fire, it will burn out and
can then be eakily removed. We
}took out great many in this way
Iyears ago on the experiment grounds
lnear Southern Pines, n. c. We paid
!$S an acre to the men who removed
the stunps.
Two Horses and One-My own
opinion about what the man with
itWo-horse tenants reports is that
mere cotton cropping with either two
horses or one is not what is needed
What we do need is permanent ten
ants with not q lly horsss enough
but means and disposition to farm
fright. A tenant cropper with two
horses and double the area, merely
to crop the land in cotton is but q
little Improvement on the one-horst
cropper. He saves some human
labor and does the work better bu
. merely cropping the land in sale
lcrop is not what the South needs
1T needs tenant farmers who vii
farm n systematic way and in
crease their crops not because Of
more horses. but because Of intelli
gent farming.
Value OF College Trainine-It ii
well said that the benefit Of a col
, lege course in agriculture does no
come from the learning how to dc
the everyday work OF the farm
, though even in that it will be help
, but in learning to have a reason fol
everything done. and do get ava,
, from the haphazard guess-work O
: the so-calied ..pract ciI' farmer wh<
: is often the most impractical Of en-
It is the why and the wherefore tina
f a man gets at college that puts hin
ahead Of the man who gueSSe. a
: facres. guesses at crops and guesSe.
, at everything he does, who studie:
; the moon and the signs rather thar
accurate preparation of the soil aaf