The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07
me implements Needed on a Iot'oi
EARN.

expects to pay Tor ever III
Of the cotton, needs d pio" d.
,Ia a,d some sweeps and every
spring needs TO borfoW ~
TO start his crop.
The man who farms in a good rota-
lion and aims to grow not only Ms
supplies. but something OF every sor'
IN cell. will need a variety OF gooo III
elements, and will not need 10 ooIlo"
money in the spring, but VIII nav
pork and beef TO sell, and cash 10 pay
for labor. and the man VINO mas lhi'
and paws his hands every SATURDAY
night in cash seldom has any trouple
in getting hands. Inc man
scratches over a little area himself
and puts his land in patches to ten
ants to crop in cotton, and the tries
10 carry the tenants. generally mas
that the tenants have carried hlm 70
an empty pocket and an enpt
smokehouse. The best way TO aooLlSh
the cropping system is to stop it ana
hire the laborers for wages, n ahen
farm your land in an intelligent sort
of a way, and stop gambling on the
chances with a little dribble OF
o-S-2. but use a good fertilizer In
q more liberal way, and do not mag
Inc that for every crop planted you
must have a special fertilizer
With a supply of good implements
the labor problem will be an easier
one. for you will not need a mar Tor
every mule, but one man for two ana
three. In all the upland clay sections
the first thing you Will need IS a
breaking pillow that takes there mUIeS
abreast. Such a pillow will turn the
soil eight inches deep. Then you will
need two more mules to a subsoli
plow in h fall 70 loosen the earth
still deeper and thus do away with
most of the washing by giving the
rain a place to settle in.
/ had a letter recently from a young
man who formerly was d student OF
mine at the North Carolina College.
He has brought up a rundown rarni
of 165 acres to making a bale Of cot
ton and 40 bushels OF corn IN six
years, and has wisely added to his
mule or horse power by using SIX
horses on the 165 acres. In tn.
scarcity Of good human we must
use more four-footed laborers, more
horses and mules, and especially more
good mares so that We can breed our
own mules.
The best implements for preparing
the land need power, and We must
have the horse power to save the hu-
man labor and make it more effective.
Then you will need a good cutaWay
disk harrow for preparing the land
for small grain, and you will need a
drag harrow that can be set to Sian,
the teeth backwards to make a smoth
ing harrow.
The first essential is to get out OF
the class and get at leas,
two. Any young man of energy car
get another horse, and you can MOI
do good farming with one morse
Then after a while you can get team
enough to make a threehorse team fol
the big pillow, and in the meantime car
use a pillow that two can pull.
The hoe is too costly an implement
to be depended pom for it takes Z
man, and you will never need a hoe
in the field if you start early with
smoothing harrow and weeder, and i
the cotton is planted in hills, there
will be little need for chopping.
For the cultivation of the hoeG
crops o will need and w,
must have the horsepower to star
with the smoothing harrow and tn
weeder. With these you can ge
over the land so rapidly that you viii
never be caught in the grass. and viii
never need to put a ploW in to cover
the grass In the rows, for the earl,
use of the smoothing harrow anc
weeder will prevent its starting there
l would put a grain drill anon
the essentials, and Of course a fan
ming mill to clean small grain 70,
market or seed. The disk harrow
and the smoothing harrow are ais,
esentisal to good work The drill
and mill can both be part
nerShlp machines with one or wv,
~neishbors. Then, of course, you viii
want a good cotton planter, and i
seems to me that a machine that vii
drop the seed in the hill Will be tn
best.
If the garden truck is planted il
long rows, the two-horse cultivate
Will come in there very handily an,
In small enclosed gardens the hand
wheel cultivators are very efficient
me market gardener will find it al
advantage to plant many things il
close rows, such as onions, and ther
h hand-wheel c~ultivators are es
sential.
Then for sowing wheat and oats an,
peas You will need a disk drill. Thi
VIII pay for itself in one crop owe
sowing and narrowing ir
by putting all the seed in at q m;