The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-27

that you could succeed with ginseng
in Louisiana. 1t may possibly thrive
in cultivation in the high mountain
sections of North Carolina, Tennessee
and South Carolina where the plant
Is native. But so far as I have OBJ.
served, all the 0 that has beer
made by those growing the roots has
been in selling roots and seed for 9TH
er people to plant. When some Of the
growers have matured a crop and sold
the dry roots on the market it will be
time enough to talk about the profit
in ginseng growing. Certainly, in al
the warmer sections Of the South it
Will be useless to plant it. The plant
has no intrinsic value whatever. and
its value on the market entirely
from the fancy of the Chinese hat it
is good incidentally, and they prefer
the wild roots to the cultivated ones.
1 would rather see our people grow
ing food crops
How Time Is Wasted and Work Made
Hard.
| have often suggested tina a great
part Of the farm human labor can be
saved by using more four-footed labor
and less two-footed. One-horse plows.
cle-horse c~ultivators take each a
man. A man with two or three horses
to a good plow can break more land
and DO it better than any one man
with a single horse and a pony pillow.
q man riding on a tWO-horse cultiya-
tor can do as much work and do it
better than three men each with q
IloW and q mule.
a man with a good Weeder can
rapidly go over the ground n pre-
vent the grass from getting a start
etWeen showers, While the man who
depends on Single-rOW implements
Will get caught in the grass.
Inc farmer who plants cotton with
a dropper at regular distances does
not need hoe hands to chop out, and
" man with a hoe is the most costly
need Tor a hoe in the cotton or corn
held II the proper implements are
used.
Go over the cotton and break the
crust with smoothing harrow. and
then follow with the weeder and YOU
can get over it three OF four times
:" ME the One-rOW man is getting
over once, and in the springtime it is
very important to kill the grass be-
fore 1t takes a pillow to do it. A turn
ing ploW in a cotton o. corr field is
an implement out Of place, a costly
artcle that does more damage thar
6ood to the crop. The mar who la
b~orlously bars. off his corn and then
goes again to turn the soil back is
o"4.iAS Nd4udUIe L1Ile and labor and
dong little good to the crop.
The man VIC loads up his n,anure
IN a "agon and hen forks it off into
lttle piles to be spread later is hand
ing the manure three times while he
could have loaded it on a manure
spreader and left it spread in less
time than it took to throw it off in
piles, and it Will be spread a great
oeal better and will go farther than
any one can spread by hand.
The man who makes his family go
a hundred yards to a spring to get
az the family water is imposing on
MS wife and family when by q little
efort and expense he could have the
water in the house,
Inc ma who neglects to provide
plenty of well-seasoned wood for the
kitchen stove ahead of time is also |
imposing on his wife and making
labor harder.
The man who expects his wife to
RAISE the vegetables for his eating |
ana that, too, with only a common hoe
is imposing on his wife and does not
deserve to have one.