The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-09-11

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and grass just as they are sprouting
so that we have mighty little trouble
| with them later, if a good seed-bed
has been made, and if there is plenty
of narrowing before the corn comes
up and just after. After it gets up
we'll, We cultivate from three to five
times with a two-horse cultivator,
one man in this way cultivating from
six to ten acres a day; or if he uses
a two-row cultivator, from ten to
fourteen acres a day. We keep this
| I'D until the corn joints, or begins
to tassel; that is to say, until the
stalks get so they would break if cul-
tivation were longer kept up
And isn't there anything you use
a single horse for out here?' l ask
ed Professor Hibbard.
About the only thing We use a
single horse for out here is buggy" ="
was his reply. THE main thing that
troubles the western farmer is that
he can't drive ten horses at the time.
l have driven five"
And the beauty of it is, as l have
already suggested, that the man who
gets the increased results from using
from two to four horses is likely to
do it with even less "hard work. y"
One of the things that would most
astonish a southern farmer travelling
in the west would be the great pro-
portion of farm work done while the
farmer is sitting down.
In the Progressive Farmer few
weeks ago, we printed the story OF a
Kansas farmer who said. ut would
take an expert salesman to sell a
Kansas farmer anything he can't sit
on" A similar story was told me by
Mrs. Nelson when I was at Svea. A
travelling agent with some kind of
improved farm tool went to farm
house when the farmer was away.
The wife was busy, but listened be-
tween the intervals of her cooking
to the agents ecstatic appreciation of
his wares. Finally much puzzled to
know whether there was any merit
in the agents proposition or not, she
exclaimed, Il don't know anything
about it, but I'll just ask you this
question: has it got seat to it? For
if it hasn't, then my husband won't
have anything to do with it,"
Another advantage of using the
two to four-horse plows, cultivators,
and harrows is, that the farm boy ac-
ouires liking for farm work. Near
ly all boys like machinery and like
horses. 1 believe Bishop Kilgo points
out that about the most triumphant
" exhilarating experience of his life
was when he was permitted to drive
a four-horse-team when he was a
South Carolina farm boy. Consider
Hubert Nelson, twelve years old IN
April: he couldn't do one-third as
much hoe work a day as a negro teld
hand would do, but he was driving
four-horse disk harrow when he
was eleven years old; and Mr.. Nelson
told me that either his boy or another
twelve-year-old boy in the neighbor-
hood have forgotten which-has
been driving six horses to triple
gang plow.
How many acres of corn a day do
you cultivate on your farm, using
your two-horse cultivator?" I ask
ed Mr.. A. J. Abbott of Willmar, Min
nesota.
From six to ten acres,' was his
reply. Whereupon my southern as
sociate remarked, Il should hate to
have to trot behind horses going at
that rate"
But we don't trot behind them"
was Mr.. Abbott's rejoinder. eve
ride behind them
And as result of using all the
modern labor-saving machinery, Mr..
Abbott and his two sons cultivate
4OO-acre farm-100 acres in corn,
70 acres in oats, 115 acres in wheat,
and the rest in barley, hay and pota-
toes; 100 cattle (Red Polls,) 60 to
SO hogs, 70 sheep, 400 chickens, II
horses.
Mr.. A. o. Nelson has no tenants,
and doesn't even keep hired hand
except in the busy season on his
12O-acre farm, from which he sold
$1,000 worth of hogs last year. One
of Mr.. Nelson's neighbors said to me:
Il run 24O-acre farm with the help
of my two boys, one fifteen years old
and one eleven, and a hired hand two
months of the year.
But perhaps is may be said that it
doesn't get so hot there in the sum-