The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-08-30
MACHINES CAN TAKE
PLACE OF FARMERS
Demonstration at Fair Grounds Evil
dence of That-Hundreds See
Implements.


lease men on the farm who can pull
triggers of guns on the firing line
Also, men who already have de-
serted the farm for the cantonment
aren't coming back. anyway soon,
and it takes 10 men on the farm
to keep one man alive in the
trenches. Machines Will solve The
problem of man power, providing
enough food and feed to keep the
armies and their live stock in tip
top condition.
This was the lesson carried home
by the delegates of the Cotton States
Merchants Association yesterday
when the closing days exercises
were held at the Tri-State Fair
grounds. 1t was a school of prac-
tical work, participated in by nine
implement dealers, the merchants
association and the Commercial APP
| peal. Probably 1000 persons at
tended the sessions and saw what
svaing could be made in men, in
craese done in work and saving in
seeds and time gained by the use
of modern machinery on the farm.
On exhibition were:
A disk harrow, a pulvcrizer, a
lever harrow, sulky disk pillow, sui
ky NOW board pillow, spring-tooth
harrow, grain drill.
SOME PRACTICAL LESSONS.
Here are some of the lessons
brought home to the visitors at the
fair grounds.
a siXfoot disk harrow can work
from 10 acres to II acres of ground
a day. AS narrowing is work
that must be done by machines
horse or tractor drawn. there is no
method of comparing the efficiency
of man to a machine. An eight
foot disk harrow can get over from
IL to 16 acres of land a day. The
advantages of narrowing soil are
known to any farmer who ever has
put in crop. Harrows have been
in general use on large number
of farms for the last four or five
years in the tri-state territory.
A pulyerizer, an implement viz
tually unknown in this section. can
get over on an average about Is
acres of land a day. In the opinion
of the best agriculturists of The
country, you might as we'll build a
home without a kitchen or a bed
room as to try to operate a farm
at a high state Of efficiency with
out a pulverizer. Here is one rea-
son, enough in itself to recommend
a pulverizcr:
When land is prepared for wheat
seeding, unless a pulyerizer is used
it requires on an average OF 80 days
to let the soil settle before 1t is
fit for sowing. In less than an
hours time the field that has been
prepared with a packer is ready
for sowing. The saving of 20 lays
and 20 hours is no small item in
itself in these days of making each
day count
PACKER FOR COTTON. TOO
But the packer is not an nipple
mcnt alone for the wheat or other
grain farmer. 1t is just as valuable
10 the cotton farmer as it is TO the
grain grower. In preparing the
soil for seeding it plays a part Just
rs important as it does for grain,
nd it has this advantage:
Suppose, after cotton plants have
got up to some height, a severe rain
comes which packs the soil 50 Sc
yarelv that crust is formed over
the ground This crust might as
&c., re class or cement, for all the
good it does to the plant. The roots
Of the plant are cut off from air
nd the moisture of the air IN
edition, if the puIvcrizcr was not
sent over the ground when the |
land was prepared, the soil below
the surface has been cut off from
he moisture 20 be taken into the |
olant from the soil by capillary at
traction.
A pillow cannot be sent up around
the roots of the plant, because to do
so would be to cut the tcndrils and |
kill the plant. A cultivator would |
be cquilly useless because of tear !
ing up the stalk, But here the pull
vorizer goes over the ground, breaks
the crust, never touches the stock
and has absolutely no injurious eff
feet upon the roots. pulycriacrs
have just come into favorable at
tontion in the south, though they
have been used in the grain coun-
tries for years.
A lever harrow (eigbt-fooD such 4
as the one demonstrated yesterday
is capable of getting over from IS Il
to 20 acres Of land day In the II
grain states Iowa, Kansas and Ne
braska-a 24-foot lever harrow is
the size generally employed and