Year: 1861

AnOlner very important point Is that
by drilling the planting can follow the
plowing, instead of waiting until
whole field is plowed narrowed ana
marked of. Here, then, is a continu-
Gus advantage from the beginning, and
which cannot at this time be overlook
ed, if we have any regard to the pro-
fits Of eorn-growing. Under this pro-
cess we think four workings are better
than FIVE under the old. We cannot
put this difference at less than FIVE
cents on the bushel, which at the pres.
ent selling price is no small item, if
corn will barely pay at twenty-five
cents under the two-horse system
that is, we would rather grown corn
for twenty cents, under this new plan,
than twenty-five under the old. When
corn was worth fifty cents, the profit
was so large that it could be worked
with almost any implement and yet
prove satisfactory, but now when it is
selling below cost, one of three things
must occUr-a rise in price, the cheap
ening of its culture, or an abandon
ment of the crop for commercial pur-
poses. OF the two-horse cultivators
we have already large variety of
patterns, all of them more or less
valuable; some of them with seats for
riding, some to be guided with lever,
and others in the ordinary way of cul-
tivators. None that we have seen
come up to what they should or will
be.


We have one with rollers to crush
the lumbs, which we look upon as a
valuable feature, but the cost of it and
the imperfect manner of its construc-
ton viii not allow of its general use.
With this cultivator we can work any
drilled crop, however small, when the
land is in good order, doing better and
more work with two horses than by
other mode, and still we would not
recommend it for the reason given
too complicated, too expensive, and
too frail. Its first cost was fifty dol
lars, full twice what it ought to be-
The rollers, the cultivaTors, and the
shoe to protect the young plant from
being covered with clods and earth are
all properly conceived; but the ar
rangements of the parts are all wrong,
lacking cheapness, durability, and ease
of handling. The skayering knives
that formed part of the machine, we
have laid aside as useless; the guiding
apparatus, which was cumbersome and
leable to get out of order, has been
abandoned as unnecessary, and we
would strip the thing of all its expen-
sive gearing, place the cultivators on
a solid frame, to run on cast rollers
like the sections of a common field
roller, say not over two feet in dame
ter. No farmer who cultivates eighty
acres should be without good cast
roller; and as these are made in Sec
tions of foot each, two of these
sections would make admirable pull
verizers to proceed the cultivators,
and thus lessen the cost of the imple-
ment. What we want is cheap we'll
constructed implements. They must,
in the first place, be simple in their
arrangement, not liable to get out of
order, and be made strong and durable
A large portion of our implements are
worthless from these defects. It is
time that we had a change; in fact,
as the price of corn compels it, in
regard to cultivators, inventors and
makers will thank US for pointing out
the necessity of change in this re-
speet. So far as we can learn, the
number of any particular form of the
two horse cultiyators made, has been
limited. no one being willing to risk
large amount on the experiment until
their practicability was more thorough
ly tested. This is now settled in their
favor, and we will now see who will
get up the best and cheapest one
One of our neighbors had an old wheat
cultivator made for the purpose of
putting in wheat. The wheels were
some twenty inches high, with an ap-
paratus for lowering and raising the
teeth. 1t was made for two horses,
and contained seven teeth. He took
out the middle tooth, fastened com
mon chair to the frame, on which he
rides, and drove it into the corn field
at the rate Of eight acres day, doing
most excellent work. As machine
for cultivating wheat, it was of little
value, bat for its new application it
viii rank among the first, for its adap-
liability and strength.-IAinOis Farmer