| Show REA rex REAPING rearing PINc FARMING upon invitation from bra S IV W richards and joseph cain elder W woodruff and indulged in in a trip to Farin farmington hirton on the dinst to witness the operation of micks micka reaper and mower owned by richards and cain it wasat work in charge of mr mowery rapidly and smoothly cutting 0 wheat in swaths six feet wide after carefully examining the movements of the machine and the ground leapt over but one head was found not cut neither was the grain thrashed by the operation it is said that irwill it will reap on an average twelve acres a day and we could not perceive how grain can well be cut any cleaner or to any better advantage a though thong tah it is quite possible that a method wi will 11 be devised devise d for better delivering the grain from the apron but even as now raked off by the person on the machine all the grain can be saved by reasonably careful raking and binding thrashing machines bome some with separators 1 and two or more with fans are becoming quite plenty but it appears to be very difficult to arrange 0 a machine that thrash thrashes eswell well weil in the states so that it will thrash equally well the different varieties qualities and conditions of grain to be found here even with moveable moveably move able concaves concalves con caves and the best of feeding it does docs happen that a machine either fails to thrash cleany clean or breaks the kernel much study and pains have been expended to avoid these objections and it is presumable that the well known skill of our oar mec mechanics hanks and others will be able to overcome the difficulty and that machines will be so constructed as to thrash clean and whole in going 0 and returning we ne observed that several fields were entirely too large for the skill capital and labor I 1 of the owners or if that is not the case still there is a screw loose somewhere were it not so weeds would not be buffered suffered red to usurp the place of grain and vee ve vegetables e as they now do in far too many places neither would hay be raked into slovenly heaps and left for dys and perhaps weeks and then tilen be pitched into stacks and ricks full of hills bills and hollows tilling more ground than can be properly y managed and curing and putting up hay in such a manner that it is of little or no eare such unwise applications of means time and ano anc labor that a better system cannot be adopted adoptee too soon A small piece of ground will amply supply the wants of an avera average CL e sized family provided it is rightly managed vand and a proper subdivision will admit the benefits ben befits and safety of populous neighborhoods while the soil can be enriched en riche instead of being impoverished and fields be tilled like gardens |
