Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1908 — MODERN IMPLEMENTS. [ARTICLE]

MODERN IMPLEMENTS.

Maks It Possible For the Farmer to Dispense With Extra Help. The scarcity of help on farms may ultimately drive landowners to greater economy and to a more general use of devices and conveniences which lighten the work. It is surprising bow many aim to get along by muscle power alone, never trying any other method, which might save half their work. An old farmer says that his neighbors called him laxy when he first brought a hay his farm, and when he rigged up ,a cable and used a trip hay fork to unload bis hay he had • crowd of neighbors around him, "just to see bow it worked.” The economical and up to date farm er counts all of these labor savers just that much of bis equipment, and it is only by using them that he is enabled to meet present conditions. The walking stirring plow and walking cultivators are back 'numbers. Now the sulky or gang plow is used, and three big, lusty horses will turn over three or four acres a day. A manufacturer has got out a rotary harrow, which is attached to the plow, and the land is turned and harrowed at one operation. If any man is justified in venturing money it is the farmer when he invests it in up to date tools and implements for more rapid and better work on the farm. Early Tomatoes. A truck gardener tells that this is the way he raised early tomatoes: He took a dry goods box 2 by 3 feet and eight inches deep. In each corner of the box be set a 'piece of two inch pipe, so that be could water the plants from the bottom, pouring in the water and letting it permeate through the soil, which was composed of a sandy loom put into the box after the bottom had been covered to the depth of three inches with well rotted and sifted stable manure. The seeds were planted and lightly covered and the soil kept moist, but not wet. In one week after planting the green tops appeared, and tn three weeks they were transplanted into a similar box. being set an inch deeper than they grew in the first box. They, grew in the box in sheltered places for three weeks, when they were ready for the garden. Savoy Cabbage. Savoy leaved cabbages are largely used in Europe. They are marked by a peculiar fine crumbling of all the leaves, particularly those of the head. They are generally of better table quality than common cabbage, more tender, finer in texture and of more delicate flavor. The plants are better able to resist cold, but do not give so large a yield of heads, and the beads are less solid and canpot be handled so wejl as the more common sorts. Subscribe for The Democrat (