Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1908 — A Word for Oar Farmer Friends. [ARTICLE]

A Word for Oar Farmer Friends.

A manure spreader is a sure remedy tor hard times. Every wideawake farmer will plan to make up some of the losses sustained by reason of the ruinous slump in prices of farm products last fall. Osre of the easiest and surest ways to do this is to Increase the QUALITY and QUANTITY of his crops. The farmer who had a spreader year, and used it, got -as much again MONEY out Of the use of the same amount of manure as the man did who had no machine and spread the old way, and as a matter of oourse he had much more GOOD CORN. In short, the men who had spreaders and used them are about the only men who have good corn tbiß year. Investigate this assertion and it will be found to be true.

That barnyard is the best crop producer, when properly applied, none will dispute. That machine spreading produces best results none but the uninformed will. deny. Buy a manure spreader, it will increase your corn crop 50 per cent in QUALITY apd 33 per cent in QUANTITY. There are very few machines paade with which you can know what you are spreading to the acre. This feature is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE. With my machine you know EXACTLY what amount you are spreading. If you want six loads, set the lever, and you get SIX, NOT EIGHT. Any of the machines will spread TOO MUCH, very few will spread TOO LITTLE. After spreading by hand almost every new beginner, being used to seeing the manure so thick on the ground, puts on too much by machine. This is a

fatal mistake! You buy the machine •o that you can turn all the manure Into corn, hay or grain the year you spread it. THAT IS WHERE IT MAKES YOU MONEY. To do this th* manure must be spread THIN and THOROUGHLY torn to pieces. One hundred loads—and most farmers have more than that—pf manure spread wirh my machine will put enough on 16% acres of ground to double a grass crop, or to add from 10 to 20 bushels of corn to the acre, and ALL of good quality. This rame 100 loads if spread by hand would not cover more than four or five acres. A big increase from 12 acres is therefore obtained by using a machine over hand spreading and with the SAME amount of manure and half the labor and time. Buy a manure spreader for cash if you can, on time if you must, while they are sold at the old price. I sell the best spreader in Rensselaer. Come in and let me prove it to you.