Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — A Word for Our Farmer Friends. [ARTICLE]

A Word for Our Farmer Friends.

A manure spreader is a sure remedy for hard times. Every wideawake fanner will plan to make u| some of the losses sustained by reason of the ruinous slump in prices of farm products last fall. One 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 last year, and used It, got as much again MONEY out of the use of the same amotmt of manure as the man did who had no machine and spread the old way, and as a matter of course 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 this year. Investigate this assertion -and-lt will befound to be true. That barnyard manure is the bes| 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 com crop 50 per cent In QUALITY and 33 per cent in QUANTITY. There are very few machines tirade 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 land 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 so that you can turn all the manure into com, 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 tom to pieces.

One hundred loads most farmers have more than that—of manure spread with my machine #lll put qgough on 16% acres of ground to double a grass crop, or to add from 10 to 20 bushels of corn to m* acre, and ALL of good quality. Thlh same 100 loads if spread by hand would not cover more than four or five acres. A big increase from U 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 yon.

C. A. Roberts.

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