076 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



used by H. C. Campbell in his system of soil culture. He calls it a "sub- 

 surface packer," because it packs the subsoil; yet it leaves the surface 

 loose and thus prevents evaporation of moisture. 



My men always harrow what they have plowed before they unhitch 

 at noon or night. A neighbor does not follow this plan, and last spring 

 when he had finished plowing a forty-acre field he found it was so cloddy 

 the harrow made little impression on it. He didn't see how he was going 

 to get it in shape to plant, but borrowed our clod crusher and soon had 

 the field ready for the planter. 



He said he didn't know what he would have done if it hadn't been for 

 that new fangled machine, the use of which he said was worth $5# jto him. 

 It enabled him to cover his mistake. It is the only kind of a roller I would 

 have on the place. 



WEEDKKS. 



The Hallock weeder is the poorest kind of a tool for a poor farmer. It 

 is a good tool for a good farmer, but it must be used with lots of judgment. 



One of my farms was one of the worst and weediest farms you ever 

 saw when I bought it. There was a velvet weed wherever there was room 

 for one to grow and then cockleburs in between. The cornfield was green 

 with velvet weeds before the corn was up, but with the weeder everyone 

 was killed. The Hallock weeder will knock velvet weeds every time, but 

 it won't knock cockleburs, because they are too low down and strongly 

 rooted. 



You can't use a weeder unless you get your seedbed thoroughly pre- 

 pared. The ground must be very fine and loose and you must use the 

 weeder just before the weeds get in the dew of their youth, just as they 

 are a-bornin'. 



A weeder will not work when the ground is wet. Start it after the 

 planter and keep it going whenever the ground is dry. You will have to 

 stop when the corn is coming up, but after it gets about three inches high 

 go into the field after the corn dries off in the morning and you can kill 

 weeds by the million, and do it so easy, too. Don't pay any attention to 

 the corn at all. It will be dragged down, but it will raise up again all right. 



Thirty acres a day can be gone over with a weeder. Last spring part 

 of our corn was laid by with a weeder and it stood the dry weather better 

 than any of the rest. With a disk plow, disk roller and Hallock weeder 

 corn can be produced at 6 cents a bushel ready to harvest. 



SIDE DELIVERY HAY RAKES. 



One of these machines is an admirable substitute for a tedder. 1 

 wouldn't buy a tedder and an ordinary hay rake, but a side delivery hay 

 rake, especially if I was going to use a hay loader. It kicks the hay out 

 to one side, making a continuous windrow. Two swaths can be thrown 

 over on the net swath and then the two on the other side thrown back on 

 it, making five swaths in a windrow. 



