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THE ILLmOIS FAKMER. 



165 



Now any sane man who has used a 

 two-liorse cultivator will say that to 

 plant in check rows is entirely useless 

 in the after culture, if not a decided 

 damage, from the fact that we cannot 

 plant as fast as the ground is plowed. 

 Under ordinary circumstances we are 

 satisfied that a fourth more corn can be 

 grown on sixty acres put in as fast as 

 plowed and rolled, over the old mode 

 of plowing the whole of it before plant- 

 ing so as to check-row it. This added 

 to the $24: saved in labor, is no small 

 sum, or rather it is a large per centage 

 added to the old mode in the profit of 

 corn • culture. The invention of the 

 two-horse cultivator has made a neces- 

 sity, or permitted a corresponding im- 

 provement in planting ; and we predict 

 that in one or two years, not a planter 

 of the present plan save as Brown's can 

 be sold, but that all corn planters must 

 and will be attached to field rollers. 

 This year the land is very cloddy in 

 this part of the State, and the subject 

 of rolling is attracting no small share of 

 attention, so much so that we know of 

 several paying thirty dollars for drum 

 rollers where they could get good cast 

 iron ones for fifty. Many farmers, in 

 fact most of them, profess to suppose 

 that a roller of a ton weight, whether 

 of wood or iron will do the same work, 

 but such is not the case — the one packs 

 the soil while the other grinds it to 

 dust. 



Before another planting season we 

 hope to see a perfect implement of this 

 kind with which to do our planting. 



With the land rolled and the clods 

 crashed, the corn comes up much soon- 

 er and more even, and will need at least 

 once less working. There are no clods 

 to roll on the yOung blades from the 

 action of the cultivator, and the sur- 



face being smooth is susceptible of be- 

 ing cultivated some days sooner than 

 when the surface is left rough. ' 



The man who furnishes a good roller 

 and planter combined wiU find a ready 

 sale, for it will revolutionize the system 

 of planting. 



A glance at the result is suflScient to 

 convince any person of the advantage 

 of such an improvement, and such a 

 one the farmers will have, for at least 

 half a dozen minds are busy in its solu- 

 tion. The rollers we have used for the 

 last three or four years is the best adapt- 

 ed to this work of any that we have 

 seen. The planter and gearing to drive 

 it made by Mr. Craig, and with which 

 he is putting; his large crop of com is 

 all that is desired. A little more and 

 the plan is complete. Then comes the 

 question, who will do the manufactur- 

 ing ? "Will some of our present manu- 

 facturers of planters see to it, or will 

 they blindly adhere to their own pet, 

 while the world jogs on, and corn plant- 

 ing and its culture is made easy by 

 some plow jogger? - ' 



The Wine Plant. 



That the fools are not all dead, is a 

 fact patent to a certain class of opera- 

 tors, who have time and again demon- 

 strated that they "still live." "Were 

 they all dead these worthies would have 

 to betake themselves to some honest 

 calling, by which to eke out their con- 

 temptible lives. "We had supposed 

 these fellows had all turned sutlers, or 

 army contractors, but it appears that 

 there are a few more of the same sort 

 left, just to show that the tribe liveth. 



It is well known that New York 

 boasts of its free schools, its industry, 

 intelligence, refinement and high social 

 position, and that the county of Otsego, 



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