JUNE 19 
Circumstances Alter Cases. —“One thing 
is certain, obstinate controversy is seldom pro¬ 
ductive of large yields.” says Conrad Wilson 
in his Station Record. “Fifty bushels of 
wheat per acre, or a hundred bushels of corn, 
though possible under right conditions never 
result from clinging to a prejudice or delu- 
as to sow a large or small quantity as desired. 
There is also an agitator moving very slowly 
in the hopper which prevents any possibility 
of arching. At Fig. 212 is shown the spring 
hoe—an important improvement furnished 
with a solid rubber spring. 
in the use of thrashers to investigate the mer¬ 
its of this machine. 
men of the “Invincible” separator herewith 
represented, is a 36-inch cylinder designed ex¬ 
pressly for 6team power, having extra length 
and extra rakes of shaking fingers. The firm 
also build another machine, with a SSJ-mcb 
cyliuder. to be operated by steam power, and 
two others, one with a 27 and the other with a 
& 30-iuch cylinders for horse power. The separa- 
f'.} tor is constructed diverging from the cylinder 
!. to the discharge end. a feature which with 
§ the circular top, allows plenty of room for the 
* straw to be well shaken up on its way to the 
stacker. In the steam machine the separating 
pan is 51 inches wide, giving, with the great 
length and extra rakes, ample separating ca¬ 
pacity. The. pan is cut into two equal sections 
(Fig. 213) each of which is operated by two pit¬ 
mans attached to the double crank shaft Thus 
they work one against the other, and this al¬ 
ternate motion of the two sections produces a 
counterbalance that relieves the separator 
from much of the 6train. 
The front section of the pan is swung directly 
2k under the cylinder, and. the concave being 
perforated, a large amount of grain passes 
through and is separated in the very operation 
WIND-MILLS 
The waste of time and the hard work are 
by no means all the objections to hand-pump¬ 
ing. Every intelligent farmer knows that 
neither the boys nor the hired help are always 
reliable, and the old gentleman himself is 
sometimes tired or absent from home in the 
evening; the stock are neglected until next 
da 3 % when the eattle, almost famished, fill 
themselves so full of cold water on a winter’s 
morning, that they stand and shiver for hours ) 
to their great injury; and if water is any con¬ 
siderable distance from the yard in brooks or 
springs, in severe weather they will not go 
for it until very thirsty; when the results are 
the same. Every stock raiser also knowB that 
cattle are more or less uneasy, and become un¬ 
ruly when not well supplied with water, and 
are continually breaking through Inclosures, 
damaging crops, and straying from home in 
pursuit of it. 
An artificial pond, in warm weather, soon 
becomes offensive and filthy, and cattle that 
are forced to drink of it or die from thirst, be¬ 
come subject to disease, while it is a well- 
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LAND MEASURER.—FIG. 215. 
Last season we illustrated the new force-feed 
principle of this drill, and since then over 
6.000 of the new drills have been thoroughly 
tested in practical farm work in all parts of 
the country, and in all cases they are reported 
to have given entire satisfaction. 
HOPPER, SECTIONAL VIEW.—FIG. 211. 
sion. One man may astonish us with the 
yield he gets by plowing three inches deep, 
while another gets a result equally magnificent 
with ten inches. Yet if the two cases were re¬ 
versed, both cropB would be failures. Each 
of these men is right for his own locality and 
conditions, but not necessarily right for an¬ 
other man, or another farm This has been 
so from the beginning, and will be so till the 
end of time.” 
Zinc Collar Pads. 
Of the many answers we have received to 
our inquiry about the above device, in the 
Rural ot May 29. we have room here for only 
a couple, which, however, may be taken as 
fair specimens of the rest. 
S. L., Sharon Center, N. Y., Says:—“That 
zinc collar pad iB all it is said to be. I have 
tried it with satisfaction on ahorse. The neck 
has healed; and the mane is growing again, 
although the horse is used every day." 
R. H. C., Orleans, Neb., says:—“ Five years 
ago, while ‘ freighting on the plains' Jerry’s 
neck became so sore that he could graze only 
on asidebill. I gave him a zinc collar pad and in 
in a few weeks bis neck was entirely well, with¬ 
out having been idle a day. I discontinued 
its use, and the soreness returned. For the 
past four years I have not allowed him to be 
harnessed without the pad, and he has not 
had a sore neck for the last four years, and 
that is all I know about the zinc collar pad.” 
SPRING HOE.—FIG, 212. 
known fact that milk and its products are taint¬ 
ed, if the cows are permitted to drink from such 
reservoirs There are many farms in the coun¬ 
try where a good wind-mill would prove of 
value. Among many such is the Halladay 
Standard, made by the U. S. Wind Engine 
and Pump Co., of Batavia, Ill. 
In England if butchers deal in bad meat they 
must expect to get into trouble. A butcher at 
Brighton, says the Agricultural Gazette, was 
a few days ago sent to prison for a month with 
hard labor for having unwholesome meat in 
his possession. A portion of the stuff had 
been manufactured into sausages and sold to 
another butcher, who is now in prison for hav¬ 
ing disposed of them to customers. The sen¬ 
tence is unusually severe, but the Bench ex¬ 
plained that they had determined to put a stop 
to the traffic in diseased meat. 
of beiug thrashed. A beater is placed close 
to the cylinder directly in the current of the 
grain and straw, causing a stoppage of the 
entire mass, which then drops down upon the 
first set of rakes or shaking fingers, so that 
by this immediate agitation of the straw at the 
cylinder, the separation is begun at once, and 
is fully completed before the straw is delivered 
to the straw-carrier. The lower or rear pan 
I is perforated, and, acting as a riddle, keeps 
the shoe free from straw and much other mat- 
THE BUCKEYE GRAIN DRILL 
For more than 23 years this drill has been 
before the public, and in that period its repu¬ 
tation and sale have extended over the whole 
country. It is made by the well-known Messrs. 
P P. Mast & Co., of Springfield, Ohio. The 
new drill brought out by the same enterprising 
firm last season, has proved a great success 
both as a plain and combined drill. In this 
connection we herewith give illustrations of 
their new land measurer, which is a new de¬ 
parture in laud measures. This is placed in 
the end of the hopper (Fig 215); but is so in¬ 
cased as not to be distuibed by the grain. It 
indicates the acres and portions of acres sown. 
In Fig. 211 i6 showu the hopper bottom of the 
corubiued grain and fertilizer drill, with the 
grain, fertilizer and grass 6eed sections. A, 
represents the wheat or grain hopper; B. the 
hopper for fertilizer ; C, the grass seed hop¬ 
per; D. pitman connection; E, the agitator 
arm; F, the agitator with pin moving over 
the belts; G, galvanized bottom with openings 
over the belt; II, wheat or grain feeder and 
enp ; K, spont or conductor from wheat hop 
per; L, spout or conductor from fertilizer 
hopper; M. leather belt for feeding fertilizer ; 
N, spout to which rubber tubes arc attacked; 
P, grass-seed feeder; R, slide for regulating 
Though rather late to be serviceable the 
present season, we commend the following re¬ 
marks of Professor Beal : Agriculture is 
a pretty broad field to work in, and if a 
man expects to carry on all 
branches of it in one establish¬ 
ment successfully, he will aw a- 
ken sooner or later to a great 
disappointment. Some thing or 
things must be made special- 
ties. Nowit is a question in my 
mind justhow good a vegetable 
garden a farmer can afford to 
have. If he aims to make 
one as good as his neighbor’s, 
who is a market gardener, he will very prob¬ 
ably fail in some of his main farm operations 
sufficiently to neutralize the success of the 
garden test. My impression is quite in accord 
with that of the essayist (Mich. Pom. Soc.) 
when he indicates ihat the i armer can afford 
to do pretty well in the garden what he 
can do by horse-power. The garden of the 
farm can be made to furnish the larger part of 
an excellent living for the family 
at a slight expense, if deftly man¬ 
aged ; hut most farmers do not 
seem to know how. They 6eem to 
think the garden must be a piece 
of ground set off and dedicated 
to this purpose forever, to be shut 
in by a high fence, to be entered 
by a small gate, to be ornament¬ 
ed with beds of short rows lifted 
up higher than the general level. 
Perhaps this notion is an imported 
one from some country where land SISh 
is high and horses are not, at any 
rate it does not apply to us. aud I 
commend to the farmer a system 
ol loug rows which can be attend- 
ed to by a horse and cultivator like 
any other farm hoed crop. When 
onee such a plan as this is adopted ^I==^3 
the garden will not be called an 
expensive luxury, and making gar- 
den will not be the dread of the 
year. 
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RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS 
Illinois. Edwardsville, Madison Co., June 
5.—The wheat crop prospects here are finer 
than for years. The acreage sown is about 
25 per cent, more than ever before known. 
As our farmers uow have the self-bindiug 
harvesters they have crowded every avail¬ 
able piece of land with wheat, leiviug hardly 
enough for corn, etc. We have just begun 
harvesting here. Corn looks well. Oats 
are very short, owing to the dry season. Fruit 
will be a full crop. Apples and peach trees 
are overloaded. Berries and grapes look well. 
Strawberries are just ripe—a large yield and 
fine berries. The Army-worm has made its 
appearance in different parts of the county; 
but too late to hurt wheat, I think c. p. b. 
III., Ludlow, Champaign Co., Juue 5.—Un¬ 
til about the middle of May farmers hereabout 
had little to complain of save one or two vio¬ 
lent and destructive downpours 
of r&iu, aud corn planting went on 
vigorously, but a period of hot, 
showery weather followed which 
so hindered the work that proba¬ 
bly as much has been planted dur¬ 
ing the last two weeks as during 
the first half of May. That first 
planted has generally received the 
first plowing, aud the stand is on 
all sides reported good. It was 
feared the wet period had injured 
wheat aud oats, but the weather 
at present, cooler aud dry, is fa¬ 
vorable. Potatoes promise well 
—few beetles. There is unusual 
freedom from insect pests. Straw¬ 
berries and cherries are abundant 
and ripe, worth from eight to 10c. 
per quart, retail. Apples are not 
as abundant as the profuse bloom 
promised. Late corn planting 
and a prospective early harvest 
will make the next six weeks a 
SEPARATING PAN 
ter liable to clog the sieves. The shoe, placed 
directly under this rear pan, has a 6trong blast 
and abundant sieve room, and is the most ef¬ 
fective now in U6e for cleaning the grain. A 
folding straw-carrier in two sections is fur¬ 
nished in lengths to suit, and can be adjusted 
to any angle while in motion. A novel feature 
of the straw-carrier is the device for regulat¬ 
ing the run of the carrier belts, keeping each 
aiKER-co 
INVINCIBLE 1 BRASHER. 
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Jnhslrial Implrmritk 
THE '‘INVINCIBLE” THRASHER. 
The Invincible Thrasher, a cut of which is 
here presented to our readers, is made by 
Roberts. Throp & Co.. Three Rivers, Mich. 
The wide popularity it is winning is a well 
deserved tribute to the mechanical skill and 
persistent efforts of its manufacturers and 
patentees. Having spent nearly a life-time 
n studying he needs of farmers aud thrasher 
side in line one with the other. Thrashermen 
have been annoyed a great deal by the tendency 
of the carrier belts to “climb,” as it is termed, 
and this improvement will be appreciated. One 
of the most striking features of the entire ma¬ 
chine is the improved elevator which carries 
all the tailings through a closed chamber up 
an inclined plane outside the separator, with¬ 
out angle or shake spout, direct from the tail¬ 
ing spout of the shoe to the cylinder; so per¬ 
fect 1 b its operation that sticking aud spilling 
are entirely avoided. But space forbids any 
more extended description of this excellent 
thrasher. We advise all our friends interested 
the quantity of fertilizers; S, iB the point 
where the fertilizer is discharged from the 
belts. 
The fertilizer and grain hoppers are com¬ 
bined in a double hopper; both grain and 
fertilizer passing down through the hoes are 
deposited together in the ground. The method 
of feeding the fertilizer consists of a series of 
endless belts carried by two shafts on which 
are a series of small pulleys—the whole being 
placed in the bottom of the hopper. The fer¬ 
tilizer coming in contact with these belts is 
carried back and dropped into the tubes, the 
quantity being regulated by a parallel slid e> 
busy season for farmers. “ G.” 
Iowa, Viola, Liun Co., June 7.—We have 
had heavy rainfalls for the last week, wash¬ 
ing out in : ome places to the disadvantage of 
the railroads but not of the crops as yet. The 
rains came in time to saTe the grass. The 
weather had been very dry through April and 
May, more so than usual. Oats and coru look 
well for the season. If the rains will hold 
up long enough to enable the farmers to head 
the weeds in the corn we are pretty sure of a 
good crop. I did not get my Ennobled oat 
sowed as soon as they should have been, but 
they are branching out nicely. Two of my 
AbieB Sibirica are up. None of the rnagnoj 
