VOL. XLVIII. 
NO. 2o7o. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 28 , i889. 
PRICE, FIVE CENTS. 
$ 2.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1889 , by the Rural New-Yorker, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.J 
MR. TERRY’S FARM IMPLEMENTS. 
S OME weeksago’theR. N.-Y. promised 
its readers a picture of the tools in 
use on Mr. Terry’s 50-acre farm. This pic¬ 
ture will be found below, at Fig. 239. We 
have been able to secure an excellent repro¬ 
duction from the photograph sent us by 
Mr. Terry. It is an excellent picture—one 
that will cause a good deal of thought and 
discussion. It is an apt illustration of the 
wonderful possibilities of photo-engraving. 
The picture tells more than a book of print¬ 
ed matter ever could tell. The R. N.-Y. is 
happy to state that it is in position to make 
use of all the great resources of photo¬ 
printing. This picture is but the beginning 
of a series that will open an entirely new 
field for agricultural journalism. Mr. 
Terry describes the picture as follows: 
‘‘The picture does not show all the tools 
I have, but those I have used or shall use 
/ this year, and which I would buy again if 
starting anew. The location is in the road 
and in one corner of the lawn. Beginning 
in the.road, to the right hand, you see first 
our big wagon, with three horses attached, 
and a load of potato boxes on it. This is a 
view of the rig just as it looked when I re¬ 
turned from the cars last fall, after taking 
up a load of potatoes. You will notice a 
folded canvas on the boxes, that will cover 
the entire wagon to keep off rain or sun; al¬ 
so the umbrella which has sheltered the 
writer while riding many a month. You 
will get a little idea of the size of this 
wagon when I tell you that there are 72 
bushel boxes on it (not all I have by any 
means). There are bolster springs to go on 
when needed. 
In front of the wagon is the buggy ; back 
of it are two hay-racks, an extension ladder 
that will open to 35 feet, the wheel-barrow 
that takes manure out of the stables and 
the land roller, which is partly hidden. 
Next come a pleasure carriage, a smaller 
wagon, a grindstone, the Kemp manure- 
spreader, which I have used about eight 
years, the little Buckeye low-down binder, 
wagon and carriage poles, mill to clean the 
seed wheat and clover, and a horse-dump 
rake. I have many a time drawn 66 bushels 
of potatoes in bulk on the small wagon. 
The side-boards on both wagons are porta¬ 
ble—they can be taken off or put on in 
a minute, while they make the wagon able 
to carry a large load without its being very 
high to load into. They are home-made 
and have been in quite constant use for 
many years. 
In the gate-way may be seen my Em¬ 
pire drill. This seems to me to distribute 
the grain more evenly than any other im¬ 
plement I know of, and that is the impor¬ 
tant point. To the left of the carriage road 
is our old fast friend, the Eureka mower, 
and a pair of the largest size Oliver chilled 
plows. On the walk is Breed’s weeder, a 
very light smoothing harrow, which we used 
twice this year after the potatoes were up. 
It cultivated two rows at once and hoed 
them perfectly at the same time, going 
over seven acres in five hours—a valuable 
little tool for clean, mellow soil. In front 
of it stands a Planet Jr. potato-digger sent 
here to be tried, which I did not intend to 
have in the picture, although it may prove 
worthy of its place. Before it are our 
scales, a pail from our earth-closet, which I 
may speak of at another time, and the bar¬ 
rel on wheels that takes the slops away 
from the kitchen. This latter I told about 
last year in the Rural. 
There is behind that barrel a pretty little 
flower bed filled with samples of small 
tools. In the rear of it stands the best po¬ 
tato-digger on earth, so far as I know. It 
is the Hoover. It is well made and will do 
the work perfectly, the only objections be¬ 
ing the cost and power required. 
Next come tillage tools. In the fore¬ 
ground are two Thomas harrows, next an 
Acme, followed by a Cutaway and plain 
disk. On top of one Thomas harrow stands 
our little Cahoon seed-sower, which has 
been used 20 years with great satisfaction. 
By the side of the disk harrow stands an 
Aspinwall Potato-planter—one of the most 
perfect tools I have. I have no grain-drill 
yet that puts in wheat as evenly as this 
does potatoes. Next comes the new Bicycle 
cultivator, for narrow rows. It is the only 
riding cultivator I ever saw that I could do 
satisfactory work with in the potato field. 
You see it is up to the times—it has not 
only a spring seat but a canopy top! In 
front of the sulky cultivator are two Planet 
Juniors, with narrow 1%-inch teeth. On 
top of one you will notice a little harrow 
This is a home-made attachment to the 
cultivator for use in strawberries partic¬ 
ularly. The teeth and teeth standards are 
taken off the cultivator and this attach¬ 
ment is bolted under side. It makes a prime 
little harrow-toothed cultivator that will 
not track. It moves the soil close to straw¬ 
berries without covering any leaves or 
runners. 
The picture of the horses is not fair to 
them at all. I do not think I would know 
them. After taking five negatives we gave 
up getting a fair picture of them with the 
GROUP OF TOOLS USED ON T. B. TERRY’S FARM. From a Photograph. Fig. 239, 
