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Sweep Rakes in the Hayfield 
Tt nsed to he said that the Western 
farmers would have to imitate the East¬ 
ern people in their intensive methods. 
Some vears ago, at a banquet of big 
cattle Incn in Texas, a newspaper man 
created a great laugh by telling those 
cuttle barons thfUt ‘‘the man with the 
hoe” was looking over the wire fence at 
them, and wiould drive them o(T the 
range. What he meajit was that garden¬ 
ers and .smaller farmers would before 
long settle upon the land which was 
used for pasturage, and make so much 
of it that the cattle would be driven 
further back. The cattle men hooted at 
this idea of the man with the hoe, but 
that character worked in, and all along 
the Gulf Gbast gardening and intensive 
farming has become a great business. 
Now comes the rever.se proposition, and 
the We.stern i)eople are saying to the 
Eastern farmers that they must adoi)t 
some of the methods which enabled the 
West to avoid extra hand labor. 
The Agricultural Department has is¬ 
sued a bulletin on “Harvesting Hay 
with a Sweep Rake” which is in line 
with this suggestion. Most of our East¬ 
ern farmers seem to believe that the hay 
must be lifted from the ground to a 
wagon, and then lifted off again into the 
barn or .stack in order to do the job 
right. Formerly this was all done by 
hand. Then came the hay-loader and the 
horse-fork, transferring a part of this la¬ 
bor to live stock. On the big Western 
farms the sweep rake has been brought 
into play, and this simplifies the work 
still further. , 
A couple of pictures of this rake ai’C 
shown herewith, and another picture 
shows how it is oi)erated. The rake 
simply consists of long wooden teeth al¬ 
most flat on the ground and pointed at 
one end. They are fastened to a strong 
framework at the other end. The point 
of the tooth is often tipped with a steel 
cap to prevent its wearing out too fast. 
The teeth are usually about eight feet 
long and placed one foot apart, so that 
18 teeth give a width of 12 feet. In 
operating one horse is hitched to each 
end of the rake, and driven into the hay 
as it lies on the ground. The teeth slip 
under the hav and push or gather it into 
a bunch. From 500 to 1000 pounds 
wilt be bunched up in this way and the 
hay is hauled from the swath direct to 
the stack or barn without putting it on 
tho wugon, or it iiiny bo used to bunch 
up the hay into big windrows. There 
are various kinds of these rakes, some 
running flat on the ground without 
wheels, while others are fitted with from 
two to four wheels, so as to make them 
run easier. 
The 'MTestern people who use these 
sweeps on large fields say fhey get a 
reduction of 50% in the cost of han¬ 
dling the hay either to the stack or 
barn. Where the hay is put into a 
stack the hay is bunched on the sweep 
and then driven directly up to the stack. 
There ' ■'s luit on a stacker, which is 
another ...achine worked by horse power 
to carry the hay up, turn it over and 
dump it on the toj) of the stack. 
In old times in New England we have 
seen farmt'rs when short of labor and 
in a hurry pulling hay to the barn on 
a rope. The hay was bunched, a num¬ 
ber of cocks being thrown together, and 
ropes fitted something like a hay ring 
will work under the bunch and fasten in 
front, then a horse hitched to the front 
pull the whole thing right over the 
ground into the barn. In showery weath¬ 
er this 7 >lan enables the farmers to get 
their hay under cover much faster than 
when they fork it on to the wagon and 
then fork it off again. __ 
The Second-crop Seed Potato 
A number of our readers have asked 
for further information about the second- 
crop jiotatoes which are being largely 
used in the country south of Philadel¬ 
phia. We may quote from a letter just 
at hand from a fanner in Hoiithern New 
•Tcpsgv • 
“I have in cold storage at this time 100 
barrels of certified ('<>bbler seed which I 
got last year from Maine. I also have 25 
barrels (if second-crop seed v/hich I grew 
myself last year in order to test the two 
si(le. by side. After the first crops are 
out, ill late .Tuly or early August, we 
shall work up our land and jilant these 
storage potatoes, just as we would our 
crop in April and May. They will have 
good culture. We spray the crop and 
care for them as well as we can, so as to 
keep the vines growing until they are 
killed by frost. In some cases whei-e they 
are jdaiited by the middle of .Tuly, when 
the season is moist, and we also have a 
very late frost, this seed develops into 
full vsize, .so that 't would be suitable for 
marketable potato(‘s. As a rule these 
full-sized tubers are not as good for seed 
jnirposes as where the vines are killed by 
frost befoi-e the tubcu-s are mature. We 
dig them all up, even to those the size of 
little marbles, as even tho.se little ones, 
if .sound, make good seed the following 
Soring. One objection to this .second 
crop seed is that it does not start off 
growing quite us quickly as the Northern 
seed. For this reason many of the grow¬ 
ers in Virginia do not adopt them en¬ 
tirely. These growers count on the earl¬ 
iness of their potatoes, and the Nortluirn 
seed will start quick<!r and probably give 
marketable tubers some days earlier than 
the second-crop seed. The latter, how¬ 
ever, will usually give a better stand, 
and probably a larger crop. Personally 
I think it is bett(*r for us to use the 
Northern (K!ed in storage for our plant¬ 
ing, but some of the New .Tersey growers 
claim that they obtain even betP'r results 
by storing the second-crop seed of good 
size. I am not sure that this plan would 
be safe to follow year after year, as it 
seems to me a w'ise thing to change seed 
at least occasionally. Unque.stionably, 
however, there is a future in the i)roduc- 
Four-wheeled Sweep Rake 
tion of this second-crop seed, and its 
planting will steadily increase through¬ 
out Southern New .Ter.sey. It will mean 
much to us in many ways, both in a 
saving on the purchase of our seed, and 
in the introduction of a new business 
for our section.” 
New York Limestone 
We have nearly every day letters from 
New' York farmers asking about ground 
limestone. Most of these letters ask 
where the limestone can be bought to th(( 
best advantage With such a bulky pro¬ 
duct, naturally the best place to buy is 
the nearest crushing plant. There are 
many such plants scattered through New 
York State—in fact the New' York Ex¬ 
periment Station has located 50 of these 
plants, and a map printed in a recent 
bulletin shows how thoroughly they are 
distributed throughout the State. Most of 
the limestone deposits run through the 
Hudson Valley, and in a broaej path 
through the center of the State, to the 
A Wheelless Sweep Rake 
Niagara River. The heaviest deposits are 
scattered around Syracuse and through 
Oneida and Herkimer countie.s. The table 
printed in a bulletin recently issued by 
the Experiment Station show's where 
these crushers are located, and also 
gives the composition of the various 
brands of limestone. There is also a very 
good discussion of the needs of lime, and 
methods of testing the soil. Every far¬ 
mer in the State w'lio is inten'sTted in 
lime, and that means every one w'ho lives 
on a farm, .should have this bulletin. It 
is No. 4()0, issued by the Geneva Exper¬ 
iment Station at Geneva, New York. 
The “Wormulator” 
The latest proposition for soil im¬ 
provement that w'e have hciird of is an 
Australian implement known as _ the 
“wormulator.” Great things are claimed 
for this as we may judge* from the fol¬ 
lowing statement made about it: 
The w'ormulator seems to be an imple¬ 
ment .shaped something like a gimlet. It 
A Sweep Rake at Work 
is supi>osed to bore down into the soil 
and bring up the subsoil about as the 
anglew'orm does. It can be w'orkeel by 
man pow'er or motor power as desired. 
Of course, the owners of this wonderful 
machine are very sure that it will add 
billions of dollars to the .soil of the United 
States. Personally, we think that our 
people would get along faster tow'ards 
those billions of dollars, if instead of 
using this wormulator they could brinul 
a new' variety of angleworm, which 
would work faster, bring up an extra 
quantity of soil, and be too large for the 
boys to use as bait. This wormulator 
io(iks to us like a very good scheme for 
working down into the average man’s 
IKmket and bringing up the rich accumu¬ 
lations Avhich are to be found there for 
the benefit of these gentlemen who are 
pushing the new' machine. Gf course, 
nolxKly claims that we have reached the 
limit or the end of invention in agricul¬ 
tural machinery, but we doubt if the 
“wormulator” is going to add very much 
to progress. 
other 
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