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American Agriculturist, February 3, l92Jl 
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ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO HIM WHO WAITS —BUT 
THE CHAP WHO DOESN’T ADVERTISE WAITS LONGEST 
EGGS AND POULTRY 
SO MANY ELEMENTS enter into the ship¬ 
ping of day-old chicks and eggs by our ad¬ 
vertisers, and the hatching of same by our 
subscribers that the publishers of this paper 
cannot guarantee the safe arrival of day- 
old chicks, or that eggs shipped shall reach the 
buyer unbroken, nor can they guarantee the 
hatching of eggs. We shall continue to ex¬ 
ercise the greatest care in allowing poultry 
and egg advertisers to use this paper, but 
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REAL RED REDS, Single Comb, purebred, 
deep, rich, red, vigorous Cockerels and Pul¬ 
lets : three, four, five dollars; satisfied cus¬ 
tomers. MEADOWBROOK FARM, Route 3, 
Box 210, Lancaster, Pa. 
MANY VARIETIES—Pure Bred Poultry, 
Baby Chicks and Pigeons at low prices. 100 
page book in colors describes them. Mailed 
for 5 cents. PRANK FOY, Box 14, Clinton, 
Iowa. 
SPLENDID COCKERELS, also eggs from 
best strains. Barred rocks, single comb reds, 
white Wyandottes, light Brahmas, white 
Leghorns. CHESBRO FARMS, North Chili, 
N. Y. 
REDS—Single, Comb Rhode Island Reds. 
Harold Tompkins and Mahood strains. Satis¬ 
faction guaranteed. Prices right. W. D. 
HUTCHISON, Claysville, Pa. 
FOR SALE—.lersey Black Giant Cockerels 
$8 and $10 each. Single Comb Rhode Island 
Red Cockerels, $5 each. MRS. .1. G. PAVEK, 
Highland Palls, N. Y. 
HATCHING EGGS, from Pure Bred, Reds, 
Rocks, Minorcas, Leghorns, Anconas. Fine 
breeding males reasonable. L. D. CLARK, 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
A PEW MORE LIGHT BRAHMA COCK¬ 
ERELS $2.50 each ; cocks $5 each, also Buff 
Orpington Cockerels $2.50 each. J. T. EAGAN, 
Lebanon, N. Y. 
STOCK EGGS—Chicks White Leghorns, 
Reds, Black Minorcas, White China Geese, 
prices reasonable. BROOKSIDE FARM, Key- 
mar, Md. 
WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKERELS. Mam- 
mouth Pekin ducks. Pearl Guinea. LAURA 
DECKER, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
S. C. BUFF ORPINGTON COCKERELS. 
Exclusively Poertner strain sturdy farm raised. 
I. B. ZOOK, Ronks, Pa. 
BROWN LEGHORN COCKERELS. Tor- 
moTilen everlay strain. SUNNY'SIDE FARM, 
Emporium, Pa. 
PARDEE’S PERFECT PEKIN DUCKLINGS. 
Eggs, catalogue. ROY PARDEE, Islip, N. Y. 
LARGE AYLESBURY DUCKS; pairs $7. 
M. V. CALDWELL, Lisbon, Ohio. 
TURKEYS 
TURKEYS—Hens and Toms—with size and 
quality. Pairs and trios no akin. Mammoth 
Bronze, Bourbon Red, Narragansett, White 
Holland, write, WALTER BROS, Powhatan 
Point, Ohio. 
MAMMOUTH BRONZE TOMS. LAURA 
DECKER, Stanfordville, N. Y. 
WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS. MRS. L. .1. 
CLOSE, Locke, N. Y. 
BEES 
HONEY—Purity guaranteed, box of four 
ten pound pails, here, clover-basswood, $5.60 ; 
buckwheat $4.80; 60 pound cans $7.80 and 
$6.30. Ten pounds prepaid, 3rd. zone, $2.05 ; 
buckwheat $1.80. WILCOX APIARIES, 
Odessa, N. Y. 
PURE HONEY—Circular free. ROSCOE F. 
WIXSON, Dept. A. Dundee, New York. 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
FARM DOGS—English shepherds, pups and 
grown dogs, guaranteed heel drivers, natural 
in.stinct to handle cattle. Credit given if re¬ 
quested. W. W. NORTON, Ogdensburg, N. Y. 
FLEMISH GIANT RABBITS, Exclusively. 
T. A. WILSON, Marion, N. Y. 
COLLIE PUPS PAINE’S KENNELS, South 
Royalton, Vt. 
CATTLE 
BULL CALF—15 Registered, short horns. 
Will exchange for Guernseys. ALEX. FISHER, 
Madrid, N. Y. 
BEAL ESTATE 
CALIFORNIA STATE LANDS—The State 
Land Board of California has for sale 87 
irrigated farms at Ballico, near Merced, in 
San Joaquin Valley on main line Santa Fe 
Railway. The State makes it possible for you 
to own one of these farms, only requiring 5 
per cent of purchase price, remainder in semi¬ 
annual installments extending over 36% years 
w'ith 5 per cent interest annually. Here is 
an opportunity to become a home owner on 
terms as favorable as renting. It will be a 
long time before any more land will be avail¬ 
able under such generous provisions. Money 
advanced on improvements and dairy stock. 
Those already located very enthusiastic ; you 
can farm all year in California ; all deciduous 
fruits profitably grown ; alfalfa a paying crop, 
ideal conditions for stock and poultry; many 
persons long some day to make their homes 
in California, with its winterless climate, 
plenty of sunshine, seashore and mountains, 
fertile valleys, paved highways, very efficient 
marketing, excellent schools; State Board’s j 
pamphlet, also Santa Fe folder describing San j 
Joaquin Valley mailed free on request. C. L. 
SEAGRAVES, General Colonization Agent, 
Santa Fe, 951 Railway Exchange, Chicago, 
Ills. 
TO SELL—direct from owner. 348 acres 
level rolling grain dairy farm. Well equipped 
with stock, tools, hay, grain, ensilage. Ex¬ 
cellent buildings. 1% miies level .Macadam 
road to D. L. & W. Railroad town, Bordens, 
high school, bank. $10,000 easy terms, Box 
128, Nichols, N. Y. 
2 FARMS IN NORTH DAKOTA to trade for 
farms In New England States, also tractor 
plowing outfit, .pulls 12 plows, to trade for 
eastern property. SHURTLIFF, Mannsville, 
N. Y. 
FOR EXCHANGE ; Small farm, for -vacant 
lots. Also other farms for exchange for in¬ 
come property. S. M. BREED, McDonough, 
N. Y. 
FOR SALE. Two of the best fruit farms 
in Western New York, near Lake Ontario. 
SETH J. T. RUSH. Morton, N. Y. 
AGENTS WANTED 
AGENTS WANTED—Agents make a dol¬ 
lar an hour. Sell Mendets, a patent patch 
for instant mending leaks in all utensils. 
Sample package free. COLLETTE MFG. CO., 
Dept. 140, Amsterdam, N. Y. 
AGENTS-—Our soap and Toilet article plan 
is a wonder. Get our free sample case offer. 
HO-RO-CO., 177 Locust St., St. Louis. Mo. 
RAW FURS AND TRAPPERY 
WE SOLICIT LARGE AND SMALL country 
consignments of beef, horse hides and kindred 
lines Prompt and fair returns. Write for 
tags. PENNSYLVANIA HIDE & LEATHER 
COMPANY, Scranton, Pa. 
SELLING SILVER FOXES—$5 monthly. SIL- 
VERBAR ASSOCIATION, 143 e. Dracut, Mass. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
LATEST STYLE SANITARY MILK TICK¬ 
ETS save money and time. Free delivery. 
Send for samples. TRAVERS BROTHERS, 
Dept. A, Gardner, Mass. 
ALFALFA, mixed and timothy hay. Have 
seven cars, shipped subject inspection. W. 
A. WITHROW, Rout'e Four, Syracuse, New 
York. 
PRINTING — 1,000 - envelopes, noteheads or 
cards $2.75 postpaid. Samples and price list 
free. ANDERSON PRESS, Beacon, N. Y. 
FERRETS—Get ,our free booklet and pre¬ 
war prices on sound healthy Ferrets. W. A. 
JEWETT & SONS, Rochester, O. 
BEST EXTENSION LADDERS made 23 
cents per foot. Freight paid. A. L. FERRIS, 
Interlaken, N. Y. 
$5 REWARD Wirt be paid for the correct 
address of W. B. Decker. Box 139, Station 
F, New York City. 
FEMALE HELP WANTED 
WANTED—Single women as attendants in 
State Institution for feeble-minded; salary, 
$44 per month and maintenance. Apply stat¬ 
ing age and inclosing letter of reference (from 
previous employeer if possible) to SUPER¬ 
INTENDENT, LETCHWORTH VILLAGE, 
Thiells, N. Y. Rockland Co. 
STANCHIONS 
CRUMB’S STANCHIONS are guaranteed to 
please the purchaser. They are shipped sub¬ 
ject to trial in the buyer’s stable. They are 
right. Send for booklet. WALLACE B. 
CRUMB, Box A, Forrestville, Conn. 
HELP WANTED 
WANTED—Reliable couple under 40, no 
children or tobacco, for boys’ school. _ Princi¬ 
pal work for man repairing, painting and 
glazing. Wife housekeeper of dormitory. 
State salary expected with maintenance, also 
supervisor for cottage of boys. For particu¬ 
lars write, SUPT. COUNTY TRAINING 
SCHOOL, Lawrence, Mass. 
made in local blacksmith shops. The 
singletrees had no iron on them, but 
simply a notch cut on each end, 
“Our grain was cut with a reaping- 
hook, a blade about ten inches long 
with an iron rod extending out about 
twelve inches and bent, with a wooden 
handle. We caught the top of the grain 
with one hand and used the reaping- 
hook with the other hand. Next came 
the cradle. The blades for the cradle 
were shipped in, but the balance of the 
implement was made locally. The 
cradle and reaping-hook were made in 
local blacksmith shops. 
“The first wagons we had were ox 
carts with two wheels. They were 
made in the local blacksmith shop. 
Then came a rudely constructed shop- 
made wagon, made by local men. 
Our first manufactured wagons were 
shipped in from Tennessee after 1846.” 
In 1842 Cyrus Hall McCormick sold 
seven of his “Virginia Reapers,” first 
practically demonstrated 11 years be¬ 
fore. Up to that time he had sold 
just nine reapers. In that year Wil¬ 
liam Parlin started the little black¬ 
smith shop at Canton, Ill., that was to 
become the first real plow factory in 
this country or in the world. 
The first steel plow had been made 
by John Lane at Chicago out of an old 
saw blade in 1833, but the steel plow 
as an item of average farm equipment 
was still many years in the future. 
The chilled plow had been invented 
many years before, but James Oliver’s 
first patent was not issued till 1868 and 
the implement was not perfected until 
1873. The patenting of the first suc¬ 
cessful riding plow was still 22 years 
in the future—and so on down the list 
of the farm implements that now seem 
to us to have taken on a respectable 
antiquity. 
Eighty years a,jO we were at the be¬ 
ginning of the transition from farming 
by hand to the period of mechanical 
husbandry; and then we were also at 
the beginning of the country’s remark¬ 
able period of expansion and growth. 
No historian that I know of has 
touched'more than lightly and casually 
upon the part that the development of 
efficient farm implements and their 
production in quantity to meet the de¬ 
mand played in the pioneering and set¬ 
tlement of the great West which was, 
after all, the longest step toward the 
fulfillment of bur Republic’s destiny. 
In 1842 we still farmed toilsomely 
and scantily by hand. Then came the 
earlier implements that made farming 
more attractive and more profitable, 
but for nearly two full-time genera¬ 
tions the horse furnished the only prac¬ 
ticable power the farmer could employ 
SWINE 
FOR SALE—Chester White. Boar, Wildwood 
Again, No. 104635, farrowed March 1921, 
stands 3 ft. high, 70 in. long. J. S. BOYER, 
Wolcott, N. Y. 
SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCKS 
SEED POTATOES—Russet Rural Variety. 
Selected twelve years. FAIRACRES POTATO 
FARM, E. R. SMITH, Specialist, Kasoag, N. Y. 
SEED POTATOES, Dibble Russet, raised 
from certified stock. C. B. GEIGER, Saegers- 
ville. Pa. 
WOMEN’S WANTS 
PATCHWORK—Send fifteen cents for house¬ 
hold package, bright new calicoes and percales. 
Your money’s worth every time. PATCH- 
WORK COMPANY, Meriden, Conn. 
save the two hands of himself and his 
hired man. Now, we are well advanced 
in the third principal phase of the de¬ 
velopment of farm machinery—the age 
of power farming; and most of us are 
as little conscious of the great transi¬ 
tion that is taking place in this respect 
as the farmers of fifty or eighty years 
ago were of what was then going on 
in our industry and in theirs. 
When 1 think of what the invention 
and development of more modern farm 
implements meant to the progte-is of 
our civilization throughout the latter 
part of the nineteenth century, I often 
wonder what the wider and larger 
effect will be when we have reached 
the high point in the development and 
use of power machinery on the farm. 
The Era of Internal Combustion 
Engines 
Steam has so far played only a small 
direct part in the pi;oducts of the farm 
implement industry or in c^’riculture. 
We had to wait for the full develop¬ 
ment of the internal combustion engine 
before we could improve upon the horse 
as a source of power on the farm. The 
first internal combustion tractor was 
offered for sale in the early 90’s, but 
it was not until 1903 that the real de¬ 
velopment of gasoline and kerosene 
tractors began. It is of record that the 
first successful manufacturer of trac¬ 
tors had only 300 tractors in the field 
by the spring of 1908. 
The tractor as a source of farm 
power, marking the beginning of the 
era of power farming, sebms a famil¬ 
iar agency for doing the hardest of all 
farm work, yet we note in the last 
census that only 3.6 per cent of Ameri¬ 
ca’s 6,500,000 farms were equipped 
with tractors. At present, according 
to trade estimates, there are about 
400,000 tractorized farms, or 6.1 per 
cent. Obviously there is still a long 
way to go before this simplest of power 
plants reaches anything like general 
use in agriculture. 
Still younger and much less familiar 
to the nonfarming public and, in fact, 
to a considerable part of our agricul¬ 
tural population, is the direct combi¬ 
nation of the internal combustion prin¬ 
ciple with farm machinery. I refer to 
automotive agricultural machines fui’- 
nishing all their own tractive and 
operative power. Here the room for 
modification, improvement and inven¬ 
tion is wide and the field attractive. 
It may well be believed that within 
another generation we shall see 
changes in farm equiprnent along this 
line that will mean still lower labor 
costs, with corresponding benefits to 
all concerned. 
Eighty Years With Farm Machinery 
{Continued from page 87) 
