. Agriculture for southern schools. ks, and totear the forage into bits suitable for most convenient use ■Hw ...M&Ji^^V - M^ ^y^f ^ siifiT^sijigs;]^ i w Fig. 214. — Corn Harvester, with Bundle-Carrier Attachment as food or bedding. Even a bundle-carrying corn har-vester, or shocking machine (Fig. 214), and a machine forpulKng the ears, have been invented. The rice-grower uses the grain-drill, the self-binder, andother machinery like that used in grain-farming. Thesugar-planter is testing cane loaders, and cane harvestersare engaging the inventors attention. Labor-saving implements on cotton fa
. Agriculture for southern schools. ks, and totear the forage into bits suitable for most convenient use ■Hw ...M&Ji^^V - M^ ^y^f ^ siifiT^sijigs;]^ i w Fig. 214. — Corn Harvester, with Bundle-Carrier Attachment as food or bedding. Even a bundle-carrying corn har-vester, or shocking machine (Fig. 214), and a machine forpulKng the ears, have been invented. The rice-grower uses the grain-drill, the self-binder, andother machinery like that used in grain-farming. Thesugar-planter is testing cane loaders, and cane harvestersare engaging the inventors attention. Labor-saving implements on cotton farms.—The cotton i30 AGRICULTURE farmer has made less general use of labor-saving machin-ery than the grain and hay-grower. It is possible to growcotton profitably with a few very inexpensive implements,and hence a beginning may be made in cotton culture byone who has very little capital. But here, too, it pays toutilize labor-saving machinery and the implements whichmake possible the most thorough preparation and cultiva-. FiG. 215. ^Showing the Wrong Way to store Cotton in Winter tion. Most cotton farms on which several horses or mulesare worked need a disk plow, large turning plows, aspike-tooth harrow (and often others), a weeder, andthebest cultivators. Riding on one of these labor-savingimplements, one intelligent man often does well the workthat two or more men would do while walking behindsmaller implements. The invention of the cotton gin was the greatest factorin building up the cotton industry of the South. Likewisea great cheapening of the cost of producing cotton will FARM IMPLEMENTS AND MACHINERY 337 result when a cheap, simple, and durable cotton-pickershall be on the market. Recent successful public testsof at least two very different cotton-pickers point to theday of cotton-picking by machinery. Farm buildings. — Not only are implements needed infarming, but also convenient farm buildings for shelteringimplements, live-stock, and crops. A building too of
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