Title: American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments
Identifier: americanfarmings01flin (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Flint, Charles L. (Charles Louis), 1824-1889
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: New York, Casselberry
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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280 THE AMERICAN FARMER. horse-forks to feed it, and we were told, threshed 800 to 1,000 bushels of wheat and put in bags per day. These bags remain in the open field piled up in rows until taken away by teams to the railroad stations. We saw acres of bags piled up five bags high awaiting ship- ment. On many of the large farms, the plow- ing is done by gang- plows, six abreast, and drawn by ten or twelve horses. A sower is at- tached to the plow, and in this way nine or ten acres of grain may be put in the ground in a day. And have you ever thought of the importance of labor saving machines, as applied to the arts of husbandry ? Without the modern inventions, the crops of our coun- try could not be har- vested, its prosperity would be paralyzed, and a partial famine would soon ensue. How wonderful the improve- ments in our own day ' Some of us remember the old wooden plow of our boyhood, for which we often drove the team afield, and which with much hard labor could be made to turn the f ur- rows for only about one acre per day. Com- p a r e this with the
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