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E. E. Ewing, Proprietor.
VOL. VII. RISING SUN. CECIL COUNTY. MD.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER !>. IBS>. NO. ,V 2.
TO BUSINESS MEN.
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A good advertisement in a good paper
is the"best of all salesmen. It is a sales-
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man who never sleeps, and is never weary;
who goes after business early or late; who
accosts the merchant in his store, the
scholar in his study, the lawyer in his office
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the lady in her home, the traveler in the
cars or boat; a salesman whom no purchas-
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er can avoid; who can be in a thousand
nlaces at once, anil speak to thousands of
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people daily, saying to each one the best
thing in the best manner. A good adver
ment insures a business connection on the
most permanent and and independent basis,
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and is, in a certain sense, a guarantee to the
customer of fair and moderate prices. Ex
perience has shown that the dealer whose
stock has obtained a public celebrity is not
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only enabled to sell, but is forced to sell at
reasonable rates, and to furnish a good ar-
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tide- A dealer can make no better invest
ment than in advertising in a live paper.
~ 1885. 1885.
TEE SIXTH ANNUAL FAIR
OF THE
(ecdliinty kmcuLTURAL Society
WILL BE HELD ON THE
FAIR GROUNDS AT ELKTON
tiif.'liii. am nwni *> an,
OCTOBER 6,7, 8 AND 9.
SIO,OOO IN PREMIUMS!
The success of our Fairs has been unprecedented. The location
of our beautiful Grounds is unsurpassed for a great attendance, and
we have had it.
Our Exhibits have been varied and excellent and contributed by
four States ; but the groat bulk has come from old Cecil, and to her
citizens do we again appeal for the best of the products of her Farms,
Gardens, Orchards, Factories, Shops and Households.
Every man, woman and child in Cecil should have an honest pride
in her Fair and contribute to its future growth.
Send your entries early to
JOHN PARTRIDGE, Secretary,
Klkton. Maryland.
cTmTchilbs & CO.
CONOWINGO, MARYLAND.
—s^sgDEALKRS
COAL. LINE, SALT, FERTILIZERS, PLASTER, HAIR, BRICK,
CEMENT, LUMBER and AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.
p&T’IUE CELEB I A TED SNOW FLAKE LIME, SALT AND
TOBACCO , AT WHOLESALE ONLY.
Have also opened a general Hardware Store, where the Carpenter, Blacksmith and Painter can
he supplied with mil outttt and stock. Our llonsi hold I'urmkuek, included in tho line of Hard
ware, comprises many novelties never helore on this market.
We invite particular atteutiou at this time to our facilities tor furnishing all grades of
HARD AxV XX SOFT CCAT, ( AUtD STOVES
of all varieties and sizes to consume it. Special prices given on application to Clubs for the deliv
ery of foal in Car Load lots at Haines' Station, Oct.iraro and Kowlaudville.
We solieita call item all the fanners in this vicinity, that they may l,now where they can procure
PURE ROJil , either haw, Dissolved or Ammouiated. Also ialtifi (IRaDE ROCK and other reliable
FERTILIZERS, at competing prices.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED IN ALL PRACTICABLE CASES.
[Entered at the Post Office in Rising Sun, Md. f as Second Class Matter.]
Fall Plowing For Spring.
Dialogue between farmers. Extracts
from an essay by Henry Stewart,
one of the editors of the American
Agriculturist.
“But, as I was going to say, my soil
is light yet I have been in the habit
of plowing it in the fall for the past
five seasons, which is precisely the
time in which I have been using the
‘ Acme” harrow. Every tiling is
plowed. And not only is this work
all done, but no weeds go to seed for
they are all turned under with the
stubbles and rot in the soil and make
valuable manure. Then in the spring
this “Acme” Harrow is put on as
soon as the surface is dry enough. I
don't wait for the frost to get out. If
there is dry enough soil to get lour
inches of loose mellow surface the
oats and the peas are sown. I have
sown oats when the soil below the sur
face was all frozen, and the surface
froze repeatedly afterwards. But I
haye grown oats weighing forty-seven
pounds to the bushel for four years
successively from seed the same
weight. I believe this early sowing
is the secret of growing heavy oats.”
Mr. Jones: “I don’t doubt that
because oats require a cool soil and
a long season and the usual late sow
ing throws them into the sudden hot
weather of early summer before they
have become well rooted. But tell
us how this implement works on fall
plowed sod, for if it succeeds with
that, the only objection there is
against plowing sod in the fall is re
moved.”
Mr. Peters: “That is the great dif
ficulty with every farmer who plants
corn on sod land ; how to manage
the proper work on it in the spring.”
“I know it is,” I replied. “Corn
should alwavs be planted on fresh
mellow soil, and the sod should not
be disturbed.”
Mr. Jones : ‘‘Precisely, and that is
why I have advocated spring plowing
plowing of sod for corn on any soil ”
“But,” I rejoined, “if you can have
the sod left precisely as it has been
turned ; but well firmed and coin
pactc'j by the settling during the
winter months, and then secure four
or five inches of fine fresh mellow soil,
thoroughly pulycrized, and made
firm and compact, right over the halt
decayed sod, and the work done at
the rate of ten acres per day without
excessive work of any stout farm
team and yourself ride easily on a
seat as if you were mowing grass,
would you not then advocate the more
economical way of plowing sod in
the fal:?”
Mr Jones and Mr. Peters.(both to
gether) : “I would, most certainly.
“But tell me. said Mr. Peters, “how
this machine is made and how it
operates.”
“The implement consists of a
double cross bar attached to a tongue;
the bar is of angle iron and is provid
ed with a number of steel cutters
which break the clods and slice the
surface into strips. Behind these are
fixed a number of sharp steel coulters
having a curve similar to that of a
mold board of a plow, but long and
narrow. The bar can be let down so
as to run close to the srfrface and
sink the cutters and coulters in the
soil. The effect is that the bar breaks
up the clods, levels and smooths the
surface; the cutters and coulters
break up ; turn over pulverize and
firm the soil and leave it in the finest
condition for sowing or planting seed;
s- tting out plants or doing any of the
work of a farm or market garden, at
the rate as I have said of ten acres a
day or one acre per hour, with the
driver riding upon a comfortable
seat and adding by his weight to the
effectiveness of the work ifthe weight
is needed.” 1
Mr. Peters : “That meet 9 all the
requirements of our spring work, and
if the implement does all this, we
need not go mourning about our un
certain and short spring. What do
you think about it friend Jones?”
Mr. Jones: “The great difficulty I
have experienced in spring work is
■ not only to get the work done in time,
but to get the soil moist, fresh, mel
low and firm with the implement we
have to work with. The surface only
should be worked in the spring. 1
never counted my soil fit to plant un
til it had been harrow'ed four or five
times and all this work, with the plow
; ing, occupies so much time that few
farmers can cultivate enough land to
make a living from; or the farmer
must have extra horses and he p in
the spring to do the work that is nec
essary to raise full crops. Half crops
are starvation to a farmer in these
days of low prices. Now, if we have
in the ‘‘Acme” Pulverizing Harrow,
ajelod crusher and pulverizer, and a
set of gang plows, and a thorough
harrow as I think the description
warrants, I think we have the very
implements we need to enable us to
plow our land in the fad; both sod
and stubble, and to fit it for the seed
without any loss of time and in spite
of the season.”
“And,” remarked I, just here “this
is precisely what this implement will
do. and lias done for several years
past, for many thousands of farmer
whose experience has been like mime,
that after using it for some years, it
is impossible to get along without it
and go back to the old and unsat
isfactory manner of doing things.”
Mr. Peters: “But I should like to
ask a few questions. How does this
"Acme” Harrow operate on I eayyelry
sdl? How does it leave the sou? Ilow i
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h avy is the draft? Is it durable and <
str ng or likely to kreak in using?
Does it clear itself? How is it used i
in sod, with the furrow or across it ? <
How deep does it work the soil? Can i
it be used to cover clover seed? Will ]
it do everything that a liariow can
do? Will it Don’t laugh, these i
are important things lor a farmer to i
know. 1 was going to ask : will p i
fay a farmer to go: one who farms <
only fifty acres?” <
x use me,” I replied, “I was i
smiii.ig to t link these were the very
same questions 1 asked wlnn I first
learned of this implement, a,id was
amused to thi.ik In w very much alike
farmers think on the same subject I i
will <ry to satisfy you on all these j
points,” i
“The farmer who works heavy soil
finds several joints of difference from
the working of a light soil. There
is a certain condition of moisture in
which clay soil should not be plowed
or worked with any implement ; and
a certain condition of dryness in
which it cannot he worked. The right
stage is when the soil breaks apart
easily and when it is neither wet nor
dry. This occurs in tne fall after the
fall rains have come and early spring
One Dollar per Annum in Advance.
as soon as the frost has disappeared,
and a few dry windy days have left .
the soil in just the right condition.
A few more dry days will harden a
soil s-o much that it cannot be made
fine, hence the need of an implement
which will fit such a soil for seeding
in the quickest manner. This rapid
work is just what the “Acme” Harrow
does, and it leaves a fall plowed clay
soil in an excellent condition for
spring planting in the shortest possi.
ble time. But the farmer should not
neglect the first opportunity of mak
ing the soil, with this implement
which makes cross plowing unneeces
sary and does the work so much bet
ter than a harrow, inasmuch as it
smoothes, levels, breaks, pulverizes
and turns oer the surface, all at one
operation.”
•‘On fall plowed sod it leaves the
furrows exactly as they were turnel,
pressing them down more closely ;
leaving loose the soil and the decom
posed roots, filling cyery crevice and
hollow, never turning up a sod, which
it cannot possibly do, and it leaves the
sun ace as fresh and mellow as if the
land had been plowed only the day
before. In cultivating sud with the
“Acme” Oarrow, this implement may
be used with the sod, or across it, or
quartering or diagonally over it in
any way that may he desired because
it cannot disturb the sod under the
surface but presses it down more
firmly.”
“The draft, not much, if any more
t han that of a common narrow, and is
not too heavy for even a light ordi
nary farm team. On heavy soil is ad
visable to use a stout team, or even
three horses, and let the driver ride
to make it work as deeply as possible.”
“As it is made wholly of rolled
wrought iron and steel, with no wood
about it but the forward half of the
tongue and as the steel is thorough y
well tempered and thousands of them
are made every yer, it is as strong
and durableasany implementcan pos
sible be made. Five years constant
use lias not left a single blemish on
the implement I have used.”
“The manner of construction and
the steel coulters entirely prevent
clogging in aHy soil ; manure even
may he pulverized and spread with
it and some farmers make a practice
of breaking up and spreading the
manure both upon meadows and
p’owed ground with this implen e t.
Tiie depth to which it works is reg
ulated by the elevation or depression
of the double bar, which is done in
stantly by means of a lever in front
of the driver. It will work two inches
deep or the coulters may be buried in
the soil so as to work it five inches
in depth if neccessary. It may be
used to cover the seed which it will
do much better titan a common bar
row. as the so 1 is mined c imp'etely
over upon the seed as if it had been
p'o-nd in a light fun©'*. Peas ni d
oats are covered perfectly, and every
farmer who has tried to harr >w po-m,
knows how hard it is to cover them
wth a tooth harrow. It will uo •>-
erything that a harrow can 00, and
a great deal more thus saving much
va liable time in the shortest season.
As t" your list question, the answer
is plain : no farmer can afford to do
without it ; for ifonly ten acres are
worked with it and five bushels of
grain per acre gained by its use or
the cross plowing of the ten acres is
saved, the whole cost of it is return
ed.