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FRAZER & DOZIER, Wholesale and Retail
HARDWARE, ( Columbus,
A COTTON CHOPPER.
A Machine that ha* Proven Wucce**
fol In the field-A boon to Farmer*.
Mes.jrs George T. Chandler, of
Juniper, in Talbot county, and John
E. Taylor, of Shiloh, in this county,
have received letters patent on a cot
ton chopper. The machine was in¬
vented by them last season and suc¬
cessfully operated in the cotton field.
It is an invention of so much impor¬
tance to the farming community that
we c.opy from their circular at tenth.
They say:
While a practical and successful
cotton chopper has long been the
dream of the cotton planter, yet it
has been regarded as beyond the
reach of mechanics to obtain it. The
difficulties have been surmounted and
a triumph attained, and in calling
your attention to “The Success” cot
ion chopper, we do so with a confi¬
dence born of actual test in the cot¬
ton fields, behind the mule nd before
the man, row after row and acre
after acre. And we now ask you to
consider something that will not sim¬
ply lighten the expense, but also re¬
move a great burden heretofore in¬
separable from cotton culture. If
YOU can use one hand and one mule
with a machine ard chop as much
cotton as you can now with four or j
five hands and hoes and do it even
.
half as well, would it not be to your
interest to use the machine? But
with this machine you can do it fully
as well, if not better, than the average
wi rk that farmers have to accept
Hunt “free labor.”
We speak knowingly on this point
because the machine has been at 1
work on Mr. Taylor's plantation in
Talbot county Ga. and the work j
shown to the public side by side with (
the ordinary hand chopper, and after
>t had been plowed one time a stran
gcr and could the other not began, tell when The one land ended j '
was
lolling, clay sand, with loose rock.
I'ite has be barred off in '
cotton to
the usual wav with an ordinary turn
plow, running as close to the plant as
possible. The wheels ot the chop
I\ 1 run in those Arrows which seem
a track to keep the machine in its
place. The chopper must follow the
plow while the dirt is fiesh
loose. The man and machine and
mule go (loan the middles, between the
iows. the hoe alone being on the
tow. It chops only one row at a
1 me . and does it nicely, at a'rate of
in ii 4 to 7 a» res a day according to
j speed of the mule and character of
the land.
The hoe blade drags all the dirt,
grass and cut plants from off the bed
throwing it into the middle, and the
drag is just such that the stalks left
have a little dirt pushed to them on
each side, and braces them up and
prevents them from falling down flat,
as they are so inclined to do, espe
cially if there is a light crust on the
dirt. The hoe is completely under
the control of the operator, it can
be put into the dirt or helb out,
thrust to one side or the other at
will; and further the hoe blade is ad¬
justable in its width, so that it can
be made to cut to as few stalks as de
si red or to have wider gaps accord >
ing to the goodness or badness of
the stand. It is secured to a neat
and strong frame and the whole is on
two wheels and is properly ballanced
in relation to the draft, so that, with
out interfering with its progress, the
operator can raise or lower it, pass
to the one hand or the other as he
desire, thus passing over or around
the stump, skips in the stand, cut as
deep or shallow as may be necessary.
Tl\cy are not more difficult to learn
to manage than the Dowlaw planter
is to a new hand,
or many of the popular cultivators,
Any one, of ordinary intelligence, by
the exercise of a little patience and
care at the start, can soon master it
so fully that in a few days theamount
of work he can do will astonish even
those most sanguine as to the merits
of the machine.
Now we do not claim for this
machine to accomplish any of “the
impossibilities,” viz: to work in a new
ground where the stumps and roots
are thick and numerous, or to chop
two or more rows at one and the
same time. It will work on any or
dinary land that has been in cultiva
tion two or three years so that the
roots and stumps have been reduced
somewhat in number. With the
present condition ot cotton farms,
having stumps more or less; rocks and
gullies; and the present methods of
laying off the rows and plaining; hav
ing some wide and some narrow, and
some both wide and narrow all in
itself. Any man of intelligence knows
that to properly chop two or more
the • • •
rows at same time is a practical
impossibility. “The Success” chops
one tow at a time ; and does it nicely
and rapidly : and you are not only
satisfied but delighted. Ordinanly
you can go as comfortably around a
l
stump, as you can with a planter,
and come back into your row and go
; on without tearing up and destroying
a jj cotton for an indefinite dis
tance around the stump in every di
i rection. This machine would be
cheap at $75, as a man could not
only chop his own cotton, but getting
through so soon he could chop his
neighbor’s for him and both be inde¬
pendent of the unreliable help that
must be depended upon at the "busi¬
est season of the year.
But if you will send us your order
we will send you one for $50.
do not toss this paper away saying
that it is to much and then dismiss
the subject. Think how many times
when the season and ground were
just right you have wished you could
chop your whole crop right the, that
* r ery day. But you could not, ana
by the time your hoe hands make
their slow rounds; the ground had
dried out and was hard; the grass
has begun to grow; the cotton was
choked and checked and had receiv
e d its first backset for the season,
Think of all this, and know that with
t hi s machine and a good mule you
dispatch from four to seven acres
per day—soon be done and be roll
n g your dirt to it with your
sweeps before others have hardly be¬
gun to “chop.”
Buy one. Give it a patient and
faithful trial. Do not be discouraged
if you do some awkward work at
first; many men have condemned and
hotly discarded a cotton planter, and
vet, in cooler trial have found it a
truly labor saving device. So keep
your chopper a going and when once
you have it working rightly, you will
never be without one again as long
as you ever expect to plant cotton.
Send 11s your order, and send it
now, while we have some chance to
fill it. Do not waij; till the “press”
of the season comes on.
Address:
John K. Taylor, Shiloh, Ga.
or Geo. T. Chandler,
Manufacturer,
Juniper, Ga.
The following persons are intelli
gent and practical . farmers ot r <-r lalbot 1.
county and are responsible men.
They have seen the machine at work
and have seen the work in the after
progress of the crop and they testify
willingly to the merits of the machine
in meeting the requirement of prac
! tica cotton growers, and by permis
si on we refer the curious and the
skeptical to any or all of them undei
the fullest assurance that you will
receive candid opinion of the practi¬
cal value of The Success cotton chop¬
per. When you write enclose stamp
j for reply.
Mr W. P. Rus;,ell, Belleview, Ga.
f. O. Collier, “
“ R. S. Fryer, “
“ L. B. McCrory, “
“ T. P. McDowell, Shiloh, Ga.
“ J. T. McCrory, “
“ J. C. Ellis,
“ W. T. Chapman, “
“ W. H. Ellison, “
Dr. T. C. Ellison,
Mr. S Z. Webster, Pieasant Hill, Ga.
“ Gip Olive, “ “
“ D.T. Cunningham Chalybeate Sp’gs
“ A. A. Ellison. Ellerslie, Ga.
The machine was awarded tfie di
ploma for the “best cotton chopper”
at the- State Fair in Macon, Ga.,Oct.
1887.
A Few Tons I.eft.
The demand for the famous Gos
sipium Guano and Acid Phosphate
has been beyond precedent this sea¬
son. No fertilizers gave better satis¬
faction last season and the justly
earned reputation of the goods we
handle will be maintained, The
product of our factory, the best in
America, has been larger than ever
before; but not larger than the de¬
mand. I have a few tons on hand
at Chipley, Hamilton, Cataula and
stations on the Georgia Midland
which can be had of my representa¬
tives at these places or by addressing
me at Columbus. If you would get
the best value in fertilizers use the
Gossipium Phospho Guano.
T. J. Hunt.
The Wealh Of a Home
Is <le: endent upon the happiness therein.
If s-ickneas is tlure, whaj a shadow tails.
Parents, you should uever negl ct a slight
cough 01 cold, but give in lime Tav.ors
Cheokee Remedy of S*eet Gum and Mul¬
lein .
Malaria does not alwajs reveal its pres¬
ence by chills or regular shakes. Your
system may be full of it and none of these
symtoms be present, \ouwill feefons
erable, think yon are bilious, take purga¬
tive vnd only feel weaker and worse, be*
cause the malarious poisin is still opera¬
tive. A dose of Shallenbergers Pills will
show T 00 next morning that you have bit -
the real enemy, and a dose or two more
wii \ remov a every vestige of the poiRon.
They never gripe, do not act on thh bow¬
els, but simply destroy malaria
S100TOS300 A Month can be
mad? working for
us. erred Agents pre-
1 who can
furnish their own horses and give their whole
time iblv to employed the business.Spare njso. moments may be prof¬
it A tew vacancies in twns
and St Richmonp, cities. B. F. JOHNSON & CO., 1013 Main
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