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mead them for practice, bein^ conscious, that the manu- 

 facturers of paper, hemp, and flax, from Analogy, are pos- 

 sessed of the knowledg^e of operations and means more 

 consonant and infinitely superior. 



These several mannfactureB from the new substance of 

 nettles, patronized by the stimulating approbation and re- 

 commendation of the Society of Arts, &c., I with all due 

 deference venture to predict will rapidly increase the capital 

 of those individuals who engage therein, afford new em- 

 ployment to the poorer classes of society, and become a 

 new source of wealth to the oation. 



■' EDWARD SMITH. 



April y 28, 1810, 



II. 



Description of an improved Reapins^hook for Corn. Sy Mr* 

 Joseph Hutton, Jun. of Ridgway^ near Sheffield*. 



SIR, 



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,T a time like the present, when all foreign supplies of A grlculturil 



grain are cut off, nothing can be more acceptable to the l'"?'^^^^™^"^ 

 " /. 1 J- • J • . • "ijportant. 



public than' usetui discoveries and improvements in agri- 



ciilture, 1 am tbeT«^<We anxious to contribute, in some 



degree, to this end, by sending some remarks on reaping VM 



the harvest, accompanied with my new-improved reap- ^ 



hook. * ' 



1 have, for the last eight y^rs, had an opportunity of Reapitj^. 

 inspecting the different modes of reaping the harvest in 

 many parts of Great Britain, and I have also had informa- 

 tion on the subject from various parts of Europe and Ame- 

 rica on respectable authorities. 



I will first endeavour to describe the different kinds of 

 implements used for this purpose, some of them being em- 

 ■ ployed in one part of the kingdom, and not in another. 

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♦ TriTM.-of the Society of Arts, toI. XXVIII, p. 54. The silver 

 ne4al was -roted to Mr. Hutton for this improvement. 



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