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From lall year's official proofs and extcnfive experiments 

 In horfe-hoeing, we are juftified in faying, »that by a proper 

 and fcafonable ufe of the above drill and horfe^hoe, the 

 largeft farm in this ifland may be kept as clean from weeds 

 (the bane of all arable lands) as any garden need be, with a 

 clear extra profit of more than the rent of land. 



Article XLVIL 

 On a new Wajhing-Machine^ by Henry Murrell. 



MANY have been the implements and machines con- 

 trived to expedite the common operation of wafhing, 

 and fome have even been vended by patent. From trials 

 which have been made of an improved machine introduced 

 to this Society by Mr. Murrell, it appears to be very ufeful, 

 and worthy of recommendation ; we therefore have given 

 an engraving of it, [plate 2.] and here fubjoin dire£lions 

 for its ufe. 



The night before waQiing, the linen (hould be foaked in 

 cold watet mixed with fome foaper's lye. At the time of 

 walhing, have ready a quantity of boiling water, into which 

 has been (hred foap, in the proportion of two ounces to 

 twelve gallons, fo well ftirred as to be all diflblved, with a 

 mixture alfo of foaper's lye. 



Tlien take out the linen and foap it, as is ufually done for 

 boiling; after which, put into the machine about twelve gal- 

 lons of the above-dire6led boiling water. Linen the leaft 

 foiled is firil to be put iiuo the machine. Not more than the 



quantity 



