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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



the past haying season, yet it earned me ^60, reckoning my own at 

 the price paid by the others, viz: (75 cents per hour.) I worked 

 it the first day with oxen, and could stop and then start, cutting at 

 once with so slow a team. The grass dries a third quicker from its 

 being so evenly spread. I believe, too, there may be obtained a 

 greater amount of hay per acre, with less injury to the roots, from 

 its cutting so evenly." 



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Ketcham's Improved Mowing Machine. 



