]^34 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



other cheaper and belter ones, should be the policy of fanners in 

 Maine." 



Another machine known as the "Tedder," or haymaker, has been 

 used in England to lighten the labors of haying, and last year two 

 of them were imported by the Massachusetts Society for the Promo- 

 tion of Agriculture. It is understood that Messrs. Nourse, Mason 

 & Co. of Boston, propose to manuHicture them for sale next season. 

 The principal information I have been able to obtain in regard to 

 their working is contained in two letters published in the Transac- 

 tions of the Massachusetts Society for last year, (1858.) and which 

 are subjoined : 



Waltham, Sept. 1, 1858. 



My Dear Sir: — I have the pleasure to report to you about the 

 working- of the Tedding Machine imported by the Trustees of the 

 Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. 



The machine has been used with great advantage, and has given 

 satisfaction to the haymakers. No part of it has bi'oken, or yielded 

 to the hard work done by it. It has been applied to the swaths 

 laid by the mowing machine when they were dry enough to be 

 turned and in the direction of the mower. If grass is cut by the 

 scythe it works best by being driven across the swaths. 



The machine has two motions, communicated by gears in the 

 hubs of the wheels — one forward, which lifts the grass and throws 

 it above, over, and behind the machine. The other motion is a 

 reverse one, lifting the grass and throwing it behind. Both mo- 

 tions lift, open and spread the grass, more perfectly than can be 

 done by a man and fork, and the machine does its work as fast as 

 a horse carries it forward. It is heavy, does much work very 

 quickly, and requires one good horse to draw it. I have been 

 away from my iiirm much of the time of haymaking, but I may 

 safely say that the men who have used it conmieud it highly as a 

 laboc-saving machine, doing its work without any delay. 



The machine weighs 1090 pounds. Wheels, axle and frame- 

 work, are iron. 



Very respectfully, j'our obed't scrv't, 



(Jeorge W. Lyman. 

 To R. S. Fay, Esq., Secretary of the Trustees of 



the Ifassachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. 



