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be, is not more than ten minutes. The draft of the machine 

 is so easy, I think a pair of horses, weighing not more than nine 

 or ten hundred pounds each, would perform more work than 

 horses as heavy as my own. More depends on tlie surface of 

 the land being even and free from stones than on the power 

 required to cut the grass, the difference being but little, whether 

 it yield one or two tons per acre. 



During the dull weather, the past haying season, I ploughed 

 and harrowed several days with the same horses, and found the 

 work harder for them to plough common stubble land, or har- 

 row the same hours per day, than to draw the mower. 



Whole expense of repairs on the machine during the season 

 was $2.30. 



Beadfobd, September 22, 1855. 



