606 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



ADVANCE IN LABOR 8AVING MACHINERY 



OE THE EARM, 



BY C. HORACE HUBBARD, OF SPRINGFIELD. 



In an age characterized by a remarkable degree of pro- 

 gress in the mechanic arts ; when the genius of man has 

 subdued the forces of nature and made them subservient to 

 his will ; when, by the use of improved machinery in the 

 useful arts, the productive power of man is multiplied a 

 hundred or even a tliousand fold; when manufacturers are 

 eagerly seeking for new machinery wliich, at the same time 

 that it effects a saving of labor, enhances the value of the 

 product through its greater uniformity and exactness, the 

 farmer is confronted by a necessity as imperative as the 

 law of self preservation or self defence, to adopt every valid 

 improvement in farm implements and machinery which 

 will save manual labor and tend to make his farm opera- 

 tions independent and self sustaining. 



It is an occasion for congratulation that the needs of 

 agriculture have engaged the attention of modern inventors. 

 Their efforts in behalf of farmers liave borne rich fruit. To 

 them farmers owe a debt which money alone can never 

 repay. A hearty acknowledgment of the supreme value 



