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performs feats far more difficult. One who has witnessed 

 the work of a fast printing press, as it turns off copies of a 

 large dailj paper, is prepared to believe that anything can 

 be done by machinery. 



SEEDERS, 



For small grain, broadcast seeders or drills not only save 

 labor, but give an even seeding and uniform depth of cov- 

 ering. Sowing grain by hand requires skill and pains-tak- 

 ing, and good judgment, and is very laborious. A boy with 

 a pair of horses and seeder, can, as he rides, sow double the 

 area tliat the man can do by hand ; and he sows it better 

 and covers it as he goes. The saving of labor and gain in 

 the quality of work soon pays the interest on first cost and 

 depreciation. 



In the grain harvest the farmers of Vermont are slow to 

 follow the example of their Western brethren in using 



THE REAPEK. 



The sweep-rake reaper is now so perfect a machine that 

 it will reap grain so badly lodged that it is with difficulty 

 that it can be mown with a scythe. Grain beaten flat on 

 the ground, leaning in any and every direction, is picked 

 up and laid in bundles ready for the binder. Nor is this 

 all. The self binder, a more expensive machine, reaps the 

 grain and binds it. A man or boy of ordinary intelligence, 

 with a pair of horses, reaps and binds twelve acres a day 

 with ease. If farmers will avail themselves of the use of 

 machinery, who shall say that we cannot raise grain in 

 Vermont \ 



