Labor Saving Machinery of the Fahm. 613 



Of haying machinery nothing need be said urging the 

 use of 



MOWERS. 



They are admitted a necessity by the most conservative. 

 The mower was the pioneer labor saving machine on the 

 farm. Its utility and value were doubted at first. The 

 prejudice against it was fortunately overcome before 

 the strong young men of the farms were called away to a 

 harvest of blood in defence of our country, else the grass 

 crop must have rotted in our fields. 



There is another machine of equal value, though not 

 equally indispensable in the hay field, 



THE HAY TEDDER. 



Grass will cure in time lying on the ground. But its qual- 

 ity is often greatly impaired by unnecessary exposure to the 

 sun, dews and rains. The injury by over drying hay is far 

 greater than is commonly supposed. Heavy crops of grass, 

 if cut early, must be agitated a great deal, else the surface 

 is burned dry and hard before it is all cured. The constant 

 use of the tedder keeps a heavy body of freshly mown grass 

 so light that it cures with surprising rapidity. The improved 

 quality of hay soon pays the cost of a tedder. Besides, it 

 saves one day of risk, often more, to storms, and does the 

 work of eight men, doing it better than they can (or will,) 

 do it. 



Improvements in farm machinery are no more conspicu- 

 ous than in 



