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the coiintry, I nm forced to tlie conclusion that this machine 

 does not give the satisfaction one could wish. In my paper 

 last year I showed that where it was constantly used, the trees 

 suffered serious injury from bruising, and it is a rather signifi- 

 cant fact that in most orchards where it has been introduced 

 some modification has soon followed, or else it has been entirely 

 abandoned ; while in the East they still adhere to the improved 

 stretchers and mallet. It seems to me that the machine, as 

 made by your State Horticulturist two years ago, was not only 

 too heavy and unwieldy, but incapable of giving the requisite 

 sharp jarring rap to the branches of a large tree, without 

 causing too much injury to the trunk, and that if a modifica- 

 tion of it could be made to satisfy the peach-grower, there 

 would soon be a greater demand for such a machine. 



[Figure 2.] 



Back view of Ward's Cnrcullo-catcher. 



