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  AGRICULTURE. 
  

  

  ments 
  of 
  the 
  saw 
  are 
  now 
  made 
  at 
  a 
  single 
  cut, 
  and 
  

   afterwards 
  the 
  teeth 
  are 
  cut 
  on 
  them 
  very 
  accurately 
  

   and 
  expeditiously, 
  by 
  a 
  machine 
  nicely 
  adapted 
  to 
  the 
  

   purpose. 
  

  

  David 
  Greenleaf 
  became 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  earliest, 
  if 
  not 
  

   the 
  first 
  ginwright 
  in 
  the 
  country, 
  and 
  was 
  unquestiona- 
  

   bly 
  the 
  most 
  skilful 
  of 
  his 
  day. 
  He 
  settled 
  here 
  pre- 
  

   vious 
  to 
  1795, 
  and 
  soon 
  after 
  was 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  seen 
  

   and 
  examined 
  a 
  model 
  of 
  the 
  Whitney 
  gin, 
  at 
  the 
  house 
  

   of 
  Philip 
  Six, 
  near 
  Selserstown. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Greenleaf 
  subsequently 
  built 
  a 
  gin 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   neighborhood, 
  on 
  his 
  own 
  account, 
  upon 
  the 
  land 
  of 
  

   Eichard 
  Curtiss. 
  This 
  was 
  long 
  afterwards 
  known 
  as 
  

   the 
  public 
  gin 
  of 
  Edmund 
  Andrews, 
  and 
  formed 
  one 
  

   point 
  on 
  the 
  boundary 
  line 
  between 
  the 
  counties 
  of 
  

   Adams 
  and 
  Jefferson. 
  

  

  As 
  an 
  evidence 
  of 
  the 
  skill 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  our 
  early 
  gin- 
  

   wrights, 
  Mr. 
  Dunbar 
  may 
  be 
  quoted. 
  Writing 
  to 
  a 
  

   friend, 
  in 
  May, 
  1799, 
  he 
  says 
  : 
  "I 
  have 
  reason 
  to 
  think 
  

   the 
  new 
  gin 
  has 
  been 
  much 
  more 
  improved 
  here 
  than 
  

   anywhere 
  else. 
  The 
  latest 
  and 
  best 
  gins 
  cannot 
  injure 
  

   the 
  cotton 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  cards 
  might 
  do." 
  

  

  Eleazer 
  Carver 
  commenced 
  the 
  business 
  of 
  making 
  

   cotton 
  gins 
  near 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Washington, 
  in 
  the 
  Missis- 
  

   sippi 
  Territory, 
  in 
  the 
  year 
  1807. 
  

  

  " 
  There 
  were 
  then 
  no 
  labor-saving 
  machines 
  in 
  the 
  

   country 
  for 
  making 
  or 
  preparing 
  any 
  parts 
  of 
  a 
  gin. 
  

  

  ^' 
  Saw-mills 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  introduced 
  to 
  facilitate 
  wood- 
  

   work, 
  nor 
  forges 
  or 
  foundries 
  for 
  the 
  metallic 
  parts 
  of 
  

   the 
  gin. 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  gin-saws 
  were 
  made 
  either 
  of 
  inferior 
  sheet-iron, 
  

   or 
  forged 
  from 
  the 
  bar 
  by 
  the 
  hands 
  of 
  common 
  black- 
  

   smiths, 
  who 
  had 
  no 
  better 
  implements 
  for 
  finishing 
  them 
  

   than 
  cold-chisels 
  and 
  files 
  -, 
  and 
  the 
  making 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  

  

  