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barn. On this railway a small car is fitted to run easily from one 

 end of the barn to the other. The rope to which the horse-fork 

 is attached is fastened to one end of the car, then passes to the 

 further side of the mow over another pulley, and back again to 

 the car. If the mow be three hundred feet long, the horse-fork 

 will carry the hay back as fiist as a man can walk, and drop it at 

 any desired place between the front and the back side of the mow. 

 Many of our large farmers are putting up this contrivance in their 

 hay -barns, as they find it saves the labor of several men in mow- 

 ing the hay away in a long barn. He wished to send it to the 

 club for trial. 



The Chairman remarked that there were no conveniences here 

 for such a trial, and it w^as suggested that in suitable weather a 

 committee might be appointed to visit Mr. Fitch's place. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd said he was acquainted with the machine, 

 and it needed no recommendation, for it is all that is claimed. 



Wood-Sawing Machine. 



Mr. Jas. W. Havens, 1 Chambers street, exhibited a model of 

 Daniels' wood-sawing machines, to show farmers who are accus- 

 tomed to prepare their fuel with a buck-saw, how they may save 

 their strength, by being able to saw two or three cords of wood 

 with the same labor that is now required to saw one cord with a 

 buck-saw. The blade of this saw is stretched in the lower end of 

 a pendulum frame, and the edge is made circular ;. and the frame 

 is so constructed that the weight of saw and frame press the points 

 of the teeth into the Avood, and the saw settles downward as fast 

 as the kerf is removed. 



The reciprocating motion is given to the saw by means of a cam 

 secured to a journal, which is turned by the hand of the operator. 

 The cam plays in a frame just above the saw- Motion communi- 

 cated thus by a cam requires less force and much less machinery 

 and space than a pitman and a crank. In this consists the chief 

 superiority of the machine, over others that are worked by means 

 of a crank. 



Imitation Fruits. 



Mr. Julian Ledion, 629 Broadway, exhibited some beautiful 

 specimens of imitation fruits, consisting of pears, apples, peaches, 

 &c., reproduced entirely true to nature as to shape, color, weight 

 and size, of a material durable, and susceptible of being handled 

 and cleaned when soiled. 



