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actively employed in the dairy washing them a3 they are 

 returned here. No bottle is used until it has thus been 

 thoroughly cleansed. 



I have endeavored to heed the admonition : 



" Be not the first by whom the new is tried, 

 Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." 



New farming implements are carefully examined be- 

 fore they are purchased, and thoroughly tested before 



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being put into active service. I had, for instance, heard 

 much of a Hay Loader, and was induced to buy one. In- 

 stead of waiting until the haying season, when all hands 

 would be busy, and when time should not be occupied in 

 making experiments that could be previously made, I had 

 some old hay put in a "windrow, "and the loader tested. 

 A man was placed in the wagon to receive the hay and 

 distribute it in the vehicle, but it came in so fast that he 

 became alarmed, and fearing that he would be buried 



