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plish the work. I have used the implement called the hay 

 sweep for twenty years. It is made as follows : 



HAY SWEEP. 



Main scantling ten feet long, four by five inches ; one above 

 same length, three by four inches ; these two should be three 

 feet apart, connected by seven upright bars three feet long, one 

 by two inches. The teeth are flat, five feet long, projecting 

 two and one-half feet each way, and tapering to the ends, so as 

 to easily run under the winrow. To each end of the rake 

 should be attached a gate, swinging half way around, on very 

 stout hinges. These gates consist of two pieces of scantling, three 

 inches square and three feet long, united by two wooden bars, 

 one by two inches, and a third at bottom, three inches square, 

 tapering upwards like a sled-runner, these runners projecting 

 a few inches beyond the gate. The whiffletrees are fastened a 

 little above the middle of the gates, where the horses are 

 attached. 



Thus the horses pass along, one on each side of the win- 

 row, drawing this rake, which scoops up the hay as they go. 

 When full, they draw it to the barn or stack, and the horses 

 turning about at each end, cause the gates to make a half-cir- 

 cle, draw the teeth away from the hay, and go for another 

 load, the teeth on opposite sides being thus used alternately. 

 I consider it a great labor-saving machine, which should be used 

 by all who stack in the field. With two boys and two horses, 

 more hay can be hauled to the stack in half a day than by twb 

 wagons wilh a good man to work them. 



HOGS. 



The Poland Chinas have been favorites, for several years, 

 with the majority of farmers in these parts, and are decidedly 

 a first-class breed. But of late the cholera has made such 

 havoc with them, that we are beginning to think there has 

 been too much in-breeding, so we are crossing with the Berk- 

 shire. Whether we are getting a more healthy hog by so 

 doing, is a question. I believe that eight times out of ten the 

 owner is to blame, permitting his hogs to become diseased from 



