j% On the Raijing of Red Clover Seed. 



of the clover heads, you then begin to colle6l them, which i^ 

 done by a machine invented at Brookhaven, in Suffolk county. 

 It is drawn by a horfe and guided by a man or boy, who will 

 coUeft from the field by this means, the heads of clover growing 

 on five acres in one day : the price of collefting is two fliillings 

 and fix-pence per acre. This machine is of fimple conftru61ion ; 

 it is nothing more than an open box of about four feet fquare 

 at the bottom, and about two feet high on three fides ; one 

 part, which we may call the fore part, is open ; on this part is 

 fixed fingers fimilar to the fingers of a cradle, about three feet 

 long, and fo near together as to break off the heads from the 

 clover {locks, which are taken between thofe fingers ; the heads 

 are thrown back into the box as the horfe walks on. The box 

 is fixed on an axle-tree, fupported by two fmall wheels of about 

 two feet diameter ; two handles are fixed to the box behind, by 

 which the man or boy at the fame time he guides the horfe, 

 lowers or raifes the fingers of the machine fo as to take off all 

 the heads from the grafs : as often fis the box gets full of heads, 

 they are thrown out, and the horfe goes on again. 



Another inflrument is ufed for colleding hay-feed, which 

 is called a cradle ; it is made of a piece of Oc^k board of about 

 eighteen inches lonsr and ten broad ; about nine inches of this 

 board, which v/e may call the fore part, is fawed into fingers of 

 about nine inclieslong ; a handle is fixed into the board on the 

 back part, almofl at right angles, inclining towards the fingers ; 

 a cloth is put round the back part of the board, which is cut 



