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On large farms, where sometimes whole meadows of grass are in 

 swath, or in a condition to be raked up, and clouds suddenly arise, de- 

 noting showers or a storm, it is well known what alarm is created, 

 especially when the whole reliance for guarding against damage is on 

 the hand use of the old fashioned rakes. On such emergencies every 

 individual within reach is put under requisition, women as well as 

 men ; and even the children c4d enough to manage a rake, are called 

 from the neighboring school hous3, to engage in the scramble. On 

 such occasions, when a boy, we have thus toiled till our hands were 

 covered with blisters. We shall never forget it. The necessity for 

 such panics and hardships is mostly superseded. The invention of 

 the horse-power rake is among the most important of agricultural 

 facilities for saving labor. Rarely will it happen, where one of these 

 rakes is on a farm, that there will be any necessity for the former 

 efforts alluded to in protecting mown hay against damage from rain. 

 Among the different horse rakes, we believe the Revolving Rake is 

 the best ; and, a man and boy in a day, can rake up the hay of fifteen 

 or twenty acres. 



REVOLVING HORSE RAKE. 



RHINOCEROS. The rhinoceros is an animal which ranks next 

 to the elephant, in point of size as well as strength ; it is usually found 

 to be about twelve feet long from the tip of the nose to the insertion 

 of the tail ; the same in circumference, and about seven in height ; 

 the legs not being near so long as these of the elephant. It is diffi- 

 cult to convey an accurate idea of this extraordinary animal, from the 

 singular appearance produced by the skin, which lies upon the body 

 in large folds, and looks like different coverings of shell, of a dirty 

 brown color, and so callous as to turn a cimeter's edge. From the 

 snout there issues a curved horn, which sometimes grows near four feet 

 in length, with which it is a match for the fiercest animals, though it is 



