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three to four tons of hay to the acre. Mr. C. has obtained such 

 control over the water that there will be no difficulty in bringing 

 the whole tract into a high state of productiveness. 



Mr. Clap uses many labor-saving implements, among which 

 may be mentioned the Buckeye mowing-machine, BuUard's hay- 

 spreader, Palmer's horse-pitchfork, the wheel horse-rake, <fec. 

 He is well pleased with all these, but especially so with the hay- 

 spreader and pitchfork. The former, he says, will save the 

 labor of many men, besides drying the hay more rapidly than 

 it can be done in any other way ; and the latter is a great sav- 

 ing in the time required to unload hay, and a no less saving of 

 human strength usually required in the operation. At a trial 

 witnessed by some of the committee, a ton of hay was pitched 

 off in six minutes. The force engaged was a man on the load 

 who managed the fork, a horse wliich lifted the hay by a pulley, 

 and a boy to lead the horse. Two men took away the hay as 

 it was dropped from the fork. 



Water is brought to Mr. C.'s buildings by a hydraulic ram, 

 from a stream about eiglity rods distant. All the water required 

 for the stock, cooking for the swine, (and nearly all their food 

 is cooked,) washing dairy utensils, &c., is thus supplied. The 

 ram has been in operation for two years, and has not required 

 a cent's worth of repairs. This is a convenient and cheap 

 mode of conveying water, and might be more extensively used 

 by our farmers with advantage. 



It should be remarked that the cooking of the food for the 

 swine is done by steam, and that the boiler by which the steam 

 is produced, is placed in a building one hundred feet from the 

 piggery, where the cooking is done. The steam is conveyed 

 this distance by a pipe laid underground, and the food is cooked 

 in large wooden vats. By this plan the danger arising from 

 having fire near the barn is obviated. 



A portion of tlie committee visited, unofficially. Rev. C. C. 

 Sewall, of Medfield, the Corresponding Secretary of the society. 

 Mr. Sewall's farm is mostly of rather light soil. It produces 

 readily good crops of Indian corn and rye. Spring wheat has 

 also been cultivated with general success for several years. On 

 some portions of the farm, more moist than the rest, very heavy 

 crops of hay are produced. 



Mr. Sewall's stock consists mostly of cows, the milk from 

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