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causes. First, by stabling all cows and horses at night, and by 

 carefully saving all refuse matter that is usually thrown aside, 

 forming unsightly heaps. When you look around my farm you 

 will see everything that can rot is cleaned up and put into the 

 hog or manure pens. By thus saving, at a cost of but little 

 time, every farmer can make a hundred loads more manure 

 yearly than he usually does. I hear him say, " I can't stop to 

 collect all those matters ; they don't amount to much, anyhow." 

 I say, collect every turnip-top, green weed and animal dropping, 

 and at the time of planting or top-dressing grass lands you have 

 increased the year's crop five tons of hay, or fifty bushels of corn, 

 and one hundred of roots. Will you not have been well paid 

 for the labor expended ? If you are still an unbeliever, go and 

 see my manure pens. 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



No subject should receive more attention from those interested 

 in progressive agriculture than farm implements. It lies at the 

 very foundation of all improvement. We may have new ferti- 

 lizers, new modes of applying them, and increased products ; 

 but the cost of tilling and harvesting must be kept down by the 

 use of labor-saving machines, or there will be little or no profit. 

 So with the hay crop, for example — every implement that facil- 

 itates cutting, curing and gathering tends to make the crop 

 more remunerative. 



The greatest outlay on a farm now-a-days is for wages. To a 

 great extent these must correspond to wages in other occupa- 

 tions or our farms will be deserted. And yet every farmer — we 

 do not include market-gardeners — well knows that he cannot 

 pay extravagant or even comparatively high wages and make 

 both ends of the year meet. Hence he is greatly interested in 

 the substitution of horse power and steam power for man- 

 power ; and where this can be effected on the farm, it is no det- 

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