72 On the Utility of Horse-rakes. 



form as those of a plough.* The horse is connected by 

 a chain to each end. The cost of materials to make a rake 

 of this description, would not exceed two dollars, and I 

 presume any carpenter, or wheelwright, could afford 

 them complete, for four, or five dollars, each. Some farmers 

 employ them for raking hay into winrow. But although 

 it is an expeditious mode, the hand-rake is more clean- 

 ly. This instrument is most important in the grain field 

 after the harvest is off. It not only combs the stubble, 

 and gives the grass a much better opportunity to grow, 

 but it saves an astonishing quantity of grain. The sub- 

 joined statements obtained from persons of respectability, 

 who thus glean their fields, are sufficient to establish the 

 reputation of the horse-rake , and ought to recommend it 9 

 to universal adoption. 



Be assured of my respect. 



Roberts Vaux. 



* The Rake presented to the Society sometime since, and now in 

 the room where it meets ; if my memory is correct, was brought 

 from Long-Island. It is inconveniently large, and clumsy. A rake 

 of the dimensions I have given, is found by experience to answer the 

 best purpose. 



R. V. 



