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On the Long Island Hay Horse-Rake^ by Mr. Reuben 



Haineso 



Read July 14, 1812. 



Philadelphia 6 mo, Sth, 1812. 

 Esteemed Friend, 



During my visit last summer, on Long Island, I 

 met with a horse-rake of a very simple construction, 

 with which I was so well pleased that I requested a 

 friend to get one made, that I might present it to 

 the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, and have this 

 day received from him. Captain De Groot's receipt for 

 the same, having been put on board the schooner Ex- 

 press, at New York, and now inclose it. 



The account given by the inventor is as follows : 



'* Description of a horse-rake used in the southern 

 ^^ parts of the state of New York, which in raking hay, 

 " on^ level ground, is believed to save the labour of six. 

 ** 7nen, 



" The rake is generally made of white oak ; the 

 ''head frame is nine to ten feet in length, and three 

 '* and an half inches by two and an half in diameter ; 

 '* the teeth are about two and an half inches apart, 

 ** twenty two inches long, and one inch by one and an 

 " half in diameter : — the one sent has thirty teeth, 

 *' there are seven small standards on the head, design- 

 '' ed to collect the hay, and are about eighteen inches 

 "high: — there are two curved handles, about three 

 ** and an half feet long.'* 



The great advantage that this rake appears to me to 

 possess over all others that I have seen, is, its extreme- 



