1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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MANNY'S IMPROVED MOWING AND 

 REAPING MACHINES. 



It is one of our principal objects to present to 

 tlie farmer such new machines and implements, 

 and improvements in old ones, as will best facil- 

 itate his operations, and enable him to transfer 

 a large amount of labor from his own thews and 

 sinews to the horse and the ox and the machine. 

 The suggestions of a scientific mind will enable 

 him to accomplish in a day, through the agency 

 of animal power, and a few cogs and wheels and 

 knives, what the exertions of twenty-five able 

 bodied men would fail to complete. 



The hay crop in New England is one of great 

 importance ; it comes, too, before the hoeing is 

 finished, while the duration of the period of hot 

 and drying days, when hay makes rapidly and 

 well, is not of sufficient length to allow us to 

 linger, or to neglect any modes by which the 

 work may be done quickly. 



A good Mowing Machine would be a blessing, 

 indeed, to the farmers of New England ; one that 

 would cut the grass and leave it in a suitable 

 condition to dry readily, and that could be man- 

 aged by a boy, or some one not sufficiently ath- 

 letic to handle the scythe. 



We present these sketches of Manny's ma- 

 chines, now, in season, that the reader may have 

 opportunity to learn of their ability to do his 

 work, by inquiry, examination and early trial 

 We have examined them with interest and care, 

 and, to our judgment, they commend themselves 

 We have not tried, or seen them in operation 

 Numerous certificates are before us from gentle- 

 men who have used them, and who attest to their 

 eminent ability to perform the work required of 

 them. They are for sale by Noxtrse & Co., 9 and 

 13 Commercial Street, Boston, where circulars 

 and minute descriptions may be obtained. The 

 price of the two horse mower, which cuts a 

 swarth of 4 feet, is ,$100.00 ; that of the one 

 horse, with 3 feet swarth, is $90. 



Poor .\nd Good Far.ming. — To plant without 

 manure, and sell the crop off the land, is the 

 poorest of all forming ; but to plant eitlier with 

 manure or without, cultivate thoroughly, con- 

 sume the crop on the land, and to secure to it 

 the benefit of all the manure, is the beginning of 

 good farming. 



For the yew England Farmer. 



PRICES AND WEATHER IN IOWA. 



Esteemed Friexd : — Having changed my place 

 of residence fi-om the sterile hills of tJie Granite 

 State, and taken up an abode on a fertile spot in 

 this State, I thought it might not be uninterest- 

 ing to the readers of the Farmer to contrast, for 

 a moment, some of the dissimilarities of the two 

 sections of country, as have naturally come to 

 my observation during a winter's residence here, 

 particularly as relates to the weather, &c. The 

 Farmer and other sources have not failed to an- 

 nounce that it has been a remarkaljle hard winter 

 in New England, not only as to extreme cold and 

 deep snows, but also from the want of employ- 

 ment for the working-classes of the community, 

 and the high prices of provisions. 



During the twelfth month of 1H5-4, and until 

 the middle of the first month of the current year, 

 we had occasionally a cold day or two, and then 

 warm again. About the latter date, more steady 

 cold set in. On the 23d of the first month, the 

 mercury fell to 8*^ below zero ; and on the 2Gth 

 of the second month, it fell to 10^° below. These 

 arc the greatest extremes of cold that have oc- 

 curred here, as reported by Job Briggs, a neigh- 

 bor of mine, a highly respectable and careful sci- 



