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these runners project a few inches beyond the gate. The 

 whiffle-trees are fastened a little above the middle of the 

 gate, and should be raised or lowered so as to be exactly- 

 adjusted. This machine may be made for $6 or $7. 



In using, not a moment is lost in loading or unloading. 

 No person is needed in attendance, except the two small 

 boys that ride the horses. If the horses walk three miles 

 an hour, and travel a quarter of a mile for each load, they 

 will draw 12 loads, or three tons an hour, or thirty tons 

 in ten hours, leaving the men wholly occupied in raising 

 the hay from the ground, by means of another horse, with 

 the pitchfork. 



It will be obvious, that this rapid mode of securing hay 

 will enable the farmer to elude showers and storms, which 

 might otherwise prove a great damage. 



HORSE IIAY-FOKKS. 



Every farmer who has ever pitched off from a wagon 

 in one day ten or twelve tons of hay 

 is aware that no labor on the farm 

 can be more fatiguing. The horse- 

 fork, in its various forms, which, to a 

 considerable extent, has been brought 

 into use, has afforded great relief, 

 severe labor being not only avoided, 

 but much greater expedition attained. 

 The effective force of a horse is, at 

 least, five times as great as that of a 

 stout man ; and if half an hour is 

 usually required for him to unload a 

 ton of hay, then only six minutes 

 would be necessary to accomplish the 

 same result with horse-power. Actual 

 experiment very nearly accords with 

 this estimate. 



A simple form of the horse pitchfork was described in 



Fiff. 192. 



Origimd Horse fork. 



