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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[Jan. 



Had our mothers used instruments as light, elastic and polished as 

 these, when they accompanied their fathers and husbands to the hay- 

 field, we opine that they would have taught their use to their daujijh- 

 ters, and that it would not have been as rare a sight as it is at the 

 present day, to see the wives and daughters of the farmer cheering 

 his labors by their presence. If any rakes can tempt the ladies into 

 the field, we are sure it must be such rakes as these. Several pat- 

 terns of horse rakes were presented, each of which has its excellences, 

 and its friends, and all of which are capable of performing good 

 work. 



Hay Cutters. — Several patterns of hay cutters and stalk cutters 

 were exhibited. Gale's Eagle Stalk Cutter and the Self-sharpening 

 Hay Cutter appeared to us deserving the preference, and we accord- 

 ingly awarded to them the premiums. 



Vegetable Cutter — Entered by Parktr, White & Gannett. 



Vegetable Cutters. — The best one presented to our notice, was 

 in the collection of Nourse, Mason & Co. This does its work with 

 rapidity and ease, and leaves the vegetables in a better state than 

 any cutter with which we are acquainted. 'Ihe knives are short and 

 semi-circular in form, and reduce the vegetables almost to a pulp. 



