236 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Statement of Geo7'g-e W. Lyman. 



I have the pleasure to report to you about tlie working of the 

 Tedding Macliine imported by the trustees of the Massachusetts 

 Society for Promoting Agriculture. 



The machine has been used with great advantage, and has 

 given satisfaction to the. haymakers. No part of it has broken, 

 or yielded to the hard work done by it. It has been applied to 

 the swaths laid by the mowing machine when they were dry 

 enough to be turned and in the direction of the mower. If 

 grass is cut by the scythe it works best by being driven across 

 the swaths. 



The machine has two motions, communicated by gears in the 

 hubs of the wheels — one forward, which lifts the grass and 

 throws it above, over, and behind the machine ; tl^e other 

 motion is a reverse one, lifting the grass and throwing it 

 behind. Both motions lift, open and spread the grass, more 

 perfectly than can be done by a man and fork, and the machine 

 does its work as fast as a horse carries it forward. It is licavy, 

 does much work very quickly, and requires one good horse to 

 draw it.. I have been away from my farm much of the time of 

 haymaking, but I may safely say that the men who have used 

 it commend it highly as a labor-saving machine, doing its work 

 without any delay. 



Tlie machine weighs 1,090 pounds. Wheels, axle and frame- 

 work, are iron. 



"Waltham, September 1, 1858. 



ESSEX. 



Fro7n the Report of the Committee. 

 Next in importance to the power that guides, are the imple- 

 ments to be used in the labor of the farm. So many have been 

 the improvements in labor-saving machines, that he that works 

 without the use of these improvements, works to great disad- 

 vantage. In no branch of the labor of the farm, is this more 

 apparent than in cutting and curing the grass of the fields. It 



