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expense of keeping them sharp aiid fit for use did not 

 exceed 5G cents each. The blacksmith"'s bill for ordi- 

 Dary wooden and wrought iron ploughs, for the same 

 work, would, he supposes, have been ^5 each. It will 

 te found therefore that not less than four shillings per 

 acre will be saved by these ploughs ; and the woriv done 

 i:i every respect better. He caiculales in the state there 

 »re 12,000 acres under the plough ; so that to save four 

 shillings per acre on this, will gave ^8,000 to the farms 

 cf the state ! 



Scaritiers are calculated to do the work of a plough 

 and a harrow. We believe that Mr. B'jrgess and 

 Mr. Francis are the only persons who have made 

 use of this implement in our part of the counli/.— 

 llr. Burgess says, that in ail ianfis free of stone, or where 

 the stones are loose, and not too large to pass ber^veen 

 the shares and teeth, and on which a crop has been rai'S- 

 ed, a man and a pair of horses or good oxen, will pre- 

 pare the ground and get in the grain on 30 acres in a 

 week. In England a man wiih four horses and die broad 

 scariiier has been known to do 60 acres of wheat in a 

 week. 



In the common method of doing this work, two men, 

 or one man and a boy, with a pair of oxen and a horse 

 are employed, and they hardly finish an acre per day. — 

 It is then to be harrowed or bushed or both. What will 

 it all amount to ? Probably fifteen shillings an acre. If 

 jdone with the scarifier, it will not cost two shiiungs an 

 acre. The use of the scarifier would save to the agri- 

 culturists of the state g 10,000 per annum ! 



We could name a number of instances in which la- 

 bour saving ma<;hines, for farming purposes, have been 

 confined to a few large farms, although as well adapted 

 for use on farms generally, and attended with much real 

 saving. In such cases the only apparent cause has been 

 the expense of the first cost of the machine ; and yet 

 the diminution of labour in the employment of such a 

 machine, would have amounted in many instances to as 

 niuch, in one year, as the machine cost. But if an indi- 

 vidual does not feel able to buy a corn-sheller, drill ma- 

 chine &c. several farmers in a neighborhood could unite 

 in the purchace and use them alternately. A naanuiac- 

 tvirerdoes Rot hold any price too high for an iu^prove- 



