1 50 HAYMAKING. 



As narrow wheels sink into the ground and destroy 

 miich grass, they should ne?er be used on meadow 

 grounds, but broad ones should be substituted in their 

 stead. 



Horsc-rakes are very useful on all smooth meadows. 

 It is said, a man, horse, and boy, will gather hay with 

 this implement, as fast as six men in the ordinary way. 

 The expense of the rake will not exceed two dollars. 

 It is composed of a piece of scantling three by three 

 inches, ten feet long, into which twenty-five teeth, one 

 inch by one and an half in diameter, nearly two feet 

 long, and three inches apart, are inserted horizontally. 

 The teeth should be made to turn up a little at the end, 

 to prevent their running into the earth. Eight pins 

 twenty-four inches in length are driven perpendicular 

 into the scantling, and into another light piece at top, 

 and there are also attached two handles, similar to those 

 of a plough. The horse is connected by a rope at e ich 

 end. When in operation, the teeth run along the ground 

 under the hay, and as they take it up the upright slats 

 retain it till the rake is full, when the man who holds it 

 turns it over, and thus empties it in a row ; then lifts it 

 over the hay thus emptied, and sets it in beyond it ; and 

 so on till it is again filled. When one strip across the 

 piece is thus raked up, the horse is turned round, and 

 another strip is raked in the same manner, emptying 

 the hay at the ends of the last heaps raked up, so that 

 in this way winrows are formed. The winrows can 

 then be dragged up by the rake into bundles, large 

 enough for making into cocks. This instrument is very 

 useful in the grain field after the harvest is off. It not 

 only combs the stubble, and gives the grass a better op- 

 portunity to grow, but it saves a large quantity of grain. 



Iq summer harvesting and mowing it has been too 

 customary to use ardent spirits. We are confident the ef- 

 fects of Pandora's fabled box never produced one half the 

 ills among mankind (even in story) that have ia reality 

 been occasioned by the fell products of the accursed 

 alembic, — " whose worm out-venoms all the worms of 

 Nile." Health and activity are to be looked for only 

 among those who use not ardent spirits. In harvest 

 time, or on any occasion of increased labour, farmers 

 could »ot use perhaps a more refreshing drink than milk 



