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gentlemen has spoken about : the seed-sower, for instance. 

 If you are going to buy a seed-sower, look around before 

 you buy that one. I have used it myself from the first, and 

 it is a good seed-sower ; but some three or four years ago, I 

 said to a gentleman from Arlington, — and let me say here, 

 that when I speak of the best market gardeners of Arlington, 

 I speak of the best market gardeners of Massachusetts, — I 

 said that Willis's seed-sower was the best. I really believed 

 so, and I believe Mr. Ware believes so. But it is not so. 

 I had to back down. There is a machine that will do the 

 work better, and with less labor. 



Then in regard to the wheel hoe. I said the same thins: 

 about the wheel hoe, and I had to back out of that. A 

 gentleman made this remark to me when Mr. Ware was 

 speaking of the wheel hoe, that it went out of fashion about 

 the same time with pod augers. 



Mr. Ware. Other garden hoes of different variety have 

 been tried in our neighborhood, but no one will use them in 

 preference to the truckle hoe. I have got half a dozen 

 varieties. 



Mr. Moore. You can sow larger seed with the one to 

 which I refer than you can with Willis's, and do the work 

 better. 



Mr. Flint. I wish to say one word in regard to what Mr. 

 Ware has called a "drag." I have no doubt that it is very 

 valuable for the purpose he has described ; but I have seen 

 the machine used also as a substitute for a roller, and I took 

 pains to make one. It is a good substitute for a roller, to 

 use on a field after grass seed has been sown. I would 

 not be without it on a farm. It is one of the cheapest and 

 most useful implements on the farm, and will often save the 

 expense of a roller, that a great many farmers cannot afford 

 to buy. 



Dr. Wakefield. Before leaving this hall, I think the 

 Board ought to tender their thanks to the citizens of Worces- 

 ter for the entertainment they have given the Board, and for 

 the accommodation they have afforded us by this hall. I 

 move that the thanks of the Board be tendered to the citizens 

 of Worcester for their courtesy towards us. 



