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Mr. Grinnell. It is the general impression that they 

 are. 



Mr. . Take the side-hill plough, for instance. 



Twenty-five years ago we could not turn a farrow on a level 

 plain with a side-hill plough ; we did not attempt it. Now 

 we can turn a furrow perfectly on a side hill, and we can 

 turn it almost to perfection on a plain, and have it level. I 

 think onr friend did not give Kemp's manure-spreader quite 

 enough praise. I have used it for three years, and found it 

 a very admirable thing for putting out our manures. It will 

 take our manures from under the barn, as they are usually 

 found, even if they be so soft that we can just keep them 

 in the cart, and spread them out in good shape, as I have 

 done the past year, going over an acre in about three 

 hours, — taking the manure from the barn, and going a quar- 

 ter of a mile with it ; doing it faster than you can drop the 

 heaps. And it leaves the manure so nicely worked up and 

 manipulated with the attachment, that it lies much more 

 evenly over the surface, and your crop is really enhanced by 

 the manner in which the manure is put on, being so much 

 more evenly done, and being worked up so thoroughly. We 

 find a great many hard lumps in our manure in the spring 

 of the year. If it is put into this spreader, it comes out fine. 

 On ploughed ground, where it is soft, you have got to take 

 more time, unless you are going down hill. My brother 

 puts horse manure on soft ground at the rate of about 

 twenty loads an hour, with the help of two men. 



Mr. Gkinnell. I have heard some farmers complain 

 that the Kemp manure-spreader did not hold enough when 

 they wanted to cart out the manure. I have become satis- 

 fied within a few years — and I know this is the opinion of 

 some of the best men I see before me here, and I have 

 heard them advocate it — that the better way is for the 

 farmer, in the fall and winter, when there is usually time to 

 do it, to haul the manure out, and put it in a pile on the 

 field. When you can do that, then you can take a manure 

 spreader in the spring, and spread that manure on your field 

 with great rapidity. Two men will spread it as fiist as a 

 man can load the manure. A load can be driven to the lot, 

 and unloaded in two or three minutes, while the other man 



