92 AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



REPORT ON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



The Committee on Agricultural Implements Report — That 

 the interests of the farming community require that individuals 

 of ingenuity and skill should direct a portion of their exertions 

 for the improvement of the common implements used upon a 

 farm, with a view to improve those already in use, or to intro- 

 duce others whereby manual labor may be lessened or saved. 

 And, from the almost universal patronage which has been given 

 to the improved ploughs, the committee are confident that any 

 valuable improvements in other articles will receive an attention 

 which will abundantly compensate for any expense of lime or 

 labor that an experienced and mechanical genius might devote 

 to any improvements in agricultural tools. 



There were but three articles entered with the Secretary, 

 neither of which, in the opinion of the committee, came within 

 the rule for premium. 



One was a straw cutter, presented by Pickering Dodge, of 

 Salem, very simple in its construction. It is believed by the 

 committee that it can be worked easier and will cut faster than 

 any article of the kind offered equally cheap — the price in ]\ew 

 York being ^24. They would recommend to the Trustees to 

 grant a gratuity of two dollars to Mr. Dodge ; and they would 

 recommend to all disposed to use a hay cutter, to examine this 

 presented by Mr. Dodge. 



Daniel Putnam, of Danvers, presented a harrow, similar in its 

 construction to the cultivator, except the teeth, those being like 

 the common harrow. From the experience I have had, I con- 

 sider the teeth of the cultivator preferable, and as the difference 

 in cost is inconsiderable, and probably in favor of the cultivator, 

 I would recommend that article, rather than the harrow. And 

 the committee are confident, from actual experiment, that it 

 would be for the interest of every farmer to use a cultivator, 

 rather than a plough or harrow, among all hoed crops, the teeth 

 of the cultivator being so shaped that they work the whole sur- 

 face between the rows, without throwing the ground into ridges. 



There were two wagons presented by Joseph Spaulding, of 

 Danvers — one designed for a pleasure carriage, the other for 



