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ture, but the idea of a double mould board struck thera as a 

 valuable novelty worthy of recognition. 



E. S. Flint of Danvers exhibited a Hand Corn Planter. 

 This implement appeared to do its work well for hill planting, 

 for which it was evidently designed, but why will farmers 

 plant in hills, either corn or potatoes, when drill planting has 

 been proved to yield greater crops, while with modern imple- 

 ments the crops thus planted can be cultivated at less expense ? 

 Isaac Little, of Newbury, exhibited a patent Horse Hitch, 

 which struck the committee as likely to be a good thing with a 

 class of horses, though, as was suggested, it would be likely to 

 do best with those horses that do not need hitchings. Still the 

 great importance of encouraging any device that might prevent 

 some of that class of deplorable accidents with which the daily 

 press teem, led the committee to recognize it with a premium. 



It was a matter of some surprise that no specimen of the 

 Manure Spreading Cart was on exhibition. The Chairman has 

 two in use on his Middleton farms, and is exceedingly pleased 

 with them. No hand work can compare with what they do, 

 either in rapidity or thoroughness of work. The manure is 

 torn into fine particles which flow in a continuous stream from 

 the rear of the cart. The bottom is an endless apron which 

 passes the manure to the rear, where it is torn asunder and scat- 

 tered in a fine shower by a revolving cylinder set with spikes, 

 which extends the width of the cart. The coarsest, the rough- 

 est and the toughest of manures are all mastered by it. Three 

 men loaded and spread forty loads of rough compost in a day, 

 when the land was not far from the manure heap. As every 

 practical farmer knows, fine manure thoroughly spread, is 

 worth to him a quarter more than the same half scattered in 

 coarse lumps ; while the great fault of three-fourths of ordinary 

 farm-hands, that of leaving the manure twice as thick where 

 the heaps were dropped as on the remainder of the field, is 

 completely obviated by this valuable machine. In its practical 

 value to the farmer, the Chairman would rank it with the mow- 

 ing machine and hay tedder. 



