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were several excellent one and two-horse wagons on exhi- 

 bition, all of them a credit to the firms from whose hands 

 they came and well meriting a premium ; the work of dis- 

 criminating between their merits was for the most part one 

 of fine distinctions, into which the low hanging of the body 

 of the vehicles entered with some weight — for experience 

 has taught every farmer that in putting boxes or barrels 

 of vegetables into the market wagon the last inches are 

 the heaviest ones in the lift, and a reduction of these arith- 

 metically decreases the outlay of strength needed almost 

 geometrically. It is this fact, principally, that has made 

 the low running platform wagon from the west so popular 

 amonsf our eastern farmers. We were glad to see some 

 improvement in our old friend, Kemp's manure spreader 

 (the chairman, he had four of them), consisting of a 

 wooden shield to protect the distributing apparatus when 

 loading, and the driver's head from flying brickbats when 

 spreading the load. After one of my men had received a 

 bad blow from flying missiles I had a shield made to pro- 

 tect him, and so wrote to the firm, who then got out the 

 machine, to their wise profit it now appears. The new 

 Kemp has another new improvement which throws it au- 

 tomatically out of gear when the load is all spread. ^ It is 

 now made of three sizes, holding 30, 40 and 50 bushels. 

 The manure spreader in fining and in distributing the plant 

 food evenly makes it more available for the crop and con- 

 sequently produces results equal to those obtained from a 

 larger body of manure applied in a coarser condition. The 

 objection to it as a farm implement is, that unless handled 

 with more care than the average farm hand is likely to 

 invest in it, it is very likely to be injured in some part of 

 its cog wheel gearing, where repairs are costly. Where 

 farmers have run the machines themselves I have known 

 them to last for years with but little outlay for repairs,and 

 these mostly confined to the iron gear which holds the lugs. 

 Messrs. Colcord & Richardson exhibited several inter- 



