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excessive, altogetlier out of proportion to the original cost 

 of the entire implement, suggesting the thought that the 

 manufacturer, knowing that he had you in his power, had 

 planned, when fixing his prices, to make the utmost out of 

 his victims. 



The Chain-geer Buckeye Mower exhibited by Messrs. 

 Whitcomb & Carter is very simple m its construction, 

 lighter in draft than the old Buckeye, and is easily thrown 

 out of geer by the foot. The same firm exhibited a new 

 style of basket for the gathering of apples and similar 

 fruit, of about the form and size of a peach basket ; the 

 bottom was divided into two parts, each joined to the body 

 by a hinge ; when the filled basket was lowered to the bot- 

 tom of the barrel a pressure on a wire projection on its 

 side opened the bottom. The same idea I saw worked out 

 in a fruit basket exhibited at the Philadelphia centennial 

 by a man from California, and the wonder is that it has 

 taken 20 years to reach New England. 



A wheel spring tooth pulverizing harrow, exhibited by 

 Henry Newhall & Co., with a straight tooth harrow at- 

 tachment, had a look of utility, and was said to do good 

 work. We regard the Russian farmers as but little more 

 than half civilized, yet they have an implement the equiv- 

 alent of which I have never seen at any of our fairs — a 

 harrow following a plow, and the two worked by the same 

 team. The result, of course, must be rough work, yet 

 under some circumstances the saving of time may make it 

 valuable to the farmer. 



Frye's horse hoe, a modification of the old Chandler 

 horse hoe, exhibited by Mr. Goodhue and others, is a great 

 labor-saving implement, especially for those who continue 

 to hill their potatoes or corn, for it will do the work far 

 better than by hand, in but a fraction of the time. It can 

 also be used to open furrows for planting, and to cover 



