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FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



WILLIAM F. PORTER'S STATEMENT. 



Record of Work of a Mowing Machine, manufactured by John P. Adri- 

 ' ance & Co. in the year 1855, patented by J. H. Manny in the years 

 1851, '52, 53, and '54, the cost price of which was Si 15 ; owned or worked 

 by Wm. F. Porter, of Bradford, who has entered the same for the pre- 

 mium offered by the Trustees of the Essex Agricultural Society : 



Total number of acres cut, 116. 



The lots of grass enumerated in the above schedule, varied from 

 one half ton to three tons per acre, — average one and a quarter 

 tons or more. 



The horses weighed Aug. 23d, 2594 lbs.; they had at no time 

 while mowing the above more than six quarts of grain per day, 

 which was Indian meal ; they performed more other labor on the 

 farm, such as ploughing, carting manure, rocks, &c., than that of 

 mowing the above. All breakages and accidents were caused by 

 rocks that could not be seen ; and it is surprising there were no 

 more, as on several fields I run the machine against ten to twenty 

 heaps of small stones or fast rocks, in size sufficient to stop the 



