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FAKM IMPLEMENTS. 



GEORGE B. LORTNG'S STATEMENT. 



Record of Work of Mowing Machines, manufactured by Ruggles, Nonise 

 Mason & Co., and by Henry, Rice & Co., in the year 1855, patented b}' 

 Ketchum, and by Russell, in the year 1855, the cost price of which 

 was $— ; owned or worked by George B. Loring, of Salem, who has 

 entered the same for the premium offered by the Essex Agricultural 

 Society : 



Accidents. 



Oxen 2^00 



Wheel slip'd 



Kuives failedi 

 to cut. 



Broke 1 &n^ev 



How 

 Repaired. 



Jliscellaneous 

 Kemarks. 



Replaced by Used Russell's Machine 



driver 

 Rteplac 'd by 



machinist 

 Obtain'd an- 

 other in Bost 

 Keyed by the 

 driver 



Irreparable 



cut poorly 



Replac'd in 

 the field 



Broke pin toRepairetl by 

 connect'g rod blacksmith 



Broke lfingerF^PJ'^F'^^1 ^^^ 

 ° I driver 



Broke 2 fin'g 



warped bar 



Broke fijiger 

 and piU' 



Broke finger 

 and pin. 



Broke finger 



and knite 

 Broke 2 fine's 



Replc'd fing'r 



Replc'd fing'r 

 got pin at 

 blacksmith. 



Replc'd fiog'^r 



got supply 



steel pins 



Repaired by 



driver 

 Not repau'ed 



Abandon'd the machine 



Cora, using Ketchnm 

 Ground rough,grass dry- 

 cut easily 

 Grass heavy, bottom 



thick, cut well 

 Cut well and easily for 



horses 

 Ground stonj', grass fine 



and light 

 Grass heavy and ripe, 

 ground rough & stony 

 Rough rechn'd meadow 

 horses worked easily. 

 Grass two tons to an 

 acre; ground rough; 



cut well. 



Horses worked with 



great ease. 



Used dupl. kaife-bar. 

 Salt Grass, cut easily 

 and economically. 



Total number of acres cut, &8 ; in 50 hours and 10 minutes. Russell's machine cut 

 6 1-2 acres in S hours and 15 minutes; Ketchum's, 51 1-2 acres in 43 hours 55 mins. 



I make the above returns of mowing done upon the Pickman 

 farm, in Salem, during the present season. I have used two ma- 

 chines, as the record will show. Russell's machine, with which I be- 

 gan, occupied much of my time in the early part of the season, and 

 after a faithful trial of it, in which I endeavored to give the inven- 

 tor every opportunity to arrange it for use, I was obliged to aban- 



