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ought to be remedied. After breaking three or four, I succeeded 

 very well with steel pins. 



In my record I have not included the time occupied in repairs, 

 as the accidents have not interfered with the amount of labor we 

 wished to accomplish with the machine. 



Even in a season whose irregularity of weather has prevented 

 my using the machine as much as I could have wished, I have 

 found a means of saving a great amount of labor. Seven men 

 have been employed on the farm, where we have usually had 

 twelve, or more, in the haying season ; and during a portion of 

 the wet weather they have been employed with the scythe, for the 

 want of other work. 



I would call your attention to the working of the machine in salt 

 grass, with oxen. It worked admirably. It moved easily over the 

 marsh, the oxen were borne with perfect safety, their speed 

 was sufficient, and the amount of grass secured was much greater 

 than that cut by the scythe on the same extent of surface. I think 

 a machine might be constructed with a wheel adapted to our softest 

 marshes, to be drawn by one horse or by oxen, which would save an 

 immense amount of labor, where so much labor is expended upon 

 so small a crop as our marshes usually yield. 



Salem, September 10th, 1855. 



POULTRY. 



The appointment of a "Committee on Poultry," with authority 

 to award the sum of $40.00 in undefined gratuities, was probably 

 never dreamed of by the venerated founders of this society. This 

 "department" of modern agricultural shows, was neither alluded to 

 in the annual address or proceedings for a good number of years, 

 and the yeomen of Essex, in those days, undoubtedly endorsed the 

 opinion of the Rev. Dr. Deane, in his "New England Farmer." 



