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the vines as often with this as when using water or plaster, 

 the saving being in the time, the cost of material, the non- 

 injury of the leaves and the heavy work. The price of 

 the machine is eight dollars. The other new implement 

 I have alluded to is the Hallock potato digger. I have 

 used "Allen's" for a number of years and a year ago tried 

 the "Common Sense." Both of these require to be 

 followed by the hoe on all lands, let them be either clear or 

 weedy, but this new applicant for patronage on land clear 

 of tops and weeds does such good work that beyond har- 

 rowing after it, no farther digging is needed. The pota- 

 toes are thrown onto a series of long, open, horizontal 

 rods, that follow each side of the mold board from which 

 they are separated from the dirt and rolled off as the dig- 

 ger moves along. Where the ground is weedy I find it 

 necessary to remove these wings, when the work done is 

 about the same as that by the Allen, with the advantage 

 of being much easier to bold; neither of these cut the pota- 

 toes which cannot be said of the Common Sense digger. 

 The machine is sold at 120.00. This is one of the class 

 of implements it might be wise for farmers to own in com- 

 pany, for a day's work with it would dig the crop raised 

 on the average of farms. Let me be clearly understood, 

 to do its work thoroughly, the land must be clear of green 

 tops, weeds or twitch grass ; when these abound, it will do 

 no better work than the Allen digger, though it is easier to 

 work. It is not every good plowman can succeed with the 

 Allen, but any man who can plow, can handle the Hallock. 

 The work by all the three machines I have named, as far 

 as opening a furrow goes, is of the same class as that done 

 by a double mold board plow but better, in that it has more 

 of a scoop to it, opening a broader and more rounded side 

 furrow with the advantage of throwing out the entire crop, 

 no matter how scattering may be the habit of any variety 

 in growing its tubers. All kinds of potato diggers have 

 this great advantage over hand digging. They do not cut 

 or injure a fraction of as many potatoes ; the best of them. 



