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The implement I used is a very simple affair. It consists of 

 a very strong beam and handles much like a plough, with 

 two curved steel prongs fastened on each side of the beam 

 and running down in place of the iron part of the plough. 

 These prongs are forced down in the ground behind and 

 under the bowlder. I hitch the beam to a pair of wheels 

 with a yoke of oxen, and I easily pull out rocks that weigh 

 a ton to a ton and a half. I bought a farm of one hundred 

 acres adjoining mine, which was full of bowlders everywhere, 

 and I pulled out as many as thirty or forty in an hour. I 

 put those bowlders on what we call a stone boat, and took 

 them to the wall, although many of them were used in 

 ditches for draining the land. Some of the fields of my 

 neighbors are broken up by little runs into little patches. 

 We dig drains in all this land and fill them up with rocks, 

 and run our plough right through. We cannot afford to go 

 around rocks and runs ; we started in for business. 



Mr. L. W. West. I would like to know whether that 

 machine will pull a white birch stump six inches in diameter? 

 Professor Saxborx. Yes. Most of the trees that I am 

 pulling are standing, though it will pull stumps. It gives 

 an upward lift. You hitch it onto your axle-tree, and when 

 you pull, it does not pull right against the face of the earth, 

 but this incline of the lift takes it out of the ground very 

 easily. My father, who was always inventing machinery, 

 took a common ox-tongue and made one for himself. 



Question. Would you use the same instrument in re- 

 mo vins; bushes from land ? 



Professor Sanborn. For sao;e growth and the ireneral run 

 of bushes I back the wheels right up against the bushes 

 and hitch up as tightly as I can, and pull the bushes very 

 quickly. 



Mr. Little. I would like to inquire what method the 

 speaker would advise where the bushes are too small to hitch 

 a team to them, for instance, elder, barberry or huckleberry 

 bushes. 



Professor Sanborn. Probably you can advise as to that 

 better than I can, but we use a heavy plough and root them 

 out. 



Mr. Little. I find that simply mowing them off once or 

 twice a year won't kill them. 



