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trees and brush. The best thing I know of to remove brush 

 is to have a good strong plough and a strong team, and 

 plough up the bushes by the roots. In removing white 

 birches, where they grow in clumps, take two sticks three by 

 four, cross them and bolt them together near one end, and 

 stand the frame about a foot or a foot and a half from the 

 clump of white birches, throw a chain over the top and hitch 

 it around the clump of birches, and one horse will generally 

 pull them out easily. 



Professor Sanborn. How do you make the hitch ? 



Mr. CoE. Put the chain around just as you would around 

 a log or stone. / 



Professor Sanborn. Throw it up over the top ? 



Mr. CoE. Yes, sir. Just let the legs stand on the 

 ground, and as you pull you get a lift just the same as you 

 get a lift on your axle. 



Professor Sanborn. Do those legs describe a circle ? 



Mr. CoE. Those legs stand a little away from the birches, 

 and your chain goes over so you can lift as you do over the 

 axle. It is the same principle that you apply where you are 

 removing very big trees. 



Secretary Sessions. I want to say one word more in 

 reference to the use of salt. There are, as many here 

 know, hundreds of acres of rocky pasture lands in Massa- 

 chusetts on steep side hills, that, unless something can be 

 done to keep the bushes down aside from ploughing, will 

 soon be of no value to our farms. I think those are the 

 places where salt can be used to advantage, not where the 

 land can be ploughed. 



Mr. Lee. Why would it not be desirable to bury the 

 rocks ? 



Professor Sanborn. It is more costly to bury them than 

 it is to handle them. With this machinery you can clear the 

 whole land for a very small sum of money, and I want to say 

 that every acre of land that is adapted for machinery ought 

 to be worth one hundred dollars, at the rate of interest we 

 now have, for interest is only three or four per cent, and 

 when your land is fitted for ploughing with machinery it is 

 at once converted into a possession of value. 



Mr. CM. LuNT, I have been interested particularly in 



