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quired to get the best work of the different plows and har- 

 rows in the market, is a most important question for the 

 farmer to decide before purchasing, for an implement which 

 requires a pair of 1150 pound horses to do its best work, 

 cannot be made to do it with a pair of 1000 pound horses. 

 This is emphatically true of the wheel harrow, the sharp- 

 er the angle at which they are set when they do their best 

 work, the more hard drag there is to them, and no 1000 

 pound horse can draw them many days continually at 

 such angle without being over-worked. The dynometer test 

 made at the implement trial at the Gardner farm demon- 

 strated that there was a great difference in the power re- 

 quired by different plows when turning sod at equal 

 depths, and that the good quality of the work done as often 

 as not varied inversely with the power required to perform 

 it. By all means let the Society have a dynometer- 



The work accomplished by that agricultural 

 implement which in its dozen or more forms we 

 call " harrow," may be classified under four heads, 

 viz: 1st, to pulverize the soil after plowing ; 2nd, 

 to level the plowed surface ; 3d, to lighten the soil, and 

 4th, to destroy weeds. When depth of pulverization is 

 the essential requirement, there can be no difference of 

 opinion that the wheel harrows do the best work ; they 

 cut the deepest, and make the former hard labor of get- 

 ting sufficient soil on fresh turned sod to cover potatoes 

 cornDaratively easy work. We all can recall when the} r 

 first appeared on the trial ground at our annual fair, not 

 many years ago. They were then a great oddity, but 

 rapidly advancing from mere curiosity and wondering, 

 with our Yankee shrewdness we noted the quality of the 

 work done and gave them prompt and hearty welcome. 

 There is no country in the world where the real value of 

 any implement is so quickly recognized and generousl}^ 

 welcomed as in this bright land of ours. A friend once 

 told me of his experience in attempting to introduce a 

 new grain mill into Brazil. The large planters were in- 



