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Txhere is no power lost in tliis implement, it is like forking 

 -over the soil, and will work three feet wide and fifteen inches 

 deep, with one pair of oxen, rendering the land more pulveru- 

 lent than a dozen pLmghings. 



Mr. Mechi said the plough is doomed, in speaking of Samuel- 

 son's machine; yet this is much more perfect. In his machine 

 much is lost by friction of gearing; in this there is none; the 

 weight of the machine trips the teeth and throws them out. His 

 machine requires six horses, this two oxen. English farmers pay 

 40 shillings an acre for spading, and 20 shillings for ploughing, 

 and find their account in the extra cost of the work. The Harsi- 

 mus gardeners, who raise vegetables for this market, pay |75 an 

 acre rent. They could not pay half of that if they depended 

 upon the plough alone. By the spade they get three or four 

 crops in a season. True, they manure high, but that is not all. 

 Unless you render your land pulverulent you might as well put 

 your manure in the garret to raise potatoes in the cellar. Land 

 that is well forked up will produce more without manure than 

 poorly ploughed land will with it. 



Now, if we find that this machine, as I predict it will, can do 

 the work of the man with a f »rk rapidly and easily, the grand 

 desideratum has been reached, and fcr much of the work of the 

 farm the plough is doomed, but not as Mr, Mechi thinks for all. 



Solon Robinson — I stated the other day how we tried that sub- 

 soil plough in a compact hard clay road, and that a yoke of oxen 

 walked right along, tearing up great cakes of earth. If this ma- 

 chine had followed the plough the teeth would have penetrated 

 the disintegrated mass, and rendered the surface of that beaten 

 path fine enough for any ordinary crop. No amount of plough- 

 ing would have done as much, and the harrow would only stir 

 the clods about. These statements and explanations were re- 

 ceived with marked attention by the gentlemen present. 



WAS^ FOR TREES. 



Heat one pound of sal soda to redness in an iron pot, and dis- 

 solve it in a gallon of water. This wash will take off all the 



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