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wagon, or cart, elevates the hay without any extra help, as fast a« 

 two men can load it. The most laborious part of making hay has 

 been, hitherto, pitching it on the wagon by hand. But this hay 

 loader will supply a great want in the line of farm implements for 

 making and handling hay. Hitherto the chain of labor-saving 

 implements has not been complete. The mower is followed by the 

 tedder, which is succceeded by the horse rake, all performing their 

 offices with efficiency and dispatch. After the hay had been pitched 

 on the wagon by hand labor, the horse forks would remove it. But 

 now, the line of valuable machinery for making and handling hay 

 is so complete, that boys or light men, who are not able to pitch 

 hay satisfactorily, can gather a load of hay in a few minutes. 



EEPOKT ON Lennox's potato digger. 



The working of a new potato digger was examined by a com- 

 mittee last fall, and highly commended as a thoroughgoing and 

 successful machine. An opportunity was not then offiired of seeing 

 it work among heavy green vines. The committee reported that 

 they were now able to say that such vines offered no impediment 

 to its doing its work in a thorough manner, and the exhibition wdt- 

 nessed on Thursday, August 1, also enables them to say that this 

 machine is as worthy of the confidence of the potato-growers as 

 the mower or the reaper that of grain-growers. A description of 

 this machine was given in the report of last October. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — It should be stated that the machine dug 

 only a row and a half. A trial of this kind should be continued 

 till potatoes are dug by the acre. It should be added also that it 

 was in a field where hired hands were digging from forty to fifty 

 bushels a day with forks. Why it was not set to Avork in this 

 place should have been explained, though it was hinted that the 

 hands would have left if it worked. This is the only machine 3'et 

 made. There are other potato-digging machines, and to do justice 

 to the public there should be a trial this fall on a variety of gromid, 

 and by the acre, or ten acres; then it will give us an opportunity to 

 compare the various machines. 



A NEW COOKING KETTLE. 



Mr. Charles H. Burton exhibited an odorless kettle and cooking 

 apparatus, invented by Mrs. S. E. Saul, No. 172 Henry street, 

 N. Y. This is constructed with a tight cover, and has a pipe by 

 which the steam and odor of victuals in cooking passes down 



