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pole ready for drauglit by a yoke of oxen, and inteuded for use in 

 the forest and on the farm. 



Its peculiarities of excellence are as follows : 



1. Compactness of form for convenience of moving about. 



2. Large fire box for burning green or dry wood, or coal. 



3. Large water way for safety in common workmen's hands. 



4. Simple and safe mode of supplying water without a pump. 



5. Practical portability, and easy and safe management in the 

 hands of any intelligent woodsman or farmer. 



A portable steam cross cut saw, detached from the boiler, and 

 receiving its steam through a flexible hose of 100 or 200 feet in 

 length. 



Its peculiarities of excellence are as follows : 



1. Extreme simplicity of construction and consequent ease of 

 management by any intelligent woodsman or farmer. 



2. Adequate strength, with light weight and easy portability. 



3. Easy and quick attachment to the tree or log in any position. 



4. Flexibility of the machine when at work, and tendency to 

 work itself into line of action instead of out. 



5. Thorough practical adaptation to its uses in sawing down^ 

 and sawing up trees into any desired length, when used in con- 

 nection with the boiler above described, and the flexible hose to 

 conduct the steam. 



A portable farm engine detached from the boiler and mounted 

 on a pair of small cart wheels, three feet in diameter, in a wood 

 frame, receiving its steam through a flexible hose 100 or 200 feet 

 in length and attached to the portable boiler, described above as 

 article first of our exhibition. 



Its peculiarities of excellence are as follows ; 



1. Simplicity of construction, and easy and safe management 

 by any intelligent farmer. 



2. Practical portability, and facility of application to various 

 kinds of work, such as threshing and grinding grain, cleaning and 

 ginning cotton, making shingles and staves in the woods, kc. 



3. Safety from fire, the hose permitting the boiler to remain at 

 a safe distance from the barn or other combustibles. 



l^^ gold medal awarded. 



