Proceedings of the Farmers'' Club. 401 



teu or fifteen dollars, tlie farmer supplying his own wheels and axles. 

 As to the principle of suspending the plow between wheels, we are 

 satisfied that it is sound, and a great saving of power, in precisely 

 that department of farm labor where the economizing of brute muscle 

 is of the utmost importance. On Wednesday, the 14th inst., we went 

 to Harlem and saw the plow tried on a stiff old sod, and also on a 

 mellow, soft garden soil, free from stones, selected by the patentee. 

 It worked admirably. But your committee thought that, in order to 

 give it a full trial, it should be used upon a heavy soil. On the fol- 

 lowing Saturday a second trial took place, on a farm near Rahway, 

 before a number of practical farmers. One acre was measured. The 

 sod lay on a heavy clay soil,. being a mixture of clay, loam, and red 

 shale disintegrated, and mixed with stones of various sizes. Half an 

 acre was allotted to Mr. H. Moore, the manufacturer of the plow. He 

 geared it to plow a furrow seven to eight inches deep, by twelve to 

 fifteen inches wjde, which was two inches deeper than it had ever 

 been plowed. Fast stones were met with at intervals. The plow 

 detached some and rode over others. The other half-acre was assiamed 

 to a stout German, who did his best to beat the sulky plow, only mak- 

 ing a furrow six inches deep and ten inches wide. Mr. Moore accom- 

 plished his task in two hours and a half; while it would have taken 

 the other man fully an hour longer to plow his share. During 

 this last trial, four of the farmers present rode the wheel-plow; 

 two of them were over sixty years of age. The first one, after plowing 

 two furrows, exclaimed that it was a blessing for old farmers like 

 himself! and that witli this new improvement he would be able to 

 farm for ten years longer, as by its aid he would save about a hundred 

 miles of walking that he had to do iu plowing his ten-acre plot every 

 year. All present were* of the same opinion. This plow can be used 

 by one-legged returned soldiers, or by any lady without the necessity 

 of their adopting the bloomer costume. 



ADOLPHE PRETEERE, 

 JOSEPH B. LYMAN, 



Committee. 



Lozier's Hay-loading Apparatus. 



The committee appointed to examine this invention made the 

 following report : 



The machine Avas invented by Dr. A. W. Lozier, of New York city, 

 and is intended to elevate hay from the cock or window, or stooks of 



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