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unhusked corn on the wagon or cart. A liglit and easily adjustable 

 arm is hung to an upright standard, fixed on the wagon or rigging in 

 such a manner that it will swing itself rapidly to the center of the 

 top of the load when operated. A rope slings over a pulley attached 

 to the upper end of the arm, to one end of which is hung a light, 

 steel self-locking and tripping claw-fork. There are as many wrist- 

 pins as there are spokes in the wheel. 



The fork is thrust into the cock or mass of hay, which hiay weigh 

 from sev^enty-iive to two hundred pounds, and the team is started 

 forward ; the rope engages with each pin successively as the wheel 

 turns, thus elevatiug the hay above the shelving, when, by pulling a 

 trip, the arm swings in the hay, and the fork quickly delivers it on 

 the load. The hay in this instance was taken from the barn dry and 

 broken. The fork loaded it quite clean. 



In loading corn, a rope is hooked around the stook, and by a sim- 

 ple device the corn, when raised, is instantly tripped on the desired 

 point on the load. Cocks of hay from twelve to forty feet, or even 

 more, may be loaded, the team stopping but once to each or taking 

 it up as it passes. The machine loads as well on the sidehill as on 

 the level, and can be adjusted in a short time to any wagon wheel 

 and rigging. It is simple, not likely to get out of order, and so easily 

 manipulated that a boy works it, while a man, mounted on the load, 

 drives the team and places the hay, When driving into a barn the 

 arm is readily dropped. The machine will load, with all ease, in from 

 twelve to fifteen minutes, and the committee report it a great labor 

 ■a& well as a time-saving machine, much needed by our farmers. 



The probable cost of the machine, when manufactured, will be 

 about thirty dollars. 



The committee also witnessed the operation of a light and strong 

 horse hayfork invented by Dr. Lozier in connection with the former 

 apparatus. The fork is simple and powerful, locking itself when 

 thrust in the top of the load, and taking the hay grasped flush up to 

 the pulley at the center peak of the barn, then transferring it with- 

 out the horse stopping, along a traversing rope suspended from the 

 ridge-pole to the farthest side of the mow if desired. The fork has 

 three steel curved tines, has no projecting handle or trip in the way 

 while elevating, and carries the hay clear over the great beam of the 

 barn without material sagging. The traversing rope saves the 

 expense of a built car track, and with its accompanying guy-rope 

 and device, is a very cheap contrivance for enabling the farmer to 



