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winter suffers more or less from the same canse. We do not believe 

 it would be far out of the way to say tliat half of the manure is car- 

 ried off in this manner. 



The second source of waste is by evaporation of the volatile por- 

 tions. How much goes* into the air in this way, to poison it for 

 breathing purposes, and to be lost to the farmer, would be difficult to 

 tell. But any one who v.-ill observe how heavily the air is loaded with 

 this volatile portion, in stables an.d about barn-yards, cannot fail to 

 be convinced that it is no trilling quantity. By exercising proper 

 care in saving barn-yard manure, m.any farmers can accumulate more 

 jirofit than in any other way. 



Geometrical IIaerow^ 



, Mr. KelsGT exhibited a model of a new harrow, having the 

 geometrical form of two equilateral triangles, one placed behind the 

 other. The harrow had a scraper hitched on behind, and the scraper 

 , had n handle sticking up at its rear end. Mr. Kelsey stated that the 

 machine would pulverize the ground twice in passing over -it once. 

 "When you didn't want to drag in grain any more, you could take off 

 the scraper and work on the road or dig cellar with it. 



Wm. S. Carpenter. — I consider the common harrow a very defect- 

 ive implement for the piilverization of the soil. I have tested a 

 rotary harrow, which operates in a very superior manner, and I think 

 that the time is coming when the rotary system will be very extensively 

 adopted in instruments of tillage. 



Universal "Wheel Plow. 



Mr. Cowen, of Kew Orleans, La., exhibited a small modelof a wheeled 

 plow, which he stated to be now in process of construction in Brook- 

 lyn, K. Y. Tlie model showed a frame furnished with plowing Shares 

 that could be raised, or lowered to cultivate any depth dasired. The 

 apparatus is also furnished with a seat for the driver, and over the 

 seat is a top which is intended to be placed flat when used as a shade, 

 and be turned up in a vertical position when " running before the 

 wind," but for what purpose did not clearly appear. The inventor 

 wished for an expression of opinion as to the merits of the machine, 

 but was counseled to await the completion of the trial apparatus, 

 wdien a committee may be appointed to examine and report upon it. 



