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of horses. First, there is the mower, then a choice of varieties 

 of horse-drawn machines for throwing up and turning the hay 

 — kickers, tedders, swathe-turners, and finally the horse-rake. 

 The rakes are of fairly simple construction, but the other 

 implements are of complicated mechanism, and all of them 

 require housing, repairing, painting, and lubricating. The 

 old hand -tools might all be hung upon one nail or peg ; the 

 modern horse machines must have a considerable range of 



Rkaping-Hooks and Fag-Hook 



shedding. And all these cumbersome things, involving so 

 much housing and care, are for use within perhaps four 

 weeks of the year ! 



One of the few changes in the form and use of hand- 

 tools that has occurred within my recollection has been in 

 those used for the reaping of corn. Before my time, but 

 well into the early half of the last century, wheat was 

 reaped with the sickle. It was shaped like the reaping- 

 hook, but had a finely-toothed edge. The under-side of the 



