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If these suggestions should excite the atten- except incidentally, with its pursuits, my object 



tion of those much better qualified to discuss all will have been attained, 

 the questions appertaining to the art of agricul- Your obedient servant, 



ture, than one, who has never been connected, A Merchant. 



HALL'S PATENT HORSE POWER. 



The engraving represents a horse power late- 

 ly invented by Mr. H. G. Hall. It is of the 

 treadmill character, and, as the patentee con- 

 ceives, is infinitely superior to any other horse 

 power in use. Its chief peculiarity consists in 

 the particular form of the revolving floor and the 

 use of friction rollers, by which the weight is 

 entirely taken off the axletrees. 



We take particular pleasure in bringing to 

 the consideration of our readers any improve- 

 ment in horse powers ; for there is no machine 

 for which there is a greater demand, and none 

 in which improvement is more required. As at 

 present constructed, they are heavy, expensive, 

 and complicated, very liable to get out of order, 

 and by no means adapted to the wants of the 

 farmer. 



Of this machine of Mr. Hall's we are hardly 



prepared to speak, having seen nothing of it 

 except a small model, which has impressed us 

 with a very favorable opinion of its merits. If 

 it is one half what the inventor claims for it, 

 there must be a universal demand for it in the 

 State of Virginia. 



It is only adapted to two horses, with which 

 Mr. Hall asserts he will do all the work that 

 can be accomplished with four upon any other 

 machine. 



We understand that rights have already been 

 sold in some thirty counties in the State, and 

 that preparations are now making for building 

 the machines in Rockbridge, Lynchburg, and 

 other places. Our citizens will thus soon have 

 an opportunity of settling its merits by that best 

 of all tests, experience, and we shall be pleased 

 to learn the result. 



