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diment to its passage, and would have to be 

 avoided. On a hill side where a cart can travel 

 easily the machine will work well. We have 

 it from the best authority, that this machine will 

 cut from fifteen to twenty acres a day with great 

 ease ; its great merit, however, is not only in 

 the quantity of labor performed, but in the clean- 

 ness of cut. In this respect it is so far superior 

 to the old mode of cradling, that many have 



reckoned that the saving in a large crop would 

 more than repay the expense of the machine. 



Since the receipt of the letter above we have 

 seen some very strong testimonials from farmers 

 in New York to whom Mr. M'Cormick has 

 been exhibiting it. In fact, it wins golden opi- 

 nions wherever it goes, and we sincerely hope 

 that the ingenious and enterprising inventor may 

 pocket a great many of them. 



HARROW 



[Fig. No. 3.] 



In an old number of the Cultivator we find 

 the following description of an implement, that 

 we know by experience to be a very useful one: 



J. Buel : 



Dear Sir, — The drag or harrow, here de- 

 scribed, is the best implement for the cornfield, 

 market garden and " truckpatch," I have ever 

 seen. It is preferred to and takes the place of 

 the cultivator, where both are known, the supe- 

 riority consisting mainly in the circumstance of 

 its getting deeper into the ground and leaving it 

 in a situation much less likely to bake. I ob- 

 tained a drawing and description from my bro- 

 ther in Maryland for the benefit of this State; 

 a copy is annexed for the benefit of mankind. 

 Yours, with much regard, 



G. FlTZHUGH. 



JWadison, la., Jan. 1, 1839. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The frame is made of good oak timber, 3 

 inches broad on top, by 3£ inches deep. The 



middle piece is 3 feet 2 inches long — the clevis 

 hole seen at 4 is A\ inches from the end ; the 

 front tooth in the same piece is 10^ inches from 

 the end, and seen at 2 in a square long plate 

 with a round hole for the neck of the tooth, to 

 come through ; at 2^ inches from the hind end 

 of same piece is a vertical mortise, 2\ inches 

 long and 1 inch broad, for a post to support the 

 handles — the post is made of strong timber 2^ 

 by 3 inches square, and is 19^ inches long — it 

 has a tenon 3f long by 2\ broad and 1 inch 

 thick, to fit into the mortise at 1 — at 11 inches 

 from the shoulder of the post, commences an- 

 other mortise (in a different direction of the ten- 

 on) 2f inches deep and 1 inch wide, into which 

 is to be fitted a cross to support the handles, 

 tapered and rounded to go inlo the handles, 

 which fit on both sides of the cross, with f hole 

 about 2 feet 3 inches from their lower ends, and 

 extend back about the same distance, having a 

 round behind the cross to confine them together, 

 at 1 foot 5 inches from the upper ends, and are 



