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horses. If, however, labour were scarce and waggons could not 

 foe employed, a boy with a pair of horses could keep the 

 collector going, and the extra man to pitch could be dispensed 

 with. When the collector arrived at the rick, the clover was 

 found to be tightly packed in coiled layers, and it was hard work 

 to pick it out and pitch it into the elevator. In America, no 

 elevator or man to pitch from the ground is employed, for, as 

 will be seen from the illustrations, Nos. 1 snd 2, the hay is lifted 

 by mechanical means.* The hay collector brings the hay to 



Fig. 3.— The Hay Collector in Use in England with an Elevator. 



the rick and deposits it on the raiser, the horses are backed off, 

 and by an arrangement of pulleys the platform of the raiser is 

 lifted by horse-power and the hay deposited on the rick. 



This method of getting the hay on the stack is an excellent 

 one in a dry climate where the ricks are humped together and 

 do not sink much after being made, and where they are not 

 thatched or built to any great height. It would, however, 

 require modification for use in our climate. The hay-prong 

 in some ways seems better than the elevator, as it can take up 



* A device of this nature adapted to the English elevator is described and illus- 

 trated in the number of the Journal previously referred to, Vol. IX., No. I, p. 6. 



