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side-stajs are lengthened out, making them between 7 and 8 

 feet long, by which means they must often interfere with 

 low-spreading branches ; and the position of the axle 

 being altered, it causes the frame to project about 18 

 inches beyond it. A machine so constructed they call an 

 " alleviator,^' but on what principle or analogy does not 

 appear very evident. Of this sort of machine I have no 

 experience : but I cannot perceive any good reason for 

 making such a change so near the centre of gravity, 

 which must always be in the axle ; as it seems apparent 

 that, in practice, it must make the tree more difficult to 

 be drawn down, and more troublesome to be balanced 

 during the transportation, thus multiplying instead of 

 " alleviating the planter's difficulties. 



SMALL-SIZED MACHINE. 



In conveying to the reader an idea of this and the fol- 

 lowing machine, it appears unnecessary to repeat the 

 diagram with reduced dimensions, as he will be able, 

 without the assistance of the capital letters, readily to 

 apply the sizes about to be given to the parts just now 

 minutely described, so that he may construct all, or any 

 one of the three machines, according to his fancy. The 

 description and uses of the different parts of the two 

 lesser machines, however, shall be repeated nearly in the 

 same terms as above, in order to prevent any intricacy of 

 reference from one to another. 



The specification and dimensions of the small-sized 

 machine are the following. The pole is only 1 2 feet long, 

 (including the iron ring at the point,) Si inches broad, 

 and 4 inches thick, tapering to 2i at top. The ring is 

 for the purpose of receiving the pole-rope, and is 3 inches 

 in diameter. At the top of the pole there is a small 



