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doubles that of America, our straw, it is probable, stands much 

 thicker than in the crops these Reapers have been accustomed to 

 deal with, so that both implements when applied to heavy crops 

 must be adapted to the superior farming- they will have to 

 encounter. At present we only know that M'Cormick's machine 

 is best for barley and oats, where not intended to be bound up in 

 sheaf; Hussey's for corn laid by the weather or standing upon 

 steep ridges. Mr. Hussey's can cut rushes, as was shown at 

 Windsor Park. Mr. M'Cormick's has received a prize this 

 autumn in the United States for cutting prairie grass, competing 

 then with two others. 



2. Horse-rakes. 



These are very neat implements, nearly 8 feet wide, running on 

 low wheels, drawn by one horse rapidly between the rows of 



Smith's Horse-rake. 



cocked barley, oats, or hay, and tipped from time to time, while 

 they move on, by a man who follows. One of them must do the 

 work of 10 or 15 women. They are common in many counties, 

 yet in others unknown, or, when made known, not adopted. 



3. Hay-makers, 



Every one has seen these machines tossing the hay high above 

 them : instead of this rapid action, if the movement of the frame 

 be reversed, they gently stir the grass without lifting it from the 

 ground. The saving of labour must be as great as with the 

 horse-rake, and the work is far better done. 



