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American Implements, and 
suffer from wear and tear and corrosion, tl.at the consump- 
tion of iron alone per acre in England and France is from 
12 lbs. to 16 lbs. per annum, and that the interest on capital em- 
ployed forms no inconsiderable item in the balance sheet, one 
cannot but believe that it must make some difference in the 
farmer's profits whether he pays for his ploughs "21. or for 
his straw elevator 3/. or 60/., and for a potato-digger 21. or 17/., 
the price of the Scottish one. 
Various minor implements or appliances of well-known prin- 
ciples will infallibly meet the eye in every American establish- 
ment, all tending to the one end of saving work and trouble. 
Many of these are worthy of notice. The mere mention of some 
of them will be sufficiently suggestive, such as are friction 
rollers for the axis of the grindstone to revolve on ; rollers on 
which to slide back the barn door — a method very preferable 
to hanging it on hinges ; the water-ram, for raising water by 
its own impulse from the neighbouring brook (these, so little 
known in England, are very common there) ; washing-machines, 
and revolving arms for hastening the process of drying the 
clothes hunsr on them ; butter-workers and self-acting: cheese- 
presses ; lifts, which are much used in lofty houses for raising 
all weighty things to the different floors ; cooking-stoves for 
facilitating the preparation of the food and economizing fuel : and 
let us not forget the ingenious apple-parers for peeling, coring, 
and slicing up apples for the pie ; machines for mincing meat 
and stuffing sausages — these, and many other contrivances which 
it would be tedious to enumerate, all bear testimony to the un- 
paralleled ingenuity which our cousins have displayed in finding 
substitutes for that labour, the scarcity of which is the great 
drawback to their material prosperity. 
Keffwoi'th, Derby. 
Report on the Horse-power patented hj Isaac Haetas, of Wrelton 
Hall, Pickering, Yorkshire, and exhibited at the Ripon Meeting 
of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. 
A single horse-works, by Isaac Hartas, of Pickering, attracted 
a great deal of attention. The principle of this machine has 
been used for some time in America, It consists of a moveable 
platform attached to an endless chain passing over rollers at each 
end; this endless platform is placed so as to form an inclined 
plane, upon which the horse walks, and the platform recedes 
beneath the horse's feet. The platform has cogged "racks" 
attached to it, which gear into a toothed wheel, which drives 
machinery. In this case it drove a small thrashing-machine. 
