PRICE SIX CENTS 
82.50 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congteas, in tbe year 1872, by D. l>. T. Moor*, to tlio <»tti<:o of the librarian of Congress. at Washington.] 
gathering its own load from the field with¬ 
out any previous raking. 
Instead of the wearisome process of lift¬ 
ing tons weight of hay over tho big beam, 
or on top of a stack, by hand and backbone 
power, wo have numerous devices in tho 
shape of horse forks, with their riggings for 
carrying the hay to any desired point in 
mow or stack—a load being lifted into place 
in ten to fifteen minutes, with little effort, 
which it would have been diltioult to put in 
plaoe once, with great effort, in less than 
half or three-quarters of an hour. 
These contrasting pictures are given as 
records of progress made, and as evidences 
Then the limit of cutting down to-day is 
not governed by the amount of hand-raking 
force there Is available. Nor do wo see the 
wife und daughter impressed to aid in tho 
warm and weary work of raking just as a 
shower Is discovered portending. Kvou the 
old revolving rake, excellent as it is, is going 
into disuse, and Instead the boy sits upon a 
two-wheeled vehicle, and, with no effort 
but the pressure of feet or hand upon a 
lever, to unload, guides the horse and sweeps 
up the hay Into wlnrows, or hunches it for 
pitching, tile moment It is in condition. In¬ 
deed, our picture does not show what we 
have seen doing — a team driving along 
men at his heels trying to “cut him (and 
each other) out," rides his two-wheeled 
machine, driving his team and watching the 
grass full with a complacency born of the 
fact that he can thus do the right thing at 
the right time and the women folk have no 
extra cooking to do. 
instead of the inevitable boy, who used 
to bo kept out of school to stir hay, and who 
was apt to “break up bumble bees’ nests" 
and suck sweetened water and ginger 
through a straw most of the time, we see 
the Tedder, keeping the air full of the fresh 
mown hay and fitting it with wonderful 
rapidity for tho stack or the mow. 
HAYING OLD AND NEW METHODS 
We present on this page the contrast of 
modern methods of making hay with those 
of the earlier time, when we were boys. 
The scythe and whetstone, propelled by 
human muscle, have given place to the click, 
click of tho Mower, drawn by horses. Time 
is saved and the work us well done. The 
farmer, instead of swinging the scythe, 
through the forenoon with a half dozen 
