Show LABOR SAVED BY MOWERS AND REAPERS tre THE invention of laborsaving labor saving machinery of all kinds is characteristic of oui olli age and nation and in agricultural pursuits inventions for saving saying labor and time are numerous and very valuable our steam plows mowers and re apers and other inventions to facilitate the labor of the husbandman tend greatly to decrease his toll toil and increase his wealth the sacramento bee in a recent number presents the following statistics on this subject about mowers and readers reapers are annually manufactured in the united states and the average cost is for a mowing and for a reaping machine the average duration is five years this would make the annual average cost without interest 30 or for the machines in use this wear and tear of machinery represents the labor of men who at an average including board of 40 per month donld cost consequently v the farmers and the nation is annu annually atly enriched by the use of mowing and reaping machines cosay to say nothing of the greater proportion of the crop aved saved or of the more certain and vetter letter preservation of the crops and the release of the labor of men for other purposes As agriculture has been and still is the main branch of industry follow edby the people of utah the above facts and figures T are worthy their attention the th e majority of our foreign population having ing passed their baysin days in factories lacto facto rles iles arother or other manufacturing establishments and being forced to live from hand to mouth have upon arriving here been anxious to enter upon some pursuit that promised emancipation from such thralldom and the land and agricultural pursuits have offered ommer offer edthe the greatest chances for the gratification of such desires owing to the nature of our soil and other causes the pursuit of agriculture in this territory has required almost incessant and rigorous toil from those who followed it especially where unaided by labor saving machinery hitherto the importation of such machinery has been a matter of great difficulty owing to the time and means required forets for its transportation buethe but the completion of the railway ylli will prove of great benefit to our people in in this direction the cost of transportation will no doubt be reduced while the time required for its transportation will be very trifling so that we ma may reasonably hope before long to see me the most improved labor saving agricultural implements within reach of all our people who follow foi fol lowthe the noble pursuit of agriculture |