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Show The Chicago Iribimr says : "The extent to which those labor-saving implements im-plements have been introduced in agriculture we nw illustrated a day or two ago''-n Wisconsin. A farmer was sealed on a reaper, with gloves on his hands, tn uni'-reila ovt-r him, and, with an lijuch eotullrt as if driving a buggy, he was cutting oats, the reaper throwing them into regular and convenient con-venient 'heaves for binding and tracking. track-ing. W u remember the lime when, twenty j-vars ago, we cut oats without an nuibifila or gloves, and let the erain lay where it fell from the scythe. Vet here was a man with a paii of hurees, in comparative comfort, doing more in one day than twenty-live men could have done by hand twenty years ago." |