Show from life Illustrate Illustrated dJ 1 what I 1 have hive seen of rew hew agricultural tools reader header what have you seeni seeri seen heard or lear learnedly learned ln all your lifes experience that would be of service to mankind have you ii invented egied or discovered any auy thing new lue life liv grated lra ted yes I 1 have llave seen some things thing during some of loy iny my late experience of life that if known to my fellow men would be bb of vast ast service to mankind for they reach back to first principles and aud touch the arts of life to make lile life easier that is is make the productions of earth darth that enables civil civilized lize dinall man to sustain life in a state of civilization easier to obtain without these arts without tilo ilia aid of machinery to enable mail man to increase tile the productions of earth earths could not live for enre eare but two modes by which inen are fed one comes from the art of the tir e hu ilter liter and aud the other from the art of lila the husbandman NATURAL OF LIVING in all primitive countries cou con atnes there there are what may be termed natural modes of living such as the tire rude means ealis calls that savages employ to wild mild animals a ls ancl anif obtain fish or by the use of wild roots seeds nuts buds barks herbs sugar of trees or the disgusting diet of worms frogs snakes bimes and I 1 it unclean things such as are eaten by the californian digger indians not the tiie diggers of gold but lim the diggers of roots alid and snails III in all ail countries where the ilia inore more noble animals of the tile chuse chase such as buffalo deer antelope elk bears et genus have been hunted to the death inan man would be reduced to tile the miserable sub aub gi Stance of the tiie digger indians were they not enabled to increase the artificial productions of earth by the aid of those little machines macinnes and toi tools that somebody has invented that are all classed and aud huddled together toge lher under the general term agricultural implements this then is one of the tile things that I 1 have learned that broadway Bio bro adway and fifth avenue could not be built without the aid of the tire plow that this city could not be fed at this day if there had been no lio 1 inventors live titers liters workers since theddy the day that abraham plowed with wilh a crooked stick that merely scratched tile the earth in a soil that undoubtedly u resembled r e that of california at the tile present day in productiveness where three crops of barley grow from fron one poor plowing and arid sowing sowing such is not the tile productiveness of new now england englan d soil but it has lias produced that which has overcome its sterile nature it produced inventive men lnell men who have luven led plows FLOWS as ibe the first of all important earth working tools men who have devoted lives of toil and study to this thia work what a monument Cht JOEL NOURSE has built to lila ilia himself self seif more noble and aud more enduring than that of franklin upon boston common his name is printed upon ten thousand plows every state of the union he is all an original inventor improver and patron of inventors of all sort of tools that increase earths product productions idus I 1 am asked if I 1 have llave ever heard of any thing that would be of service to mankind yes I 1 answer I 1 have heard of enox of massachusetts not knox tile tiie general of honored fame but knox of a fame more honorable the fame of all an inventor and improver of plows the mail man to chome letters patent have just been granted for the discovery arid and application of a principle based upon accurate calculations in mathematical scie scle SCIENCE ice IN THE construction N OF A MOLDBOARD MOLD BOARD where others have left off knox has begun and now shows that a mold mo d boara beara a crooked curving twisting section of a screw fai fag in when scientifically constructed a series of planes and no matter how long or wide it is is jf if it is rightly constructed a perfectly straight rule will touch and make a close glose fitting joint when laid down ILI in the direction of tire tiie furrow slice this tills then is a discovery that will benefit mankind if mankind will think that a moldboard mold board a plow is simply a section of a screw that the operation of tu turning riling the ilia earth is just that of the r crew screw and tile tho screw as all know who tillah is nothing but a combination or rather succession of inclined planes ot of easy assent and every one of which in its section is as straight and true as the I 1 inclined pia pin planes ties up the mountain side by which t the I 1 ie ponderous elighie engine engene ascends to tile tha bumm summit it so ascends the eard earth from the harp wedge point the plow turning ils its regular screw twist 11 half alf air way or entirely over by which every particle of earth is disintegrated fram its fellow I 1 |