. The Plough, the loom, and the anvil. ing the hot summer months. This, I believe,, is the only, or at leastthe principal purpose to which it is applied in this country, and never forcooling wine, water, or making ices, as we do in Europe. PATENT CENTRE-DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 133 THE GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE GREAT IMPLE-MENT OF AGRICULTURE. It is considered due to agricultural history, to preserve, in favor of agreat invention, the following testimony from one among the most intelli-gent, judicious, and estimable cultivators of the soil, with whom we havehad the happiness to become acquainted. In any
. The Plough, the loom, and the anvil. ing the hot summer months. This, I believe,, is the only, or at leastthe principal purpose to which it is applied in this country, and never forcooling wine, water, or making ices, as we do in Europe. PATENT CENTRE-DRAUGHT PLOUGH. 133 THE GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE GREAT IMPLE-MENT OF AGRICULTURE. It is considered due to agricultural history, to preserve, in favor of agreat invention, the following testimony from one among the most intelli-gent, judicious, and estimable cultivators of the soil, with whom we havehad the happiness to become acquainted. In any country, governed as all countries shou]d be, in the nearest possi-ble conformity to the pubhc interest, Mr. Prouty, for this invention, wouldbe placed by the public authority, and by the public esteem, far above anyinventor of the instruments of human destruction, as they are placed, amongbarbarians, in advance of all others. But, alas ! they are not savagesonly who give precedence to the art and the practice of shedding The Prouty & Mears Patent Centre-draught Plough. Lexington, Mass., February 25, Mr. James Peddeii, Dear Sir:—You ask my opinion of the Cejtthe-dhaught Plough. I give it freelyand in a few words. If my opinion of its merits will, in any measure, induce my bro-ther farmers to adopt this, in preference to any other plough now in use, I shall feel thatI have rendered an important service to tlie public, and, at the same time, contributedmy share toward the discharge of the debt of gratitude due to the inventor of this inva-luable inijirovement, in an implement of so great importance to agriculture. I have, for twenty-five years past, personally superintended my own estate, part of•which I have annually had under tlie plough. I have tried English, Scotch, and everyvariety of American ploughs, and presume I shall be excused for saying, that I considermyself a competent judge of their relative value in the hands of farmers. The applica-tion
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