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The Delaware Register, Or, Farmers', Manufacturers' & Mechanics' Advocate
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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Account of haymaking on Amos Hill's 21-acre farm in West Cambridge, Mass., where Mr. Hill, William Gordon, and Adolphus Harding mowed the hay in 32 hours despite challenges like stumps and lodged hay; five hands cured and stored 41 tons in a week, an unequalled example of diligence.
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Account of Haymaking on the farm of Mr Amos Hill, in West Cambridge, Mass.
On Monday the 13th inst. Mr Hill commenced cutting the hay upon twenty-one acres of mowing, including a lot containing six acres having in it at least 500 stumps and the hay of more than an acre of which was lodged. The mowing was done by Mr Hill himself, who had not mowed before for twelve years, and by Mr William Gordon, from Vermont, and Adolphus Harding, from Fryeburg, Me, in thirty-two hours, being equal to the labor of one man for ninety-six hours. Two other hands were employed in curing and getting in the hay, assisted in the intervals between the seasons of mowing by the three persons above named. Before the close of Saturday, the hay, which on the morning of the previous Monday, had been growing on the whole twenty-one acres was all cut and cured and stowed away in two barns, most of it having been pitched over the great beams. The quantity of hay thus got in during the week by five hands amounted by the estimate of good judges to not less than forty-one tons. This is an example of diligence and activity, probably unequalled in the annals of hay-making in New England.
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West Cambridge, Mass.
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Monday The 13th Inst.
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the quantity of hay thus got in during the week by five hands amounted by the estimate of good judges to not less than forty-one tons.
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On Monday the 13th inst. Mr Hill commenced cutting the hay upon twenty-one acres of mowing, including a lot containing six acres having in it at least 500 stumps and the hay of more than an acre of which was lodged. The mowing was done by Mr Hill himself, who had not mowed before for twelve years, and by Mr William Gordon, from Vermont, and Adolphus Harding, from Fryeburg, Me, in thirty-two hours, being equal to the labor of one man for ninety-six hours. Two other hands were employed in curing and getting in the hay, assisted in the intervals between the seasons of mowing by the three persons above named. Before the close of Saturday, the hay, which on the morning of the previous Monday, had been growing on the whole twenty-one acres was all cut and cured and stowed away in two barns, most of it having been pitched over the great beams. This is an example of diligence and activity, probably unequalled in the annals of hay-making in New England.