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Title: Harper's weekly
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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THE INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH-LANDING THE CABLE IN THE MUD AT FAO, PERSIAN GULF.-rftis Page 502.) TRIAL OF MOWING-MACHINES. A trial of mowing-machinea as to their efficien-cy nnd draft camo ofTon the 25th and 2fith ofJuly, on the banks of the little river Bronx, atWest Mount Vernon, on the Harlem road. Thecompetition was for tho prize of a gold medal of-fered by tho American Institute for tho best mow- of (lie trial, and tho short time allowed for r grass, the month of June decid.-dly ollVringmost advantages. The horses should be ordinino great superiority of one team o* of work done all taken into consideration. Thebest farmers do not believe any thorough test ofmachines can be made in a day with picked men than tin- uvc-ragi.- i.f tlmsi? kept for sale. The trial, on the whole, resulted favorably formechanical interests concerned. It conclusively proved tl i iuMj.i ;l(Ur
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FS, Jmr 25 and 36, AT WEST MOUNT VfiBNOSf.—(SSBTCHHD *v A- R %v*Hr)0 August 12, 1865.) HARPERS WEEKLY,

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