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Assuming that 40 to represent the best work that can be done; No. 30, as representing the best work that can be done with a hand-scythe; No. 20, as inferior work to any that would be tolerated by a respectable farmer. The * For full details of this trial of Implements, we would call attention to the valuable report of John Stanton Gould, Esq., President N. Y. State Agricultural Society, and Chairman Committee of Judges, from whose report this article is condensed. gradations of work to be expressed by numbers intermediate to these. Standard speed, one hour per acre.