Excerpt from The Farm Journal and Progressive Farmer, 1857, Vol. 7: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural EconomyThere are annually manufactured in the United States shovels, or about 600 dozen per day. They are made entirely in this country, about one third the number in Massachusetts, and nearly all the rest in Pennsylvania. As the shovel is one of the civilizers of the world, the annual demand for that useful article shows how much the people of the United States are contributing by their labor, towards improving the social condition of mankind.At the late Indiana State Fair seven corn mills were tested together. Each mill was made to use eleven feet lever, and to perform twenty revolutions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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