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Scientific American, Vol. 12, No. 43 (1857) (1857)

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be a reason vining rod is an arrant humbug, and those for this contradictory action in its perfor- using it, pretending that there is in the mance. rod a mysterious and unaccountable virtue, tm + are also humbugs. We know what we say, American Sait. and intend it, too. Not only will a twig of a The… … illustrated with ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS—all of cases, the more or less complex devices em- on the upright H, and may be raised and them engraved expressly for this publication’ Maryland. ployed to shake in the grain, are but poor All the most valuable patented discoveriesare delinea- approximations to…

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