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cut in oiit day by tlie^ machine ; three additional laborers will be 

 sufficient and ample for turning, raking and cocking the ten acres. 



Then the labor of ihe'4 men is equal to . , < .$4 00 



1 team, say, 1 50 



Int. on cost of the machine, wear and tear, say 15 per 



cent per annum, to sink the cost in ten years, $15; 



this amount divided equally to ten harvest days is 



equal to a daily charge of* 1 50 



Cost of cutting and making ten acres of hay, of two tons 



per acre by a machine, $7 00 



The difFerence in favor of the Mowing Maching is therefore a 

 saving of labor equal in value to thirteen dollars per day, and upon 

 every ten acres of grass land, the gain upon each ton is sixty-five 

 cents. 



Attention is thus drawn to the economy of Mowing Machines, 

 that all interested may make estimates for themselves based upon 

 wages and compensation directly applicable to their own locality, 

 the above rates being adopted from the customs and pratices of 

 many farmers in the center of the State. 



REAPING MACHINES. 



A few years have passed since Reaping Machines were success- 

 fully introduced into the State of xVew-York. Since their intro- 

 duction they have multiplied greatly in the grain-growing dis- 

 tricts. Year after }ear, ingenuity, stimulated by demand, has 

 attempted improvements, and as a measure of the excitement, it 

 may be stated that fifteen patents were issued from the govern- 

 ment office i'or Reaping Machines in the year 1850-"51. 



These Reaping Machines are not confined as heretofore, to the 

 cutting of wheat, barley and oats: they are constructed for har- 

 vesting Indian corn, stri}»ping the ears from the stalks ; for cut- 

 ting or removing tlie corn stalks; also fur harvesting cotton 

 stalks, hemi) and j^rasse.-'. 



•No eatimatc i.smade of Uio wear and tear of scjrtbcs, suatL^, io. 



