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Th6 astonishment felt and expressed ^y British aultivators 

 "when two American reapers successful]}- laid the grain of their 

 rich fields in regular gavels, ready for binding, at the rate of 15 

 to 17 acres per day, is generally known; and it appears by re- 

 cent papers Irom England, that during the period while the Ge- 

 neva trials were in procuress, seventeen specimens of reapers were 

 on exhibition at a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at 

 Lewes ; upon which occasion an American Reaper is declared to 

 have demonstrated its superiority over other similar machines. 



It appears that British mechanics are adopting and combining 

 the excellencies of various American reapers, producing results 

 which are spoken of as producing a revolution in their harvest- 

 ing operations. 



This combination of American ingenuity obtained the silver 

 medal of the Royal Society at their recent meeting, and it is said 

 that more than one thousand of these machines have been made 

 to order. 



If then the farmers of the old world feel so much interest in 

 agricultural machines in use among American farmers, we are at 

 no loSvS to account for the excitement exhibited by New-York 

 farmers and others visiting the Geneva trials. 



T^velve grain Reaping Machines were entered for trial : three 

 of them did not reach Geneva until after the adjournment of the 

 judges. 



The following table presents a list of the reapers on the field, 

 in the order of numbers draw^n by them respectively, for their 

 stations on the ground. 



This table exhibits the action and main features «t coitetruc- 

 tiouof each machine on the wheat field. 



