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Ketchum's Oiie-Horse Slowing Slachiue. 



The machine is so constructed as to combine great strength and 

 durability with the smallest possible weight ; the cutters are so 

 formed as to prevent entirely the liability to clog, so troublesome 

 in some machines ; it may be stopped and started in wet or lodged 

 grass, without backing ; the seat is conveniently placed, so that 

 the operator can ride with perfect ease to himself and the horse ; it 

 has a wheel and lever attached, by which the operator can instantly 

 raise the cutter-bar six or eight inches, to pass over a stone or other 

 obstruction, and while raised, the machine may be drawn to and 

 from the field, &c. The cutter-bar being always on a line with the 

 axis of the driving wheel, this machine operates well on rough or 

 uneven ground, where other machines cannot mow. A very im- 

 portant improvement in this machine is, that it can be instantly 



