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ofher machines, — inequalities in tlie wurface, even slight ones, caused 

 it to bound in such a manner as to throw up the extreme end of tha 

 finger bar several inches above its true cutting level, leaving ilia 

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Allen's machine required less power of draft than the Ketchum 

 machine. Its weight with pole and whiffletrees is about 600 pounds. 

 No machine that we have seen is so readily thrown in and out of gear 

 as is this. It has a wooden instead of an iron finger bar. In our 

 opinion an iron finger bar is preferable. The weather cannot affect it 

 as of necessity it must a wooden one, and the grass which falls upon 

 it leaves it a little more readily. Outside of the driving wheel is a 



