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Reapers and Mowers. 



Every farmer who raises wheat, or any other kind of 

 cereal grain, needs a good reaper. And while he is 

 procuring one, he may as well purchase a combined 

 machine as to own a reaping machine and a mowing 

 machine in two separate machines. Besides this, it is 

 desirable to get a machine that can be relied on from 

 year to year ; a machine that has been brought to the 

 most satisfactory degree of perfectibility. Mechanics 

 will be trying to bring out machines on new principles. 

 The consequence is that a great many imperfect ma- 

 chines must be taken on the farms and experimented 

 with, until all the imperfect points in the machinery 

 have been found and corrected. For this reason, I con- 

 sider it important to suggest to farmers to purchase such 

 machines as can be used to mow grass, clover seed, flax, 

 and to harvest all kinds of grain ; and to choose such 

 machines as have had all their weak points corrected. 

 It takes a vast amount of brain labor and money to 

 make a really good and complete mower and reaper. 

 Either of the firms whose reapers are figured and de- 

 scribed in this book have expended a large fortune in 

 bringing their reapers and mowers to their present state 

 of perfectibility. 



The Kirby Mower and Reaper. 



This reaper is a combined machine, driven by only 

 one wheel. Some farmers are very partial to a one- 

 wheeled reaper and mower, while others can be satisfied 

 with nothing short of a two-wheeled machine. Who- 

 ever has a fancy for a one- wheeled machine, will find 



