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der. Over the cylinder, in the hopper, is a revolving shaft, with arms, to prevent clogging 

 and to stir up the seed and chaff. The cleaned seed is discharged in a large drawer under 

 neath the machine to be put into bags or barrels. The unthreshed seed -bolls fall at the back 

 end of the machine, and are to be put into the hopper to pass through the machine again. It 

 can be run with a two-horse railway, or three or four horses to a sweep-power, and is said to 

 clean from ten to twenty bushels of clover-seed per day. 



The second represents a compact and simple machine which can be used with one horse. 

 A fan-mill will be required with this machine, as it does not separate the seed from the chaff. 



VICTOR CLOVER MACHINE. 



The Victor Clover Machine, manufactured by the Hagerstown Agricultural Implement 

 Manufacturing Company, of Hagerstown, Maryland, has an under-shot six-beater open cylinder, 

 which has important advantages over the closed or drum cylinder, and over the over-shot cyl 

 inder. This cylinder, being open, the dust is taken through into the separator, where it is 

 confined and carried out at the rear end of the machinery. 



The seed is rubbed out by the diminishing of the space between the front edges of the 

 rubbers and the corner of their backs as they, pass each other with their fluted sides by the 

 revolution of the cylinder. The process is one, as is readily seen, that will rub out the seed 

 very effectually. It is said by those who have used them to thresh very rapidly, and to do 

 the work very satisfactorily, and can be run with either horse or steam power. 



Clover as a Fertilizer. Clover is not only extremely valuable as a forage plant, but 

 also as a fertilizer of any soil on which it grows. It is often stated that the introduction of 

 clover into England produced an entire revolution in her agriculture; we know its import 

 ance to the agricultural interests of our own country are beyond estimation, and we wonder 

 how our ancestors could have gotten on in farming without it. 



