no now TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



brought to the test upon the field. Striking improvements had 

 been made since the Geneva trial. The draught had been very 

 materially lessened in most of the machines, though the side 

 draught in some of them was still objectionably large. In the 

 ability to cut fine and thick grass without clogging, there was 

 manifest progress in most of the machines, and the two that 

 stood first at Geneva had gained something in this point, but 

 of the ilineteen that competed as mowers, only three could 

 start in fine grass without backing to get up speed. The Buck- 

 eye, patented in 1856, won its first great triumph here, and re- 

 ceived the first premium. 



New inventions and improvements now multiplied in quick 

 succession, every year adding to the list. In 1859, the cele- 

 brated Wood mower was invented, and very soon took a high 

 rank. In 1804, there were no less than one hundred and 

 eighty-seven establishments in the country devoted to the 

 manufacture of reapers and mowers, many of them of vast 

 extent, substantially built, completely furnished with abundant 

 power, machinery, and tools of the finest description, while tlie 

 work had become wisely and beautifully systematized. The 

 population directly sustained by these manufactories exceeded 

 sixty thousand. The value of the annual product exceeded 

 fifteen millions of dollars, and the number of machines made 

 amounted to about one hundred thousand. 



After the lapse of nine years from the Syracuse trial, it was 

 thought desirable to hold another, which should be national in 

 its character, machines from all parts of the United States being 

 allowed to compete; and this was accordingly arranged under 

 the direction of the New York State Society, at Auburn, in 

 that state, in July, 1866. 



For this trial the number of mowers which entered, single 

 and combined, was forty-four, the number of reapers, thirty, in 



