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requiring tlie parts to be fitted anew. The driving wheels are 

 thirty inches in diameter and run loosely on the axle. The 

 draught is direct and easy, and it is capable of working in 

 hollows and over ridges with a remarkable power of adaptation. 

 The cutting is easy and uniform, the cutter bar entirely inde- 

 pendent of the frame, and having nothing but its own weight 

 to sustain, under any circumstances. The Buckeye deserves its 

 high reputation. 



Wood Prize Mower. This machine, long a favorite in this 

 country, has attracted a more than ordinary share of attention 

 and interest by its triumphs at the great Paris Exposition of 

 1867, where, in competition with some of the best mowers in 

 the world, it won two grand gold medals, and secured for its 

 inventor, Walter A. Wood, Esq., the honorable distinction of a 

 decoration of the Imperial Cross of the Legion of Honor. This 

 gives it a national reputation, in which every American feels a 

 just and national pride, for it has probably done more to estab- 

 lish and vindicate the high character of American agricultural 

 mechanics abroad than any other machine, having taken the 

 highest prizes offered in this or any other country, both for 

 practical work on the field and perfection of mechanical con- 

 struction. {Fig. 54.) 



This is a jointed bar mower, running upon two driving 

 wheels, each furnished with internal gear, so as to make each 

 an independent driving wheel. These wheels are so placed as 

 to run in the tracks made by the track clearer to avoid unne- 

 cessary injury to the crop. The spring seat is so placed as 

 to balance the tongue, so as to leave no pressure on the necks 

 of the team. 



The frame is of wood, made of four timbers lying in the same:^ 

 plane, the middle line over the axle. The tongue is attached i 

 to the axle by a joint. The forward part of the shoe is attached \ 



