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lion was strenuously opposed by the laboring classes there, as 

 an attempt to infringe upon their rights. Separators and 

 winnowers were attached to the thresher at a much more recent 

 date, but they have been found so important, that now few 

 machines are made without one or the other. Straw carriers 

 followed soon after, by means of which the straw is stacked 

 away. A bagging apparatus is now* often added, so that the 

 grain is threshed, winnowed, measured, and bagged, ready for 

 market, at one operation, and the straw taken care of with very 

 little labor. Most of the labor is done by the team, while the 

 rapidity of work is quite wonderful. 



At the trial of Threshing Machines, at the Paris exhibition, 

 in 1855, the victory was won by an American machine, and 

 during the operation, to ascertain the comparative rapidity and 

 economy of threshing, six men were engaged in threshing with 

 flails, who, in one hour, threshed sixty litres of wheat. In the 

 eame time 



Pitt's American machine threshed 740 litres 



Clayton's Enulish " " 410 " 



Duvoir-8 French " " 250 " • 



rinet's " " " 150 " 



A French journal, speaking of this trial, said: "This 

 American machine literally devoured the sheaves of wheat. 

 The eye cannot follow the work which is eflfected between the 

 entrance of the sheaves, and the end of the operation. It is otk' 

 of the greatest results which it is possible to obtain. The im- 

 pression which the spectacle produced on the Arab chiefs, was 

 profound." And yet, since that exhibition, still farther im- 

 provements have been effected in this country. {Fig. 59.) 



Pitt's machine itself has been somewhat improved, and as 

 now manufactured by J. T. Case & Co., of Racine, Wisconsin, 

 is one of the very best machines in the world. These makers 



