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turn off from three hundred to five hundred machines in a 

 year, each one including an admirable thresher, separator, and 

 carrier. Most of our approved American machines, in fact, 

 now in use, separate the grain from the chaff and the straw 

 and carry the latter back to the stack. Many of them measure 

 and bag the Avheat, ready for market. Wherever our com- 

 plete machines have come into competition with those of Eng- 

 lish, French, or other European manufacture, they have in 

 variably proved themselves superior in point of simplicity, 

 rapidity, and perfection of work. 



Corn Shellees. On farms where a considerable amount 

 of corn is raised, a Corn Sheller is quite indispensable. It shells 

 with great rapidity, and on many a farm would pay for itself in 

 a single year. 



There are several patents, some of them adapted more espe- 

 cially to hand, others to both hand and horse power. Some of 

 them are adapted more especially to the small-sized ears usually 

 grown in the Eastern and Middle States, others to the large ears 

 of the Southern and Western States. {Fig. 60.) 



TRe Southern Corn Sheller is made expressly for the large 

 forms and plantations of the West and South, where the corn 

 is large. It is made both single and double, to shell one or two 

 ears at the same time. 



National Hay Cutter. The advantage of cutting food 

 for stock, though it has a1> various times been a subject of dis- 

 3ussion among practical men, is now very generally conceded. 

 Wherever a large stock of cattle, or a large number of horses 

 are kept, it is often good economy to feed out more or less of the 

 coarse substances of the farm, like straw, corn, clover, second- 

 quality hay, etc., mixing them either with the better qualities 

 of hay, or with some form of meal or concentrated food. 



The form in which food is given to cattle is by no means a 



