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per hour, the latter easily worked by hand, aud cutting or 

 chaffing from three hundred to one thousand pounds per hour. 

 This Cutter unites the important elements of strength, ease of 

 working, and safety, the knives being covered to protect the 

 operator from accident. I know of no better machine in the 

 market. {Fig. 61.) 



Excelsior Eoot Cutter. No farmer who keeps a flock of 

 sheep or a stock of cattle, should neglect to cultivate a wide 

 breadth of root crops ; and to feed them out judiciously requires 

 the use of a good vegetable cutter. Neat cattle and sheep, 

 when attempting to eat turnips, mangolds, carrots, potatoes, or 

 pumpkins, in pieces so large that they cannot readily take them 

 between the teeth, are extremely liable to get choked. Many 

 a valuable animal, whose life might have been saved, has been 

 sacrificed by a neglect to cat the roots. {Fig. 62.) 



The Excelsior Cutter is the best adapted to this work of any 

 that I have any knowledge of. At the New York State Fair 

 at Buffalo, it cut a bushel of potatoes fine enough for sheep in 

 twenty-six seconds. It cuts pumpkins, turnips, and other roots, 

 into strips of a size best suited to sheep and cows, and it does it 

 with such remarkable ease and uniformity that a small boy or 

 girl can cut a bushel of roots in a minute. The cylinder is 

 hollow, made of hard iron, and the little gouge-shaped cutters 

 are fastened to the surface, and slice off the pieces of the size 

 of a man's thumb, or larger, the cutters being easily adjusted to 

 cut the size desired. This simple and effective root-cutter is 

 manufactured by J. E. Robertson, of Syracuse, New York. It 

 has taken the first premiums at the Pennsylvania, the New 

 Jersey, the New York, and other State Fairs, and, so far as 

 •cnown, it has given universal satisfaction in practical use on 

 the farm. 



Cider ^Iills. Many a small farm has a supply of apples 



