* LIST OF ILL USTRA TIONS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



FIGURE 



85. The horses "push" the header upon the ripened grain. 



86. A corn binder. 



87. A husking shredder in operation. 



88. The back-breaking sickle. 



89. The scythe. 



go. "Cradling" grain. 



91. The McCormick reaper of 1831. 



5,2. The McCormick reaper of 1845. 



93. Modern machinery in an American wheat-field. 



94. He also uses American machinery still, there's a difference. 



95. Modern plows. 



96. A gasoline engine for the farm, "The Lanson." 



97. With cut-off saw attachment. "The Lanson" on runners. 



98. A steam driven separator. 



99. A country creamery. 



100. A silo filler, showing the power of the blower. 



101. A silage cutter. 



102. Land pulverizer its adjustableness to uneven ground. 



103. The Aspinwall potato planter. 



104. The Aspinwall potato digger. 



CHAPTER X. 



105. Studying the atmosphere. 



106. Instruments used by the meteorologists. 



