No. 6. 



Straw Cutters. 



181 



STRAW CUTTERS. 



The above cut is a representation of " Wil- 

 iis' Improved Vertical Hay and Straw Cut- 

 ter.^' This machine is well constructed on 

 mechanical principles; the knives are so 

 placed as to operate with a drawing stroke — 

 cuts free and easy — is fed and worked by one 

 man, and will readily cut thirty bushels per 

 hour. 



The cut below represents the " The Guil- 



lotine Straw Cutter," invented by the same 

 individual ; a very effective, cheap (price $15) 

 and durable machine. Either of these ma- 

 chines are well calculated for cutting the 

 usual variety of fodder found on the farm. 

 They have advantages over some in use, by 

 their adaptation to cutting corn fodder, a 

 very desirable property, to the purcliaser of 

 an article for general use. The advantage 



of cutting the long food for cattle and horses, 

 is no longer a " problem to be solved." The 

 question "is settled by the repeated experi- 

 ments before the public. As an illustration 

 of the great loss sustained by those who alto- 

 gether neglect the use of the straw cutter on 

 their farms, we give the statement below 

 from Si calculating vinn, Mr. Benjamin Hale, 

 proprietor of a line of stages running between 



Newburyport and Boston. It is a correct 

 statement of savings made by the use of 

 straw cutters' in preparing the food for his 

 horses. He says : — 



" The whole ninoiint of hay pur- 

 cliasfid from April 1, to Oct. 1, 

 ]8)tj, (six months,) and used at the Tons. ctct. qrs. lbs. 

 stage stable, was 32 4 d 10 



At $25 per ton, (the lowest price at 

 w hich hay wa,'? purchased in 1816,) 



$800 00 



