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carries the crop, when cut, over the main travelling wheel 

 into the binder where it is packed into a sheaf and auto- 

 matically bound with twine and ejected from the machine. 

 Four bullocks are required for this machine. A good self- 

 binder costs from forty to fifty pounds. 



The Mowing Machine has no platform, the cut clover 

 Falls in the rear of the cutter-bar. A board fixed diagon- 

 ally to the outermost end of the cutter-bar servos the 



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double purpose of clearing a track for the next journey, 

 and turning the cut clover into a swath. A mowing 

 machine costs from sixteen to twenty pounds. 



The Scythe is a most useful and simple hand implement 

 for cutting berseem. The snath (or frame) is made of 

 wood and has two handles. The cutting blade is about 

 one metre long and is fixed to the snath at an angle such 

 that the workman, when grasping the handles and bringing 

 them close to his body, should be just able to touch the 

 point of the blade with his outstretched left foot. The 



