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The Ouiser Mannfai-tijiiiKj Co., of Waynesboro, Pa., exhibit one of their separators, 

 ■'The Guiser." This machine has been on the market for a quarter of a century, 

 but from time to time many valuable improvements have been added, nearly all 

 of which are patented and belong exclusively to this company. The "Guiser" 

 separator is put together without mortices or tenons, being lapped and fastened 

 with bolts. When in motion it remains steady without brace or blocks. The chief 

 points made on this machine are that it is strong and adapted to all kinds of 

 threshing. 



Gacir, Scull <l <Jii , iliclimond, Ind., exhibit one of their New Peerless threshers. 

 This is a handsomely ]»ropoi'tioned and well constructed machine, with some new 

 features in separating and cleaning. A reserve beater behind the cylinder lifts the 

 straw upward instead of downward after it has passed the cylinder, leaving the 

 grain an unobstructed passage to the conveyor and riddles without once becoming 

 intermingled with the straw at all. Two distinct separations, and using a new 

 combined end-shake chaff riddle, outside shake shoe and cleaning riddle. The 

 velocity of the straw is checked by the straw lifter, drawn upward and then thrown 

 downward and spread evenly upon the first separating rack, from whence it is 

 carried upward again in a thin sheet to the second separating rack— all the time 

 having a vigorous vibrating motion. It \\^s a secondary separation above the rid- 

 dles by which all the trash and short straws are carried overboard, reducing the 

 labor for the fan, riddles and elevator very greatly. All parts of the Peerless are 

 driven by four belts. It has a clover-huller attachment, and threshes timothy, 

 orchard gra,ss, etc. It is claimed for this machine that it is wider in proportion to 

 length of cylinder than any other machine made. The machine is strongly put 

 together, well braced, and bespeaks great durability. 



Riisaell ct Co., J/a.s.si'/on, O., exhibit one of their New Massilou threshers. This 

 is an old machince which its manufacturers have not allowed to fossilize or fall 

 out of the line of progress, but have each year ad,ded some new and valuable im- 

 provements. It has an ingenious device for separating grain from the straw. As 

 soon as the straw and grain pass the cylinder they meet a sudden check at the first 

 beater. This stops the mass for an instant, then pounds and beats the straw until 

 it is placed on the notched strips of the table, and moves on, first surrendering the 

 greater portion of the grain it has protected. The second beater, running at a 

 little less speed than the first, in its turn jiounds and whips the straw, compelling 

 it to yield another quota of grain, while the " kickers," an original device of this 

 company, "kicks up" such a commotion as to separate all grain from the straw 

 that perchance may have escaped separation. The cleaning riddles are made of 

 wire. This machine is simple and neat, very free from what may be styled 

 '' trappy devices.'' 



./. /. Case, Racine, Mich., exhibits one of their Agitator threshers. It is claimed 

 ior the Agitator, in a general way, that it is a good and reliable thresher, and, .so 

 far as the committee was enabled to determine, its claims are well founded. No 

 especial points of merit are advanced by the manufacturer. 



