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The Curtis Manufacturing Company, Albion, N. Y., exhibit their New Home 

 Mower. Front cut, with floating draw-bar, which passes in and out of holes with- 

 out cramping the knife, and with same ease as rear-cut mower ; free from pushing, 

 bars extending from main frame to wheel of machine tending to lift the trunk from 

 the ground in hard cutting. 



The Toledo Platform Twine Binder Manufacturing Company, Toledo, Ohio, exhibit a 

 Toledo Mower. A foot lever raises the cutter-bar while turning the machine at 

 will of the driver. No weight on horses' necks ; every box a babbit ; carried on 

 4wo forty-inch wheels ; flexible bar ; compensating and adjustable pitman. 



The McCormick Manufacturing Company, Chicago, III., exhibit one of their McCor- 

 mick No. 2 Mowers. The knife receives power from both wheels, and cuts squarely 

 on any turn ; high wheels and broad frame ; pitman connects with knife-head 

 without bolts ; center draft ; doubletree so attached as to remove all neck weight ; 

 floating cutter-bar ; guards are pointed up while in motion, and lowers or raises 

 the cutter-bar ; pitman protected by screen. 



The Piano Manufacturing Company, of Piano, Illinois, exhibit their Neiv Piano 

 Mower. This machine has some strong points of special merit. It adjusts itself 

 readily to uneven ground. The cutter bar is easily folded up, and carries on 

 mower axle. It is light draft. 



CX.OVER HULLERS. 



The Newark Machine Company, Newark, Ohio, exhibits, a Victor Double Huller 

 ■Clover Machine, A double huller, both cylinders are hulling cylinders. Teeth cor- 

 rugated or roughened in both cylinders and concaves. The separation peculiar 

 alone to the Victor consists of toothed zentel bars secured by crank shafts at each 

 end, performing at one and same operation the carrying out of straw, and separa- 

 tion of bolls and seed, and carrying unhulled balls back to the second or hulling 

 ■cylinder. From the second cylinder the chaft" and seed is thrown out direct into 

 the sieves where the seed is partially cleaned, and then deposited in a seed elevator 

 •on the outside of the machine, and by it carried to the recleaner where it is fitted 

 for market. By the peculiarity of its cylinders and concave this machine — it is 

 •claimed — will hull clover when damp or frozen. 



The Birdsell Manufacturing Company, South Bend, Indiana, exhibit their Monitor 

 Jtvnior Clover Huller. This machine has an iron bar threshing cylinder, with 

 •adjustable concaves. The clover passes from the cylinder bolt where the bolls are 

 separated from the straw. The bolls pass down to the lower floor which conveys 

 them to the hulling cylinder, which is constructed with steel rasp. The concaves 

 are made of steel rasps, and are adjustable so that they can be set to or from the 

 huller cylinder. After hulling, the seed is conveyed to the main shoe where it is 

 partially cleaned, from there it is conveyed to the recleaning attachment where it 

 is cleaned for market. The tailings are conveyed and thrown upon the lower shake 

 at the rear end of the machine, which conveys them back to the hulling cylinder, 

 thereby throwing the dust to the rear end of the machine. 

 1 2 — Agriculture. 



