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JVew York State Agricultural Works, 



ALBANY, N. Y., 

 BY WHEELER, MELICK & CO. 

 THE subscribers offer this season a new and most valuable 

 inaoliine in the successful combination of a Wituimcer with 

 thair Overshot Thresher. It is easily driven by one Double 

 Horse Power, and has now been fairly tested, a large num- 

 ber having been in constant use during the past threshing 

 season. 



We have numerous letters from gentlemen who have used 

 the Winnower, and gave extract-s from a few of them in our 

 advertisements of last month, and we now insert a few more. 

 We miglit add a large number, but it is deemed unnecessary. 



{From R. Olney, of Portage, N. K] 

 Messrs. Wheeler, Meliok, & Co. — I will now state some 

 facts in regard to your Thresher and Winnower. We first 

 used it to thresh oats, which were good and not very long 

 straw. With Ave hands we threshed and cleaned fit for any 

 market, 6) bushels per hour while running. This is not 

 guess work, as is frequently the case, but we kept the time 

 to the minutes, and much larger figures might have been 

 made had we exerted ourselves. "Our wheat was heary 

 growth and. very long straw. We averaged 20 to 25 bush- 

 els an hour, using a pair of mules and a span of very light 

 horses alternately; but with either team alone, and five 

 hands, I can thresh 400 bushels good oats a day, and half 

 that quantity of wheat, and make it no harder for team or 

 hands than ordinary farm work. The machine is admira- 

 bly adapted to the farmer's use ; can be worked at so little 

 expense and in bad weather when little else can be done. 

 It is of the most simple and durable construction, there 

 being nothing liable to break or soon wear out but that a 

 common farmer can repair. It cleans the grain well and 

 wastes less than any other I ever examined. I write thus 

 minutely that you may understand the facts as they are; 

 the figures I have given being taken from our ordinary 

 threshing without any effort to hurry business. 



[From. S. n. Olney, of Granger, N. T] 

 Messrs. WnEELER, Melick, & Co. — I have used your 

 Patent Horse Power and Winnower while it threshed about 

 8000 bushels of grain, and am happy to say it has given the 

 best satisfaction. With a light pair of horses and five hands 

 we have tlireshed from 50 to (jO bushels of oats per hour, 

 and about half as much wheat. My ordinary day's work of 

 oats is from 250 to 300 bushels and 125 to 150 of" wheat. I 

 can confidently recommend this machine to farmers as supe- 

 rior to any I have used, although I have used various kinds 

 for about 15 years. 



[From Clieiter Olwy, Dated March 1, 1852.] 



Messrs. Wheeler, Meltok, & Co.— Last fall I employed 



Mr. Olney with one of your Powers >t Winnowers to do my 



tlireshing, and I most cheerfully state that the work was 



done better, with a less number of hands and less waste than 



ever before with other machines. It threshed from 20 to 

 30 bushels of wheat per hour, and twice as much of oats. 



[From y. Olney, Esq., of Portage, N. F.] 

 Messrs. Wheeler, Melick, & Co. — Tou ask my opinion 

 in regard to your Thresher & Winnower, but as two of my 

 sons and one of my neighbors have given you some details, 

 I will merely say that in my opinion your machine will do 

 better work than any other I ever used, although I have 

 used many different kinds for the last 20 years. 



[From a second letisr of E. French, Ecq., of Bridgeport, 

 m Y., dated March 9, 1S52.] 

 Messrs. Wheeler, Melick, & Co. — I am not able to do 

 Tour Winnower the justic« it deserves. I have used it since 

 August, and it has earned $500 without asking for work, 

 while other machines have been begging for it. 1 have had 

 a man running it who has an eight-horse machine of his 

 own, and good of its kind ; but he could not get work with 

 it I have taken pains to exhibit the operation of your ma- 

 chine, and have seen none but pronounce it the most perfect 

 in use. It has threshed 25 bu.shels per hour, and is capable 

 of thresjiing 200 bushels per day, of good Mheat. My wheat 

 was of the Soid.e's variety. I sold it from the machine for 

 seed, without other cleaning. Oats it will clean better than 

 any Fanning Mill I ever used. 



[From K T. Tiffany, ofDimock, Pa.] 

 Messrs. Wheeler, Melick, & Co. — I consider your com- 

 bined Thresher and Winnower one of the best machines 

 ever introduced into Northern Pennsylvania. I hav^ised 

 one of them through December and a part of January, and 

 did more business than any other four muchinos in this 

 place. With a good team I can thresh 4ii(i bushels of oats 

 per day, and I think with an\^xchange I could thresh 5ii0 

 or 600, and with less waste and expense than any other 

 machine in existence. Could I get experienced workmen, 

 I would order one or two more. It wcjuld be the best in- 

 vestment I could make. I can make better profit with one 

 of your machines than can be obtained from any two farms 

 in Susquehannah county. Your Thresher and Winnower 

 receives the highest approbation of our farmers. 



[From Samuel Tucker, of North Evans, JV. 3'] 

 Messrs. Wheeler, Melick, & Co.— In reply to your re- 

 quest about the Thresher and Winnower, I am ready to 

 answer tliat it works well. Indeed, its equal was never 

 seen in Erie Co. I have threshed 18,794 bushels of wheat, 

 oats, and barley, besides 50 bushels of grass .seed. A num- 

 ber of my neighbors want machines like mine. 



!^~ Price of Double Power Thresher & Winnower, $225 



'he superiority of WHEELER'S PATENT RAILWAY 

 AIN Ilolv'SE POWER, and OVERSHOT TIIUKSII- 



Th 

 CH 



ER and Si;PAR.VTOP. is universally acknowledged 

 Thous.ands of them are in use, many of which have threshed 

 from 50,000 to 100,000 bushels of grain, and arc still in good 



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