1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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GALE'S STEAW CUTTSH. 



The improvements in agricultural implements 

 — although very great within the last ten or fif- 

 teen years — will not exclude still further changes. 

 The inventive genius of our people will not be 

 idle, so long as the agricultural interest demands 

 more help from the inventor and the mechanic. 

 There are implements still wanted, which would 

 not only save a vast amount of human toil, but pay 

 thousands of timing over, in the saving of seeds, 

 or in the aggregate of crops. 



Among the recent improvements on a valuable 

 machine, which has been many years in use. is 

 one represented in the cut at the head of this ar- 

 ticle. In order to test its capabilities, we have 

 used it with all sorts of fodder usually found in 

 the 1)arn of the farmer, — hay, straw, corn stalks 

 and the butts and husks, — and with them all it 

 performs the desired work with great rapidity 

 and case to the person using it. Combined with 

 these good qualities, it is so simple in its arrange- 

 ment and construction that the farmer himscll 

 will be able in most cases to repair any injury 

 either by accident or the natural wear by use. 



The machine is for sale at diflerent prices, ac- 

 cording to size, at the agricultural warehouse of 

 NorRSE&Cc, 9 & 13 Commercial Street, Bos- 

 ton. 



We again urge upon our friends, those who 

 have but a single horse or cow to winter, the 

 economy of cutting the fodder which they are 

 to consume. Ilay is worth $22 to $24 per ton 

 in the cities, and from $16 to $20 in the country 

 towns, and the crop may be made vastly more 

 serviceable by being cut. 



The engraving, and the fullowiiig description, 

 will give the reader a pretty good idea of the 

 construction of the machine. 



On the 12tli day of Septe;nl)cr last, a patent 

 was granted to Mr. Warren Gale, late of Troy, 

 New York, for the improvement in straw cutters 

 represented in the annexed engraving. The 

 nature of the invention relates to the knife (or 

 knives) of the cutting cylinder, so that it shall 

 cut against a flange (or flanges) on the opposite 

 cylinder. The frame of themacliine is like that of 

 common straw cutters ; the shaft of tlio cutting 

 cylinder is driven by a crank handle, and has a 



