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GENESEE FARMER. 



July. 



HUSSEY'S REAPING ftlACHINE. 



Hussey's Reaper, and other Implements. 



Op the various reaping machines now offei-ed 

 to the public, Hussey''s Reaper is considered 

 by many practical farmers decidedly superior to 

 any other. As it has been used extensively for 

 several years, in different and distant sections of 

 the country, a large number of grain growers 

 have given it a thorough trial. The machine is 

 highly commended by those who have had from 

 three to six year's experience in its use — suffi- 

 cient to afford abundant evidence of its value as 

 a durable labor-saving implement — as will be 

 seen by reference to certificates embraced in an 

 advertisement published elsewhere in this num- 

 ber of the Farmer. It is manufactured by Mr. 

 Thos. R. Hussey, of Auburn. N. Y. The 

 price of the machine varies according to size. 

 Those which cut a swath 5 feet wide are sold for 

 $110— five and a half feet, $11,5— six feet, $'120. 



The following is an extract from a Report on 

 Implements by the Agricultural Committee of 

 Newcastle county, Delaware, published in the 

 May number of the Farmer's Library and 

 Monthly Journal of Agriculture. The reader 

 will observe that the extract not only speaks fa- 

 vorably of Hussey's Reaper, but also commends 

 Pennock's Grain Drill and other implements 

 heretofore noticed in the pages of this journal : 



The Committee on Agricultural Implements regret that 

 formers and meclianics have been so remiss in not bringing 

 out valuable implements, known to have beea put in sun- 

 eessful operation, within a few years, in different parts of 

 this country and this State — among which are, 



1st. Hussey s Reaping- Ma/ hhie, upward of thirty of w hich 

 are owned in this County. Twenty of these were intro- 

 duced the last harvest, varying in price from $100 to $175 

 each. The work done by them has been eminently satis- 

 factory the past season. Mr. Bryan Jackson and Col. .1. 

 W. Andrews report that they cut — with ono of the largest 



size — 54 acres of heavy wheat in one day. Mr. Wm. Row- 

 man reports that he cut 14 acres in half a day. These are 

 extra days' work, and can only be accomplished with good 

 horses and at good speed. From 15 to 20 acres may be 

 deemed a fair day's work, 



2d. Hiisseijs Mowing- Mach'/ie, with cutters on the sam^ 

 principle as those of the Reaper, has been successfully tried 

 in this County, and if done at the same speed, will cut frora 

 10 to 15 acres per day. 



3d. Pennock's Drill. — 'J'his implement has been in use 5 

 or 6 years, with great success. \V. J. C. Clark, the Pres- 

 ident of the Newcastle County Agricultural Society, stated 

 before the Society that he sowed a part of his field with this 

 drill last year, at the rate of one and one-fourth bushels of 

 wheat to the acre, and that the yield of the drilled was more 

 than double that of the part of the same field upon which 

 two and a half bushels of wheat had been sown to the acre 

 broadcast. 



4th. Mr. J. Carr, of Bradywine Hundred, has recently 

 imporled a drill from England, at a cost of nearly three hun- 

 dred dollar.s. This machine has the management box, and 

 is constructed so :is to sow the concentrated manures, pou- 

 drette. guano, ashes, &c., at the same time of sowing tlw 

 wheat. 



The thanks of this Society and the farmers of the County 

 are due to Mr. Carr for his public spirit in sending to Eng- 

 land (his fatherland,) an order to purchase the best and 

 most improved implement of the kind in the kingdom, re- 

 gardless of cost, (in which he was most fortunate, as he got 

 the identical implement which took the first premium at the 

 Royal Agricultural Exhibition)— particularly when it is 

 known that he (Mr. Carr) has invited all farmers and machi- 

 nists to come forward and examine it, and to build and us* 

 fro-.Ti the same pattern free of charge. 



5th. Threshing- Machines. — We have in St. George's Hun- 

 dred four superior Threshing-Machincs or .Separators, 

 which get out and clean the wheat ready for market at the 

 one operation, 4(*0 bushels per day, if well attended. The 

 first two of these Separators were brought from Rochester, 

 New- York, last June, by H. F. Frknch & Co. The other 

 two were purchased, and are now owned, by J. &, Isaac 

 Woons, of St. George's. They have all been used with 

 much success. 



(jth. IL'mp-Brake. — A Hemp-brakeof simple construction 

 has been invented and patented by an ingenious fellow citi- 

 izen. Mr. Frank Hoixomb. h has been successfully 

 tried in the presence of a portion of this Committee, who 

 doubt not that the implement will eventually be nearly a« 

 valuable to the hemp-grower of the West as Whitney'* 

 cotton-gin was to the cotton-grower of the South. 



