PALMER AND WILLAMS' SELF -RAKING REAPER. 



THIS machine was patented July 1st, ,1851, and has been 

 thoroughly tested the two past years. It is very simple in 

 construction, having only one entire cog wheel and one 

 pinion in the whole machine. The driving wheel is about 

 four feet, and the ground wheel thirty inches in diameter, 

 and are so arranged as entirely to obviate the side draft, 

 and hence a single team can manage it with speed and 

 ease. The knife or sickle is scolloped, and cannot be clog- 

 ged in any kind of grain. The grain is raked off so as to 

 be out of the way of the team in repassing, and is in good 

 shape for binding. The size of the sheaf is perfectly under 

 the control of the driver. By a simple movement of his 

 foot, he can throw the rake in and out of gear. If, however, 

 he pays no attention to it, then the raking off will be done 

 at regular intervals. In backing, the entire machine is 

 thrown out of gear, and ceases to operate. We are the 

 exclusive manufacturers of this Reaper for the harvest of 

 1853, and have been extensively engaged for several years 

 in the manufacture of agricultural implements, and have 

 examined the working of several Iteapers, and received 

 proposals for building others, but consider this far superior 

 to them all. Such is our confidence in its superiority that 

 we now have 07M hundred of them in course of manufac- 

 ture, and shall be ready to deliver them on orders by the 

 1st of June next. We warrant the Reaper well made of 

 good materials, durable with i)roper care, and capable of 

 cutting better than by ordinary cradling, from 15 to 20 acres 

 of standing grain per day, laying it in gavels for binding. 

 Appended are a few certificates of its operations : 



Janhsvillb, Wisconsin, Jan. 13, IS.iS. 

 Messks. Palmer & Williams, Gents : — Atl«r receiving 

 your Reaper I Iai(f mine aside, and finished my harvest 

 with yours, (4U acres.) It is a perfect self-raker, it cuts the 

 grain perfectly in all conditions, and rakes it off out of the 

 way of the team in repassing. It runs lighter than any 

 reaper I have ever used, two horses managing it with ease. 

 Farmers can now rely upon a Self-Raking Reaper, that will 

 work to their satisfaction. jS. P. CULVER. 



Bat A VI A, Oct. 6, 1852. 

 Mr. Palmee, Sir :— I have cut 70 acres of wheat with 

 the Reaper I purchased of you. Much of it was heavy and 

 lodged. It cut it in the neatest manner and raked it off 

 tetter than it could have been done by hand, leaving the 

 grain ready to bind. I only used one span of horses and 

 cut nine acres and a half in 3 hours and 55 minutes. I cut 

 nineteen and a half asres per day. I believe I can tut 

 with one good team, 25 acres per day. I have used other 

 kinds of Reapers, but consider yours vastly superior to all 

 others ; in a word, it is easy for a team, does the work well, 

 and is a very great saving of labor and grain. 



Yours, &c., C. R. BRINKEPJIOOF. 



Batavia, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1852. 

 MESI3K3. Williams & Palmer, Gents.: — We, the under- 

 signed, saw the Reaper (known as " Williams & Palmer's 

 Self-Kaking Reaper,"') in fidl work in C. R. Brinkerhoof 's 

 wheat field, in the last hsirvest, in tliis town and we are gl d 

 of the op oru nity to express our entire approba'ion in h • 

 work done, both in cutting the grain and raking it off the 

 machine. We were surprised with its sunplicity, and could 



not but admire the ease with which the raking part la con- 

 trolled. H. U. SOPHER, II. H. CORBIN, 

 JOSEPH GATES, M. U. SOPIIER, 

 JOHN DORMAN, E. HOWELL, 

 H. BOSTWICK, Rev. A. STEEL, 

 CHESTER SCOTT, E. FERRON. 



Sweden, Jan. 1, 1853. 

 Messes. J. Gansok & Co.:— I have examined the Self- 

 Raking Reaping Machine now being built by you. I have 

 had a good deal of experience in harvesting grain with a 

 Reaper, usually cutting my own grain, from lot) to 15:) 

 acres per year, and am free to say that I consider Palm.er 

 ifc Williams' Self-Kaking Machine the best Reaper I have 

 ever seen. F. P. ROOT. 



Brockport, Jan. 1, 1853. 

 Messrs. J. Ganson & Co., Sirs :— I cut with the Self- 

 Raking Machine I had of Palmer & Williams, in the last 

 harvest, about 80 acres of wheat ; some of it was badly 

 lodged. I have tried several reapers, but consider yours 

 vastly superior to any I have ever used. The raking off 

 was well done. It drops the grain in good shape" for bind- 

 ing, without leaving a trail. The cutting is done without 

 clogging and the draft I think full one-third easier for a 

 team than the ordinary reaper. ISAAC PALMER. 



Springfield, Ohio, July 2, 1852. 

 Mr.. Palmer : — This certifies that we were the binders of 

 the grain on the final trial of Reapers, by the Ohio State 

 Agricultural Society, and that it is our opmion that Palmer 

 & Williams' Self-Raking Reaper left the grain in the best 

 manner for binding of any Reaper on the ground, and that 

 it done all Its work equal to any of them. 



SAMUEL PATTEN, JOHN MANGAN, 

 WM. A. REID, JOHN FARREL, 



TIMOTHY MANGAN, MICHAEL HARD, 

 WM. FOSTER, Owner of the Land. 



AGENTS— J. Rapalje & Co., Rochester; W. K. Marvin, 

 Lockport; C. E. Brinckerhoof, Batavia; N. U. Tracy, 

 Penn Yan. 



PrtncU Zinc Paint. 



THIS new and beautiful article of Paint is now offered to 

 the trade and public, ground in prepared linseed oil, for the 

 first time in this country. It has been used successfully in 

 France for the last five years, where it has superseded white 

 Lead as a paint. 



The French Zinc when properly prepared and used, 

 makes the most brilliant antl durable white in use, and is 

 entirely free from all poisonous qualities. 



The French Zinc is not more exi)ensive than white lead, 

 and is prepared in such a manner that it requires no far- 

 ther preparation for use, than to thin it with Turpentine or 

 raw Oil to the consistency of white lead paint. 



The French Zinc is very much whiter, and has a better 

 body, than the New Jersey Zinc. 



The French Zine is offered dry, and prepared as above, 

 in quantities to suit purcha-sers, at the Manufacturer's De- 

 pot, No. IT Buffalo St., Eochester, N. Y. 



July, 1852, M. F. REYNOLDS. 



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