

NEW YOBK STATE AGEICTTLTTJRAL WORKS, 



^1' WHEELER, ME LICK & CO., ALBANY.. iV. 1'. 

 IN prcsentiii!; our annual business card to the Farming 

 Public, we take tlie occasion to express our thanks to for- 

 mer customers for an increased patronage, which has made 

 a further extension •f our mauufacturmg facilities neces- 

 sary. 



We are making, for the trade of 1S53, a much larger num- 

 ber of all articles in our line than we have in any previous 

 year, and have made several improvements, which will raise 

 them stUl higher in the public estimation. 



As ihe liuiits of an advertisement will not admit of an 

 explanation of all the advantages of our Machines, and as 

 most of them are so well known as to need no commenda- 

 tion, we will make this statement brief, and for more de- 

 tailed information we refer to our printed Catalogue, which 

 will be sent by mail, postage free, when requested. 



As we give our entire attention to the improving and 

 manufacturing of Horse Powers, Threshing Machines, and 

 a few other articles, we feel warranted iji assuring the pub- 

 lic that they will find each of the following Machines un- 

 surpassed. 



WHEELER'S PATENT RATL WAT CHAIN HORSE 

 POWERS. 

 These Powers (represented in the above cut,) are unri- 

 valled for driving all kinds of Farmers', Planters' and 

 other Machinery, which admits of being driven by Horse 

 Power. They are made for either one or two horses, and 

 their superior merits, in point oi durability, strength and 

 ease of rnnning, are fuUy established ; while their compact- 

 ness and simplicity, lightness, and greater length and width 

 of Treading Floor and Stall, give them advantages over 

 other Powers, which are highly appreciated by those who 

 have tried them. Several ''thousands of them are in use, 

 some of which (made 12 years ago,) have threshed over 

 100,000 bushels, and though our present Powers are much 

 improved over the old ones of the same kind, yet the latter 

 are still good. About 950 of thetn were sold by us and our 

 agents, the pa.st season, (a larger number than in any pre- 

 vious year,) thus pro\ing their increasing popularity. 



WEELER'S PATENT COMBINED THRESHER AND 

 WINN'NOWER. 

 This Machine (also rciircs. ■nl<d in the out,) is a new in- 

 vention. It was got out two yciirs ago, after a long series 

 of experimentH rcsiilling in a macliine wliich perfuniis the 

 thre« opertitiou.s cf Thr<:'<hiini. Si jiiir<ititig and Winnow. 

 ing, wilh as imiih ilispatch, and as few liands and h'irscs 

 as are required t.i lliresli and Mpuriitc 'iily, willi other inn- 

 chineR, and although designed for so loiu'plicalcd work, it 

 is a modi^l of simplicity aiid compactness. The entire run- 

 ning parts are driven" liy the main bells, and one small 

 band. We have no dcnibt it is the mo-st perfect maehine in 

 use for Tlireshing and Winnowing. Driven by two hor.ies, 

 they thresh and cK^an from 150 to 200 bu.shels of wheat, or 

 twice that quantity of oats per day. We give below letters 



from gentlemen, who have the machines in use, showing 

 the estimation in which they are held, premising that these 

 two are about an average of over lOU similar letters, which 

 we can show. 



Letter from E. S^i^arthmit, Esq., dated Exeter, Liieerne 

 county, Pa., March lid, 1353. 

 Messrs. WnEiaisii, Melick & Co. — Gentlemen : I am 

 happy to say your Thresher and Winnower far exceeds my 

 expectation's — it cannot be beat in this section. 1 have 

 threshed 43 bushels of wheat in 60 minutes by the watch. 

 It was good clean wheat and short straw, and was taken 

 to market from the maehine as fast as threshed ; and so it 

 has been with most of the wheat I have threshed. All that 

 is free from chess and cockle I can make fit for market as 

 it comes from the machine. I have threshed 9li bushels of 

 oats in an hour. I think, on tlie average, of Wheat, 25 to 

 30, and Oats. 60 to 70 bushels per hour. I have threshed 

 between 5u00 and 6000 bushels in all since I got the ma- 

 chine, which was not till the middle of December, and so 

 late I feared the 4 horse powers and S horse cleaners had 

 got all the work done, but I soon had plenty. The work- 

 manship of the machine is the best I over saw. 



Yours, &c., £. SwAKxnouT. 



Letter from W. C. Nortkrup, Esq., MomUiis, Onondaga 

 coxwii/ii, N. Y. 



Respected Gei^ts : Having tried your Winnower to onr 

 satisfaction, we are glad to say we like it much. We first 

 tried it on Soules wheat,, and it worked to a charm ; cleaned 

 it as well as any Fanning Mill the first time, and threshing 

 from 20 to 25 busliels jier hour. We then set up at anotlier 

 barn for oats, and threshed from 50 to CO bushels per hour. 

 Oats were gooil. It works to a charm in barley ; threshes 

 as fast as we can put it through the Machine, but have not 

 tried '\Kper hour. It works well in buckwheat, when dry, 

 and in timothy. Your Machine is much liked in this place, 

 both for threshing and sariiig grain, it takes the prefer- 

 ence of the Eiglit Horse Machines. 



Yours, very respectfully, W. C. NoRTiutup. 



WHeAeR'S OVERSHOT THRESHER AND SEPA- 

 RATOR. 

 This Machine is also our own invention, and has been in 

 use 13 or 14 years, and its many advantages are apprecia- 

 ted by other Man ufiu-tnrern, as well as the Farming Pub- 

 lic. i)riven by our Double Power, it threshes and separ.-ites 

 from the straw from 150 to 200 bushels of Wheat, or twice 

 as much Oats, per day. For the Single or One Horse 

 Power we make a smaller Thresher and Separator, which 

 threshes from 75 to llK) bushels of Wheat per day. The 

 small Maehine is adapted to moderate sized farms, an<i as 

 the Singh! Power is .sufficient for sawing wood, chuniing, 

 cutting stidks, straw, &c., and driving almost every kind of 

 Machine used by Farmers, and is capable, by changing 

 horses and elevating the Power properly, of threshing 

 much fasli-r than we stated above, it is a very poi)ular Ma- 

 chine in some sections. 



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