140 GRASS SEED HEADER AND HARVESTER— IMPROVED HAY FORK. 



STEADMAN S GRAIN AND GRASS SEED UEADER AND HARVESTER. 



GKAIN AND GRASS SEED HEADER AND HARVESTER. 



We herewith present our readers with an engra- 

 ving descriptive of a new and improved clover, tim- 

 othy, and other grass or grain seed header and har- 

 vester, which for simplicity in construction, efficiency 

 of action, and facility of management, we think can 

 not easily be surpassed. As will be seen by the cut, 

 it is drawn by one horse, which walks outside of the 

 part of the field intended to be harvested. Turning 

 continually to the right, it cuts equally as well when 

 turning a corner, as when going straight ahead. The 

 seed heads are gathered by the comb, cut off by the 

 revolving knives, and by a self-raking apparatus at- 

 tached, thrown to the rear end of the box. By de- 

 taching the intermediate gearing wheel, it is imme- 

 diately converted into a three-wheeled wagon, and 

 can be driven wherever wished. By pressing down 

 one or both of the levers shown on the rear end of 

 the box, one or both sides of the comb and cutter 

 may be lowered or elevated at pleasure. The pecu- 

 liarity of the machine is that it cuts and saves only 

 the heads of the grain or seed, and by an extra pair 

 of wheels, it can be applied to the gathering and 

 harvesting of any kind of grain or grass seed. It 

 will cut from eight to twelve acres per day with ease. 

 AH the bolts in the machine are in sight with but one 

 exception, and any common blacksmith or mechanic 

 can repair.it, if by accident it should get out of or- 

 der. The above is the invention of Mr. T. S. Stead 

 MAN, of Holley, Orleans county, N. Y., to whom com- 

 munications as to the sale of rights and machines 

 can be addressed. 



Price of machine, with extra set of gearing wheels 

 and cutters, #50. 



To Keep Lettdce. — If the tops of lettuce be cut 

 off when it is becoming too old for use it will grow 

 up again fresh and tender, and may thus be kept good 

 through the summer. 



IMPROVED HAY FORK 



Much is said about economy, and yet how mam 

 there are who seem to think that economy consists li 

 this : never buy an improved instrument or utensi 

 while the old one will answer, though it may be cum 

 brous and ill-adapted to the work on hand. Ever 

 ounce of unnecessary weight in a hoe-handle, or ii 

 the body of the hoe, continually lifted by the laborei 

 as it is, amounts to many hundred weights in a day ;- 

 every pound of useless iron in a plow or harrow, whe 

 multiplied by the minute.^, and hours, and days it he 

 been used, is so much muscular exertion lost; and ( 

 all kinds of labor, the labor of a living machine 

 the dearest. Why, then, do not our tillers of tl 

 soil study to economise labor more than they dc 

 and by the use of a little head-work abridge the s 

 verity and degree of the hard work which must 1 

 done on the farm? 



The above thoughts were suggested to ug whi 

 witnessing the ease and facility with which blocks 

 ice three feet square and sixteen inches thick we 

 hoisted to an elevation of sixteen or twenty feet, ai 

 thence slid on properly adjusted slides to their i 

 spective places. A rope and two pulleys furnishi 

 all the machinery necessary for the application of a 

 imal labor to lifting of the masses of ice. The du 

 of the workman was not to lilt the ice, but merely 

 attach the hooks and start the horse, which was t 

 prime mover in this case; and when the requisite e 

 vation had been attained, the word whoa gave oppi 

 tunity for those above to detach the ice-book ; ai 

 thus the process was repeated for hour after hour. : 

 Now, the labor of mowing away hay in a hot sui 

 mer afternoon, in the close and dusty space usual 

 allotted for its safe keeping, is work of the hardt 

 kind, and of that description, too, which tries t 

 sinews of a man, and sometimes lays the foundati 

 for serious diseases. The labors of the hay and h: 

 vest fields are arduous and severe at the best ; a 



