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MECHANICS. 



to another. A neat and convenient form is used in tlie 

 Buckeye Mower, represented in the accompanying cut, 

 (fig. 176) where the bar is folded over in front of the 

 driver's feet. 



In the mowing-machine, the cutting apparatus is nar- 

 row, causing the 

 newly cut grass to 

 fall evenly behind it, 

 covering the whole 



Fig. 177. 



surfoce 



'''^''}j:jk ground 



of the 

 The reap- 

 ing-machine is simi- 

 lar in construction, 

 with the addition of 

 a platform for hold- 



Kirb]/ lieaper, with Hand Hale. jj^cr the ffrain aS iti 



falls, as shown in the annexed figure of the Kirby machine, 

 changed to a reaper (fig. 177). 



This figure represents the reel, which is attached to, 

 and is worked by the machine, causing the grain, as it is 

 cut, to drop smoothly 

 upon the ^ platform. 

 When a sufiicient 

 quantity has collected 

 there, it is swept off 

 by the hand rake, and 

 is afterwards bound in 

 a sheaf. The annexed 

 cut exhibits the Cayu- 

 ga Chief, (an excellent Cayuga Chief Combined Mower and Reaper. 

 two-wheeled machine) as a reaper, in which the opera- 

 tion of hand-raking is distinctly represented. 



SELF-EAKING KEArEES. 



Mowing-machines need but one man for their man- 

 agement, who merely drives the horses that draw it. 



