1858.] SENATE— No. 4. 177 



called Danford's improved grass cutter, is an ingenious macliine. It 

 is light and simple, and does not seem likely to get out of order. 



A machine from Ohio, has its cutter arm attached by a hinge, by 

 which it may be readily applied to an uneven surface. ' 



A light, portable machine, which may be easily worked by the one 

 horse owned by most small farmers, is still a desideratum. 



As the machines here presented, together with many others, have 

 been recently subjected to a severe test by eminent men, who had the 

 most favorable opportunities to examine their actual working, under 

 different and various circumstances, and as your committee had no 

 opportunity whatever to test them, they decided to award no premium 

 to this class of machines. 



HoRsic-PowERs. — ^This machine may be profitably employed upon 

 farms to a much greater extent than it is at present. It may be 

 applied to the threshing and winnowing of grain, and the shelling of 

 corn. One machine may be made to do this description of work on 

 several farms. It may be used to cut the wood for family use, and 

 upon large farms, to cut the hay, corn-fodder and roots. The single 

 horse-power presented by Burt, Wright & Co., of Harvard, appeared 

 to your committee superior to any other examined. It runs with a 

 more uniform and even motion, avoiding the jerking motion so com- 

 mon in this class of machines, and so wearing to the horse. The 

 iron rail upon which the rollers traverse, describes the figure of an 

 elipse. By a slight deviation from the eliptic form, near the ends of 

 the elipse, the jerking motion is obviated. The gudgeons upon which 

 the rollers play, are furnished with a collar of chilled iron, which 

 prevents, in a great measure, the friction, and consequently the wear. 

 The Avhole machine appears to be faithfully made, and is very com- 

 pact and highly finished. 



Whitman's double horse-power, exhibited by Parker, While & Gan- 

 nett, is a valuable machine. It is faithfully manufactured, and seems 

 capable of great endurance. When applied to move the thresher and 

 grain-cleaner, or the portable saw mill, it may accomplish a vast 

 amount of woik. 



HorsE Hoes, Cultivators and Hakkows. — A great variety of 

 these implements were on exhibition, adapted to work of various 

 kinds. 



We saw no horse hoe superior to Knox's, presented by Nourse, 

 l^.Iason & Co. Mr. Knox probably believes that no instrument is so 

 suitable for stirring the s. il as the plough. In this implement he has 

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