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How THE FARM PAYS. 



machine has no gears upon the driving wheels, and the rim of the 

 wheel is provided with lugs running lengthwise for the purpose of 

 preventing the machine from slipping down when working on sloping 

 ground. The cutting bar is made to tilt downwards to cut lodged 

 grass and there are several other valuable improvements in its con- 

 struction. It is made for one or two horses. 



The necessities of the grain growers have greatly stimulated the 

 inventive genius of the makers of reapers, and these machines, indis- 



pensable on farms where even twenty acres of grain are produced, 

 can now be procured so cheaply that every farmer who grows grain 

 must provide himself with one of them. For the larger grain growers 

 self-binding reapers, which not only cut the grain, but bind it into 

 sheaves and throw these off onto the ground to make room for the 

 next ones, are made; but upon smaller grain farms the ordinary 



