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onto the market with sufficient energy to convince the farmer of its 

 practicability. His demonstration of the practicability of the invention 

 soon led other manufacturers to adopt it. 



[Signed] "John F. Appleby." 



Mr. Applebv's judgment directed him to adapt his automatic binder 

 to work upon a Marsh harvester, and the Marsh harvester manufacturers 



were first tc believe that automatic 



binders could be carried to the 



necessary degree of perfection. 



The Appleby patents were 

 at once recognized, and their 

 validity was never questioned. 



Mr. Appleby placed his needle 

 beneath the binding receptacle, 

 and his knotting devices above; 

 he placed packing fingers each 

 side of the needle, and so shaped 

 the latter that when moved up- 

 ward in the operation of binding 

 the bundle of grain, it served as 

 a stop to check the flow while the 

 bundle was being bound. He 

 placed discharge arms over the 

 receptacle in such a manner that 

 the bundle, when completed, 

 would be ejected. The grain was 

 not only packed into the recep- 

 tacle, but while being bound was 

 suitably compressed, in order that 

 a tight bundle might be the result. 

 It is not necessary to devote 

 space to anything descriptive of the Appleby binder, for it may be seen 

 on nearly every farm, and its principles may be studied in nearly every 

 automatic self-binder known. 



No. 63. 



LIEUSE APPLEBY. 



On 1858, un rude g-arcon de TOuest, ag-e de 18 ans, g"ag"nait sa vie 

 en travaillant pour les fermiers. Son patron avail achete une nouvelle 

 moissonneuse, et le garcon, avec la curiosite innee d'un tnecanicien, 

 attendait la mise en marche, son devoir etant de lier le grain au fur 

 et a mesure que la machine avancait. La machine comraenca bien et 

 le fermier enchante lui demanda ce qu'il en pensait. Le garcon repli- 

 qua qu'elle travaillait bien, mais qu'il croyait pouvoir faire unelieuse; 

 son patron se moqua de lui. II lui sembla que la ficelle serait le 

 meilleur materiel pour le lien, et avant la fin de Tannee le noueur, 

 montre dans I'illustration ci-dessus — le prototype du noueur Appleby, 

 qui none les neuf dixiemes du grain cultive dans le monde civilise — 

 fut fait. Le garcon avait herite des gouts mecaniques; mais I'esprit 

 de patriotisme Pemporta a un tel point qu'il repondit a I'appel de son 



