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OFFICIAL REiROSPECTlVK IIXHIBITION 



No. 76. 



MOISSONNKUSH IvMri-OVEE PAR I.KS (;AU1-()1S. 



L'illustration ci-dessus est une photographie d'un modcle minia- 

 ture de la moissonneiisc employee par les anciens Gaulois en Tannee I. 

 Un homme, marchant a cote de la machine, avec un instrument en 

 forme de houe raclait dans une boite le grain amasse par les dents se 

 trouvant a I'avant de la machine. 



No. 77. 



(iLADsroNK r]:aping machine. 



In 1806 a Mr. (Gladstone, of England, produced a reaper having an 

 arrangement of parts for gathering, cutting, and delivering grain. Six 

 important features that are now found embodied in modern self-binding 

 harvesting machinery can be pointed out: 



1. It was supported upon two wheels. 



2. The machine was drawn by a horse walking beside the grain. 



3. The cut grain was delivered stubbleward. 



4. The machine was balanced upon wheels with a slight prejionder- 

 ance of weight forward. 



5. The cutting api)aratus was protected by forwardly extending 

 fingers; and 



6. The supporting wheels were placed substantially abreast and at 

 such a distance apart that the framework of the machine and its gearing 

 could be sustained between. 



In this machine the cutting apparatus was a wheel having a smooth 

 edge. Improvements were applied later, and sectional cutters used. 

 The cut grain was moved stubbleward by means of raking attachments 

 carried by the mechanism that rotated the cutting disk. This may be 

 said to have been a forerunner of self-raking reapers. The above illus- 

 tration is a photo-engraving of a miniature model. 



