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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



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THE BUCKEYE MO"WER AIsTD REAITER. 



It becomes the farmer more than ever this year 

 to avail himself of every sort of labor-saving im- 

 plement that can be economically used. In con- 

 sequence of the withdrawal of so many laborers to 

 the army, there is a scarcity of help, and wages 

 are unusually high. There is no lack of bread- 

 stuffs or of beef and other meats, but it is certain- 

 ly prudent — while the nation is involved in war — 

 to raise at least as much of all the staple articles 

 of the farm as we ever have in any former year. 



Demand must continue to be great, while the 

 means of producing are greatly abridged. Let us, 

 then, call in to our aid whatever will relieve us of 

 human toil, and, at the same time, enable us to fill 

 our bams and gi-anaries with their accustomed sup- 

 plies. We shall yet have to feed, not onbj our loy- 

 al people, hut those who hate us and despitefuUy use 

 us, — men and women who are striving to crush 

 the best government that ever blessed mankind ! 



Among the prominent means of enabling us to 

 produce our usual amount of crops, is the Mower 

 and Reaper. Its use will so facilitate the secur- 

 ing of the hay and grain crops as to leave ample 

 time for tending the Indian corn, the fruit and the 

 root crops, and to bestow all that careful attention 

 upon our animals which they require, in order to 

 make a rapid and profitable growth. 



There are now before the public several kinds 

 of these machines, — some seven or eight of which 

 we have used in our own fields, and have given 

 them as fair a trial as we were able to. Mr. Hus- 

 SEY, of Baltimore, the inventor of the knife and its 

 peculiar motion, continued to construct new ma- 

 chines while he lived, and brought one to us an- 

 nually from his work-shops to test its value. Only 



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twenty-four hours before his death, we were en- 

 gaged with him in testing the last machine of his 

 construction. Very great improvements have been 

 made within the last two years, until we have now, 

 in the Buckeye, a machine that is satisfactory to 

 those who have given it a fair trial, and who do 

 not expect a machine to perform all the labor of 

 the farm. 



The beautiful cut of the Buckeye Mower, which 

 we here introduce, illustrates its power while mow- 

 ing the grass on the side of a bank, as will be seen 

 by the position of the scythe, and while the nigh 

 wheel is at the same moment passing over a rock ! 

 The Double-Hinged or flexible bar accommodates 

 itself to the surface of the ground, and the ma- 

 chine passes along without any straining of its 

 parts, even though one or both of the wheel^are 

 passing over obstructions at the same time ! There 

 is no other mower, in our knowledge, that will 

 perform such a service as this. 



There are three sizes of the Buckeye — 1, 2 and 

 3. No. 1 is the largest, No. 2 is called the "Ju- 

 nior," and No. 3, the One-Horse Machine. We 

 have rarely heard of the breaking of one of these 

 machines, and we believe that in compactness, 

 lightness of draft, excellence, and even elegance of 

 workmanship and finish — combined with strength 

 and adaptation to all kinds of work, — it surpasses 

 any mowing machine that has come to our knowl- 

 edge. Some have thought the Buckeye a little 

 heavier than is necessary, but experiments have 

 proved their weight to be the least which will com- 

 bine strength and durability with lightness. 



The engraving which we give above is spu'ited 

 and truthful, and suggests nothing that the ma- 

 chine is not abundantly able to perform. 



