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ing apparatus located in the rear of the cutters, from whence the 

 products are carried to a cleaner, which separates the grain from 

 the chaff, the latter being scattered on the ground, while the 

 former is delivered into bags, which are tied up ready to send to 

 market. It will be apparent from this description of its opera- 

 tion, that this machine effects — and that in a most perfect man- 

 ner — the operations that are now performed by three distinct 

 machines, at a great saving in the cost of the apparatus, the labor 

 of attendance, and the time required for the piu-pose — the latter 

 being generally the most important item of the three, as a crop 

 of grain may be lost, or at least materially injured, by being ex- 

 posed to stormy and unpleasant weather, through the delay inci- 

 dent to its being gathered by the process at present in use. 



The machine is propelled by a team attached to a shaft jointed 

 to the hinder part of its platform, and it is guided by an attendant 

 operating a steering wheel connected to the hind truck wheels, 

 so that it is readily' con,trolied and guided, and it effects its ope- 

 rations with less power, and by the attendance of a less number of 

 hands than would be required to effect the same operations sepa- 

 rately, as four horses and three men will operate a machine cutting 

 nine feet in width, and traveling over an area of twenty-five acres 

 per day — delivering the grain grown upon that quantity of land in 

 a state ready for market. 



The question, whether it is more profitable to the farmer to 

 harvest his grain in a green or a perfectly ripe state, is yet a mooted 

 one; but it is claimed by the inventor of this machine, that the 

 grain when fully ripe, not only weighs heavier — to the benefit 

 of the producer — but possesses a greater amount of nutritious 

 matter — to the adv^tage of the user : that it is less liable to 

 waste in gathering, and leaves the straw of greater value, whe- 

 ther it is gathered for use or left in the field to rot for manure. 

 The correctness of these assumptions can be best tested by expe- 

 rience; but we believe they are in the main correct, and will be 

 proved to be so by extended experiment. 



Portable Hand Power Machines^ for felling timber^ sawing 



logs, ^c. 



Farmer's and Mechanic's Manufacturing Co., Green Poi't, LJ. Tlie 

 company claim for this improvement, that by its extreme portability, 

 simplicity and strength, is is fitted to render important aid incut- 

 ting down trees. It cuts close to the ground, thus saving wood, 

 may be adjusted so as to cut at almost any angel, leaves the butt ready 

 for the mill, does its work with great rapidity, runs easy, cannot 

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