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The Saxcho Pancha Wind Mill, 



Exhibited by Mr. J. D. West, of this city, for operating a pnmp, 

 "was also shown by a large model. Its peculiarity is in a weight 

 connected with the braces of the fans in such a way that a strong 

 wind turns their edge on so as to present no surface. In this respect 

 it is self-regulating. Its main use is for lifting water to the tops of 

 houses, barns and factories. It costs about $100. 



Prof. Tillman thought the self-adjusting boxes a valuable improve- 

 ment on the ordinary windmill. 



Peport of the Committee on the Kational Corn IIusker. 



The committee, consisting of S. Edwards Todd, chairman, J. B. 

 Lyman, W. S. Carpenter, A. B. Crandall, John Crane, and P. 

 Meeker, appointed by the club to examine the national corn-husking 

 machine, desire to submit the following report : This corn busker 

 may be driven by horse power, or turned by one or two men. The 

 corn-stalks, with the ears attached, are fed with the rollers, six or 

 more at once, just as stalks are fed into a fodder cutter, butt end first. 

 The ears, w^th a part of the husks, drop down in a hopper, and pass 

 sideways over a system of iron rollers, w^hich seize the husks and silk, 

 and strip the ears as neatly as it can be done by hand, at the rate of 

 one bushel per minute. Heretofore, corn buskers have been pro- 

 vided with India rubber rollers, or husking aprons, which did not 

 always operate as satisfactorily as the present machine, wdiich latter 

 is made of iron and wood, with only India rubber bearings. The 

 committee saw this machine husk an ear neatly, while the husks, at 

 the tip end, were tied on with a strong cord. If every alternate ear 

 were a small nubbin between large ears, twenty inches long, every 

 husk Avill be neatly removed. 



The committee found this national busker a valuable labor-saving 

 machine, as durable as a threshing machine, and not liable to be 

 deranged in any of its parts, by the carelessness of unskilled laborers. 



" An important point of transcendent importance in the operation 

 of this husker is, that it separates and assorts the bright and most 

 valuable husks fi*om the weather-beaten and worthless ones, the 

 former being delivered beneath the machine, and the latter car- 

 ried between the rollers with the stalks, to which they are still 

 attached. As the stalks pass between the rollers, numerous gashes 

 are cut in one side of the larger butts, which, together with the crush- 

 ing of those parts that are filled with sap and water, greatly facili- 



