1862. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



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over the lodged grain, considerable of which fell 

 to its lot. The raking off was badly done. 



No. 10. This machine cut also in forty-four, 

 both the cutting and raking badly done, probably 

 set too high for the lodged grain. The raker 

 was not used to the platform, which he said was 

 too long to deliver to advantage. In the stand- 

 ing grain the cutting was good. 



No. 11. The same time with the two previous 

 machines ; very good work, and a very excellent 

 machine. 



No. 12. Time thirty-eight minutes; cut 5| 

 feet — good cutting but bad raking off. 



No. 13. Cut 6J feet ; cutting good but bun- 

 dles left in a circle and in bad shape for binding ; 

 faulf, fist driving, the team used being very 

 spirited. 



No. 14. Time sixty-four minutes, but cutting 

 and raking of the highest order, in all respects 

 the best laid bundles on the field. The platform 

 of this machine is one of the cosiest and best of 

 the hand raking reapers. This machine is all 

 ^ron and steel, is compact and strong. Taking it 

 all in all, it is one of, if not the very best hand 

 raking reaper on the ground. Its strength, ad- 

 justability, ease of draft, and above all, dura- 

 bility, places it high in the rank of reapers, 

 while as a mower, it is unexcelled. 



REAPERS NOT COMBINED. 



It is scarcely worth while to make a reaper 

 without a grass cutting arrangement, or a grass 

 cutter alone, as it is so seldom that they are ne- 

 ded W. A. Wood had on the ground a one-horse 

 mower, a well made, pretty machine, and which 

 did good work, but its cost is but little less than 

 a two horse machine, and as our farmers have 

 plenty of team, it is hardly worth while to loose 

 time with this. At the east where oxen are 

 largely used in farming, and but one horse kept 

 for odd work, this machine is all very well, but 

 for the west, of no particular value. The same 

 may be said of these reapers. The one com- 

 bined machine can do the work of both. It is 

 probable that a double gearing, like that of 

 Rugg's, would be valuable, and would add but 

 little to the cost. The entries in th's class were 

 well displayed. 



ISDEPENDFNT BEAPEBS. 



No. 1, D. M. Osborn & Co., Kirby hand-raker. 

 No. 2, Cline, Seiberling & Hower, " 



No. 3, Seymour, Morgan & Allen, " 



No. 4, "W. A. "Wood, " 



No. 5, C. H. McCormick, " 



Ny. 6, H. H. Taylor, (Buckeye) hand-raker. 



B^ the number of entries of self-rakers, it 

 will be seen that they are slowly yet surely 

 working their way to favor, and on this occasion 

 they attracted no inconsiderable attention, so 

 much so, that before the trial was through, to 

 save what little credit the Board had remaining 

 with the spectators, or rather a stampede to the 

 grounds, they were graciously permitted to come 

 into the stubble and look on, and closely watch 

 the progress of the work. Though full half of 

 the visitors had left for home, feeling as though 

 this was no place for them ; they had spent their 

 time and money to see a reaper and mower trial, 

 and to be treated with that respect which was 

 due them, but this reticent Board decided other- 

 wise, snubbed them in every possible manner, 

 and add to this, there was no accommodation 

 for them at the hotels, these being fitl, and the 

 citizens only intent on taking the quarters and 

 half dollars for passage to and from the grounds. 

 Hundreds of these farmers slept on the hotel 

 floors and roughed it as they could. No wonder 

 then their these numbers grew daily less, and a t 

 the last day, almost wholly ceased to form a part 

 of the programme. We have already described 

 the action of these machines as combined reap- 

 ers, and shall therefore pass on to — 



THE HEADERS. 



No. 1, Barber, Hawley & Co., (Haines) Pekin, 

 Illinois. 

 No. 2, J. C. & C. N. Mabury, White Rock, Hi. 

 No. 3, G. H. Rugg, Ottawa, III. 



These were put to work in the afternoon of the 

 fourth day, and to our surprise attracted very 

 little attention. They require seven men and 

 four span of horses, two span to run the header 

 and two span on waggons to take care of the cut 

 grain. This is left sixteen to twenty inches 

 long ; about twenty acres is cut in a day. Ex- 

 cept on very large farms, the outlay of capital is 

 too large to ever make these headers popular. 

 The evidence in regard to their value is very 

 conflicting. The Haines header did very excel- 

 lent work, though occupying a much longer 

 time than that of the Maybury. The grain is 

 taken up very clean when it stands up well, but 

 in lodged grain we observed a large loss. The 

 loaders on No. 2 wasted the grain by earless 

 handling, the machine doing good work. The 

 Rugg machine commenced work near the close 



