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side, which two men work satisfactorily. That kind 

 of a harvester has been used a good deal with us. Two 

 men will cut and shock five to six acres a day with us 

 with one of those sleds, and they will lay in gavels to 

 be hauled away and there will be no difficulty in two 

 men cutting eight acres a day. I would rather cut 

 three acres of corn with one of these corn harvesters 

 and put it in the shock than to cut one acre the old 

 way. 



Me. Boyd : I have used the same implement that 

 Mr. MacMillan speaks of, and I couldn't get along 

 without it at all. It cuts two rows at a time with one 

 horse. 



Mr. Gurler : There is a machine made by D. F. 

 Osborne & Co., of Auburn, New York. I met Prof. 

 Koberts at Oshkosh lately and had some talk with 

 him about this machine. He is the father of it, really, 

 it is his idea. That machine cuts one row at a time, 

 and lifts it right onto a wagon driven alongside of it. 

 Prof. Koberts told me they had put a ton in three 

 minutes on to the wagon. You see, the wagon and 

 this machine run side by side. Prof. Koberts said that 

 a year ago last fall they cut sixty-five acres on their 

 farm there and had no trouble at all. Last fall I went 

 and bought an old second-hand Champion self-raking 

 reaper. I took it to the blacksmith shop and had a 

 foot and a half cut off the outside of the rake, and we 

 went along in the field just as fast as a team could 

 walk, and it worked first-rate. A strong wind the 

 same way you were going would make a little trouble, 

 but the only trouble we had was that the stalks, some 

 of them, tangled into this mechanism that carried the 

 rake, but by the driver watching and catching them out 

 we got along without any serious difficulty at all. 



